She also mentions family-like survival structures created by women inmates of concentration camps.
According to artist Kay Brown, "the women inmates loved expressing themselves creatively in classes with professional black women artists.
The program, which could have helped curb rising jail populations, would have been limited to women inmates within two weeks of completing their sentences.
The total capacity of women inmates was highest in Tamil Nadu (1,569).
The Michigan prison system has been the subject of extensive press coverage and outside scrutiny for allegations of sexual assaults against women inmates.
A federal lawsuit brought by women inmates in 1996 remains unresolved.
It thus offers unique insights into the different tactics of psychic survival chosen by men and women inmates.
Its location at 10 Greenwich Avenue gave the women inmates an opportunity to try to communicate with people walking by.
Their investigation revealed that the States present facilities for women inmates were inadequate and unsatisfactory.
It was the first mass release of battered women inmates in this country, advocates of abused women said.