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Gendered Inconsiderations of Carceral Space

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Of the 1.3 million women in the United States under criminal supervision in 2017, approximately 117,000 were housed in jails (The Sentencing Project, Incarcerated women and girls, 2019). The physical environment in which jail residents live drastically impacts their daily routines, accessibility to services, and feelings of safety and security. Considering most jails in the United States are binarily sex-segregated and house significantly more men than women, the gendered nature of these facilities is particularly apparent in the purposive design of these facilities. For women, the design of a facility may act as a barrier to getting their needs met because facilities are not constructed to specifically meet their needs which differ in number and types from the needs of men. Using a case study of one jail, this chapter will dissect how the carceral space, layout, and design of the facility makes it challenging to ensure the needs of women are met through connections to educational programming and health services. In this way, architectural decisions are direct reflections of the purposes and goals of a correctional facility (Wener, The environmental psychology of prisons and jails: Creating humane spaces in secure settings, 2012), which in this chapter is argued to be both non-rehabilitative in nature and gendered at its core.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term jail refers to a correctional facility where those individuals awaiting a trial or being held for minor crimes (i.e., misdemeanours) are confined.

  2. 2.

    Only one woman was low security-level among this group of women who had not completed a programme; the rest were high security-level women.

  3. 3.

    To designate residents as “keep separates” means to classify two women as needing to be kept away, physically, from one another due to various reasons such as being co-defendants, being in a relationship, or having been in an verbal argument or physical altercation.

  4. 4.

    In the jail of study, jail residents wear orange if they are considered high security-level.

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Smith, L. (2023). Gendered Inconsiderations of Carceral Space. In: Moran, D., Jewkes, Y., Blount-Hill, KL., St. John, V. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11972-9_20

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