William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Abstract
This veteran correctional administrator reviews the explosion of numbers of female offenders confined in the United States today. The article explores the myriad causes and effects of this shift in public policy and notes the negative impact of today's policy outcomes on individual offenders, correctional systems, and our society. The author argues for a modification of policy to a more rational approach to judicial sentencing.
Repository Citation
Peter M. Carlson, Public Policy, Women, and Confinement: A Plea for Reasonableness, 14 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 245 (2008), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol14/iss2/3
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