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Download full textKelly, Karen; Empson, Gwen – 1999
Currently, women represent 30 percent of the drug-abusing population but are entering the prison system at a rate two times that of men. How can practitioners meet the pressing needs of offender women in treatment, prisons, and jails through the 1990s and the millennium? The correctional environment poses special advocacy challenges. The role of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Correctional Rehabilitation, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation
