Her Caribbean Blues: The Female Prison Experience by Melvina T Sumter in SJPBS in Lupinepublishers
In recent history, women were considered the “forgotten offenders.”
However, a number of global-political changes have led to
an increase in the female prison population; subsequently, this
population has become the focus of considerable research. Even so,
little inquiry has examined how females experience prison, as well an
examination of the female prison experience in developing
countries, where the penal culture is significantly different from the
U.S., is even more limited. Conversely, both classic and
contemporary prison studies have well documented the social world of
male offenders, particularly how males experience prison
and the perils of imprisonment. This exploratory study examines the ways
women in a Caribbean nation experience prison and the
challenges they encounter while in prison. Findings indicate that the
women faced multiple changes, however, two broad challenges
related to their incarceration were prominent. These included the threat
of losing pieces of their social identity and trying to cope
with a penal culture that threatened to reshape how these women viewed
themselves.
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