Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #20 - Scholarly Reflections on Core Considerations for Correctional Practice| Article 12 (ACJ20-A012)

Decades of robust research clearly establishes that caring for incarcerated loved ones adds considerable stress, anxiety, and hardship to women’s lives, with important implications for their health and wellbeing. Although incarceration is a complex and multi-systemic issue, correctional systems can enact concrete strategies to ease this burden and help protect women’s health. These include facilitating communications between women and their incarcerated loved ones, providing ways for women to know that their loved one is safe and well, making visitation more family-friendly and supportive of health-promoting activities, and removing financial barriers to staying in touch with loved ones.

 

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