Argumentative Essay On Women In Prison

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Millions of women in the United States are incarcerated due to the crimes many of them committed. There are roughly 2.2 million people in the U.S. prison system most of whom are men, but with a rapidly increasing female population (Wolfe). Women in prison usually have different problems than a male figure going to prison because of their sex. Many of these women deserve to be in prison because they have broken the law, and yes prison is not supposed to be a fun place for anyone who has broken the law. However, the abuse and the cruel punishment that many women go through while incarcerated is absolutely not right and unfair to all women. Women incarcerated are affected in so many different ways than men in prison such as, women being pregnant, horrible health conditions, and sexual abuse from guards in prison. Every day many women enter the jail system pregnant or with children already at home (Wolfe). While pregnant women are in jail there are not treated any different …show more content…

In prison, access to treatment is limited, the care that the inmates get is pedestrian, and most of the time prison medical professionals are not very skilled. “In 2002 approximately 37% of state and prisons inmates reported having a current medical condition. The most common medical conditions reported were arthritis (13%), hypertension, or more commonly known as high blood pressure (11%), asthma (10%), heart difficulties (6%) and kidney difficulties (4%). 34% of inmates also reported having some kind of physical impairment, including learning disabilities, speech impediments, hearing impairment or loss, vision or mobility impairment or loss” (Conroy). Women in prison are most likely to report having a type of cancer in prison. The most common types of cancer for women were cervical cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer, while for men the most common types were skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer and colon cancer

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