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Locked Up,Then Locked Out |
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| Abstract: | SUMMARY Women prisoners face tremendous psychological, emotional, and physical hardships inside prison. These include isolation, separation from their families and children, lack of medical care and general abuse of their basic human rights. When they are released from prison, women confront institutional as well as psychological barriers to a successful return to their communities |
| Keywords: | Re-entry women and courts women and trial women and sentencing prison time families of prisoners family reunification parental rights child custody homelessness housing voting rights and prison |