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19 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj19 and id is 1 raw text is: Women & CriminalJustice, 19:1-36, 2009 Routledge Copyright () Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Taylor& Francis Group ISSN: 0897-4454 print/1541-0323 online DOI: 10.1080/08974450802586802 The Impact Imprisonment has on Women's Health and Health Care from the Perspective of Female Inmates in Kansas JANICE PROCTOR Department of Sociology/Criminology, Ohio University-Eastern Campus, St. Clairsville, Ohio, USA This multimethod study, conducted at the Topeka Correctional Facility during the summers of2001, 2002, and 2003, investigated the impact of imprisonment on women's health and health care. The researcher bypothesized that 3 independent constructs (a) extended strain, (b) level of bealth care received either before or during incarceration, and (c) detrimental social structural influences could predict the health status offemale inmates prior to and during incarceration. Multiple regression analyses con- ducted on 1 survey sample of 120 inmates revealed that only health care prior to incarceration and extended strain contributed signifi- cantly to explaining the inmates' self-perceived health status prior to and during incarceration. When life history interviews with 22 inmates were examined to determine inmates' perceptions of their health status and the health care they had received, prior to and during their imprisonment, qualitative results revealed inmates expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of bealth care received in prison, as well as the manner in which it was administered. KEYWORDS women offenders health care, women's imprisonment health care, women's incarceration bealth care INTRODUCTION A multimethod study was conducted at the Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF) during the summers of 2001, 2002, and 2003 to discover what causes Address correspondence to Janice Proctor, PhD, Department of Sociology/Criminology, Ohio University, Eastern Campus, 45425 National Road, St. Clairsville, OH 43950. E-mail: proctoj@ ohio.edu