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Beginning in the summer of 2021, Inscoe tried to increase pressure on N.C. Department of Public Safety officials to address her complaints about treatment by inmates and guards and to approve her ...
Todaro v. Ward argued that women within a New York prison did not have adequate, constitutional access to healthcare. Since Todaro v. Ward was the first major court case that called into question incarcerated women's actual access to health care, it spurred organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Correctional Association, and the American Public Health Association to ...
This prison and the North Piedmont Correctional Center for Women were to be closed because of a decline in the number of female prisoners. [4] The women were to be moved to the North Carolina Eastern Correctional Institution in Maury, which was to be converted into a women's facility. [5] Fountain closed in December 2014. [6]
A court order requiring North Carolina prison officials to move transgender inmate Ashlee Inscoe to a women’s prison has been temporarily put on hold, after officials said they would appeal the ...
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW) is the primary North Carolina Department of Public Safety prison facility housing female inmates on a 30-acre (12 ha) campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a support facility for the six other women's prisons throughout the state. The facility's inmate population, which is the ...
In September 2021, Inscoe took prison officials to court, filing a lawsuit seeking an order compelling her transfer to a women’s prison. That ruling was handed down Tuesday by Wake County ...
Despite about 60% of pregnant women in U.S. prisons having a history of substance abuse, less than half of the correctional systems in the U.S. utilize programs specifically designed for these women. In North Carolina, 36% of female inmates used illegal drugs, with cocaine being the most prevalent substance. Another study reported that nine out ...
Contraception is a major issue of women’s reproductive health. 86% of sexually active women practice some form of contraception and 30% of these women use a hormonal form of contraception. [10] Women in the U.S. have more freedoms in deciding their use of contraceptives among other global nations, comparatively.