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| Female inmates focus of House prison-reform measure |
| By pantagraph.com- Edith Brady-Lunny |
| Published: 05/02/2017 |
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SPRINGFIELD — The movement to improve conditions for the 2,500 women housed in Illinois' two female prisons is advancing with passage of a House bill that would create a women's services division in the Department of Corrections to oversee the unique needs of women, most of whom were abused before they arrived at the prison door. The Women's Correctional Services Division would provide senior level oversight of programs at the Decatur and Logan County correctional centers and the parole division that supervises women after prison. Deanne Benos, a former assistant director of IDOC who later founded the Women's Justice Initiative, said the legislation that now moves to the Senate would help the prison system address issues outlined in the Gender Informed Practice Assessment (GIPA), a study conducted last year of the Logan County prison. Read More. |
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