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| New Programs Made Specifically for Women in RI Prisons |
| By projo.com |
| Published: 02/16/2010 |
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CRANSTON — It was a shining moment for the three dozen women who gathered in the Dorothea Dix Building last week to receive certificates and commendations for their academic accomplishments, graduate equivalency degrees and community college course completions. “For some,” Women’s Unit Warden Carole Dwyer said of the recipients, all dressed in their pine-green prison garb, “this is the first thing they have graduated from.” The all-female nature of the group was a sign of a new approach in the Corrections Department to develop rehabilitation programs for women. In the past few years, more and more prisons, which in the past may have taken the vocational and drug-counseling programs in the men’s units and transplanted them into the women’s units, have begun to redesign their approaches specifically for female inmates. Drug counseling in particular is being reexamined, said Dr. Fredric C. Friedman, clinical director of behavioral and mental health at the Adult Correctional Institutions. Women’s programs need to be more relationship driven, he said, because of the different ways women and men develop socially. Read More. |
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