THE FEMALE OFFENDER-1979-80
SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS
THE FEMALE OFFENDER-1979-80
Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman
JACK BROOKS, Texas
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin
DON EDWARDS, California
JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
JOHN F. SEIBERLING, Ohio
GEORGE E. DANIELSON, California
ROBERT F. DRINAN, Massachusetts
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN, New York
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky
WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey
SAM B. HALL, JR., Texas
LAMAR GUDGER, North Carolina
HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri
HERBERT E. HARRIS II, Virginia
MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma
ROBERT T. MATSUI, California
ABNER J. MIKVA, Illinois
MICHAEL D. BARNES, Maryland
RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama
ROBERT MCCLORY, Illinois
TOM RAILSBACK, Illinois
HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York
M. CALDWELL BUTLER, Virginia
CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California
JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio
HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois
THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio
HAROLD S. SAWYER, Michigan
DAN LUNGREN, California
F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin
JOSEPH L. NELLIS, General Counsel
GARNER J. CLINE, Staff Director
FRANKLIN G. POLK, Associate Counsel
SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin, Chairman
GEORGE E. DANIELSON, California ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky LAMAR GUDGER, North Carolina ROBERT T. MATSUI, California ABNER J. MIKVA, Illinois
TOM RAILSBACK, Illinois
CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California HAROLD S. SAWYER, Michigan
BRUCE A. LEHMAN, Chief Counsel
TIMOTHY A. BOGGS, Professional Staff Member
GAIL HIGGINS FOGARTY, Counsel
MICHAEL J. REMINGTON, Counsel
THOMAS E. MOONEY, Assistant Counsel
JOSEPH V. WOLFE, Associate Counsel
Carlson, Norman A., Director, Bureau of Prisons...
Taylor, Patricia P., Assistant Director, Community Women's Programs,
Ď.C. Department of Corrections.--.
Turnbo, Charles, warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Pleasanton,
Calif..
Williams, Jean Delores Dockery, inmate, Washington, D.C.-
APPENDIX 1-SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS OF WITNESSES
(d) Robert L. Brutsché, M.D., Asst. Surg. Gen., USPHS,
and Med. Dir., BOP, summary of Medical Care
Program, F.C.I. Alderson, dated Oct. 5, 1979.----
A. Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Dept. of Justice (BOP)-Continued
(1) BOP, Task Force Report-Continued
(e) Norman A. Carlson, Dir., BOP, letter to Hon. Robert
W. Kastenmeier, Chairman, House Judiciary Sub-
committee on Court, Civil Liberties, and the Ad-
ministration of Justice, dated Dec. 19, 1979, and
enclosing Follow-up Report, Evaluation of F.C.I.
Alderson Medical Services, by Dr. Brutsché, dated
Dec. 18, 1979. -
(f) BOP, Follow-up Report to Evaluation of F.C.I.
Alderson Medical Services (by Hania W. Ris, M.D.,
June 30, 1978), dated Feb. 9, 1981...
(3) BOP, Female Psychiatric Unit Task Force: Report, dated
April 11 and 12, 1979.
(4) James L. Beck, Ph.D., "Finding a Job: The Post-release Em-
ployment of Federal Parolees, Vocational Training Evalua-
tion Interim Report, BOP: Office of Research, Sept. 18, 1978-
(5) BOP, Security Designation and Custody Classification Manual
(P.S. 5100.1), July 14, 1980--
(6) BOP, Federal Prison Service Task Force: Report on Family
Visitation, Dec. 1980--
(7) BOP, Alderson Feasibility Study:
(a) H.R. Rept. 96-873, Part 1, 96th Cong., 2d Sess.,
House Comm. on the Judiciary, dated April 14, 1980.
(Excerpt, 17, 18)
(b) Kevin D. Rooney, Asst. Atty. Gen. for Admin., U.S.
Dept. of Justice, letter to Chairman Peter W.
Rodino, Jr., dated Dec. 31, 1980, and enclosing
Report to Congress, "Feasibility Study of Alterna-
tive Uses for the F.C.I. Alderson, W. Va".
B. Jane Roberts Chapman, Summary Report: Criminal Justice Programs
for Women Offenders (The Center for Women Policy Studies), 1979--
C. Judith Resnik and Nancy Shaw, "Prisoners of Their Sex: Health Prob-
lems of Incarcerated Women," Vol. II, Prisoners' Rights Sourcebook
(Edited and Compiled by Ira P. Robbins, Clark Broadman Co., Ltd.),
1980, 319-413.......
APPENDIX 2-GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
A. GAO, Staff Study, "Female Offenders: Who Are They, and What Are
the Problems Confronting Them?" (GGD-79-73) Aug. 23, 1979--
B. GAO, Comptroller General, Report to the Congress of the United
States, "Women in Prison: Inequitable Treatment Requires Action,'
(GGD-81-6) Dec. 10, 1980...
APPENDIX 3-ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MATERIALS
(1) Maryann Bird, "The Women in Prison: No Escape from
Stereotyping," The New York Times, June 23, 1979,
(Style), 14.
(2) Clarice Feinman, "Sex Role Stereotypes and Justice for
Women," Crime and Delinquency, Jan. 1979, 87-94---
(3) Institution Education Services, Inc., Prison Law Monitor,
"Women in Prison Issue," Vol. 2, No. 4 (Sept. 1979). (Sever-
al articles below are excerpted from this issue.)
(a) Joan Potter, "Women in Prison".
(b) James L. Potts, "Prisoners Forum: Aspects of Life in
a Women's Prison".
(c) "Damage Action(s): Women Awarded $4,000 Dam-
ages for Forced Disrobing in Presence of Male
Guards as Being Cruel and Unusual Punishment"-
(d) "Visiting Regulation Barring Children From Visit-
ing Parents in Jail Unconstitutional".
A. General-Continued
(3) Institution Education Services, Inc.-Continued
(e) "Bibliography: Major Studies on Female Offenders"-
(f) Judith Magid, Esq., "Glover v. Johnson: Totality
Litigation Against Womens Institutions".
Ilene R. Bergsmann, "The Federal Female Offenders"-
"International Symposium on the Female Offender".
"Breed Cites Sexism in Corrections".
(j) Carole Shapiro, "The N. Y.U. Womens Prison Project
at Bedford Hills".
(k) Victoria Webb, "The Lifers Club, Tenn. Prison for
Women"
(1) Stephen Angell, "Death Row Women".
(4) National Commission of the Observance of International
Women's Year, Female Offenders: A Workshop Guide,
Excerpt of "Fact Sheet, Female Offenders," 1977.
(5) President's Advisory Committee for Women, Voices for
Women, 1980. (Excerpted on Female Offenders, 108-112,
117.)_
(6) Eileen Ogintz, "Railsback Asks Inquiry on Women in Prison,"
Chicago Tribune, Aug. 13, 1980--
(7) Laurel L. Rans, "Women's Crime: Much Ado About .
42 Feb. Prob. (No. 1), March 1978, 45-49_-.
(8) Celeste L. Rice, Program Dir., Ananda Marga Resource Cen-
ter, Inc., Madison, Wisc., letter and enclosures to Hon.
Robert W. Kastenmeier, dated Nov. 5, 1979.
(9) Sr. Margaret Ellen Traxler, SSND, Dir., Institute of Women
Today, Chicago, Ill., letter to Hon. Robert W. Kasten-
meier, dated Dec. 18, 1979, with enclosures on Women's
Conference on Human Rights and Mission (Venice, June 24-
30, 1979)-
(10) U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Standards for Prisons and Jails,
Dec. 19, 1980. (Excerpted).
(11) United Nations, Sixth U.N. Congress on the Prevention of
Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Resolution on
Women Offenders, approved by the Congress (plenary ses-
sion), Sept. 5, 1980...
B. F.C.I. Alderson (W. Va.):
(1) Stephen W. Angell, and others, National Moratorium on Prison
Construction, letter to Hon. Robert Kastenmeier, dated
March 10, 1979.-
(2) Dyeatra Carter, Long Termers Committee, F.C.I. Alderson,
"Long Termers-Lifers Proposal," Feb. 1979..
(3) Richard C. Dieter, Alderson Hospitality House, Alderson,
W. Va., Statement to the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil
Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, dated Oct. 23,
1979, and enclosures_-
C. Women Offenders from Washington, D.C.:
(1) Correspondence between D.C. State Fed. of Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Clubs and D.C. Officials:
(a) Alice A. Booher, Pres., D.C. State Fed. of Bus. and
Prof. Women's Clubs, letter to Hon. Marion Barry,
Jr., Mayor, D.C., dated Oct. 14, 1980----
(b) Norman A. Carlson, Dir., Fed. Prison System, letter
to Alice A. Booher, dated Oct. 17, 1980--
(c) Norman A. Carlson, letter to Alice A. Booher, dated
Oct. 20, 1980__
(d) Arrington Dixon, Chairman, Council of the District
of Columbia, letter to Alice A. Booher, dated
Oct. 20, 1980__
(e) David A. Clarke, Member, Council of the District of
Columbia, letter to Alice Booher, dated Nov. 28,
1980.
(2) Jill MacNeice, "D.C. Women in a District Jail," The Wash-
ington Post, Sept. 25, 1980, (The District Weekly) 1, 2----
(3) Sr. Mary McGowan, S.C., letter to Hon. Robert W. Kas-
tenmeier, dated Oct. 18, 1979.
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