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NEWS
Female Officers Needing Assistance
- Female CO
of the Year in Butte County, CA, Battling
Cancer.
Read More
and
Help
Her...
IAWIC E-News
- For the
most recent E-News for Female Correctional
Officers,
Click Here
- For the
most recent E-News for Spouses of
Correctional Officers,
Click Here
IAWIC Press
Releases
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IAWIC
expresses outrage over training
booklet for female correctional
officers in NY.
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Female Officers Assaulted
- Female CO
assaulted in Connecticut.
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Interesting Articles
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Nontraditional Women: Female Jail
Guards Meet The Challenge
(Note
this is the media headline. The IAWIC
is strongly opposed to Professional
Correctional Officers being referred to as
Prison or Jail Guards and will work to
educate the media and public on this issue).
Read More...
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For women only: The NY Department
of Correctional Services Academy
distributes a booklet advising female
correctional officers to avoid
gossiping at work,
being too bossy at home and to eat
ice cream to avoid burnout! Unbelievable!
Read
More...
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Zahra Hadi, a 28-year-old Baghdad mother, is the first female to get a job as an Iraqi
corrections officer. There are no female
police in Iraq. Her salary is around $70 a month. Read More...
Sexual Harassment
U.S.
Department of Justice Reports on Corrections
Recently Released
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HIV
in Prisons, 2005 NCJ 218915, 8 pp.)
provides the number of HIV-infection and
confirmed AIDS cases in state and federal
prisoners during 2005. It includes the
number of AIDS-related deaths, a profile of
inmates who died, and the number of
prisoners who were HIV infected or had
confirmed AIDS, and compares confirmed AIDS
rates to the general and prisoner
populations. (BJS)
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Sexual Victimization
In State And Federal Prisons Reported By
Inmates, 2007. Presents
data from the National Inmate Survey (NIS),
2007, conducted in 146 State and Federal
prisons between April and August 2007, with
a sample of 23,398 inmates.
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Helping Inmates Obtain
Federal Disability Benefits.
Examines three programs--one in Texas, one
in Philadelphia, and one in New York--that
help inmates prepare and file prerelease
applications for federal disability benefits
so they can continue to receive treatment
without interruption after they are released
from prison or jail. (NIJ)
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