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Correction officers generally prefer to work in men's prisons, this tendency is closely linked with gendered perceptions of male and female inmates. Additionally, officers often subscribe to idea that working in a men's prison is 'real work' whereas women's prisons allow for less enforcement and less serious work.
Chronic fatigue with a known cause is twice as common as idiopathic chronic fatigue. [6] Idiopathic chronic fatigue affects between 2.4% and 6.42% of patients, [26] with females more likely to be affected than men. [1] Age at onset is typically over 50 years of age. [13]
Black women have the highest incarceration rates among women and are at a higher risk of getting a disease. [3] To get information on the effects the researcher used the Health and Retirement Survey which is a representative survey of people who are over 50 in the United States and had a sample of 11,883 people.
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People in prison are more likely than the general United States population to have received a mental disorder diagnosis, and women in prison have higher rates of mental illness and mental health treatment than do men in prison. Furthermore, women in prisons are three times more likely than the general population to report poor physical and ...
Dating app giant Hinge has set aside $1 million to facilitate in-person dating events to combat the US’s ongoing loneliness epidemic. The money will go to a social fund sponsoring groups ...
Older prisoners arguably age faster than their cohorts on the outside of the institution as a direct result of chronic, long-term diseases and a history more accustomed to drug and alcohol abuse. 8.6 percent of the total U.S. prison population is age 50 or older, and the average age for those considered to be older prisoners is 57. [1]
More than 130 women who were formerly inmates at prisons for women in California have filed suit, saying guards sexually abused them. 'Every woman's worst nightmare': Lawsuit alleges widespread ...