Time on the Inside: Behind the Walls in a Maximum Security Women's Prison, from an Insider's View

Why Are So Many Women Going To Prison? What Goes On Inside If You Are One Of Them?

Since the early 1980s, the California Department of Corrections — CDC has been involved in the largest prison building program in the United States. The CDC Master Plan predicts that the growing inmate population will exceed close too 180,000 by 2010 from its current inmate population of over 165,000. The last CDC population’s projections were done in spring 2005 which show women currently make up 14% of this amount with over 12,000 women in prison today as opposed to the 8,000, 10 years ago when I left. With so many women suffering from mental, physical and emotional abuse from all walks of life, which have plagued them into criminal behavior that stems back to the age of 12 for some, it doesn’t surprise me that the CDC projection for 2006 will increase to 13,500 over 12% within one year. When you compound that with the average yearly inmate cost of $31,000 and the Prison Industry Association—PIA which profits from Major U.S. Companies while using cheap prison labor too make their goods, you have a multi-million dollar industry that doesn’t help too rehabilitate individuals that ultimately want change, as many come out and go right back in because the system is not set-up too rehabilitate nor does the system provide adequate healthcare that has resulted in inhumane conditions and treatment which has led to many deaths of women who knew they were given time on the inside and expected to be released back into society, not a morgue. In reading "TIME ON THE INSIDE", you’ll discover: "Why more women are going to prison today more than ever"—"Why the Penal System promotes comfortability rather than rehabilitation"—"Why inmate deaths occur often"—"Why it’s important for society to care about prisoner's rights" and "Why compassion is so important". So come, read and experience TIME ON THE INSIDE, Behind The Walls In A Maximum Security Women’s Prison — Central California Women’s Facility — CCWF, From An Insiders View.

Donna Ann Smith-Marshall is a native of California. She is a wife, mother, writer, publisher, motivational speaker, prison reform activist, and author of TIME ON THE INSIDE Behind The Walls In A Maximum Security Women s Prison From An Insider s View. Donna Ann has worked for the Internal Revenue Services - IRS and General Services Administration -GSA government agencies prior to going into healthcare which she then worked in management for King-Drew Medical Center as a Program Director in Pediatrics, and as a Supervisor for Child Health and Disability Prevention Program, and Healthy Families Program for Molina Healthcare, a combination of 15 years between these employers. Donna Smith, at the time of her sentencing, was ordered to serve a prison term of three years and eight months, of which she completed two and a half years, from 1993 to 1995. Though she s been released for ten years, she continues to see the newcomers and recidivism rate grow, as women going into the penal system this year alone increased from 8,000 to 13, 500. This is a huge increase and travesty as women of all ages some who are mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts, even grandmothers. Donna Ann has lived and worked in the United States Largest Maximum Security Women s Prison, Central California Women s Facility in Northern California, where she processed newcomers and parolees into prison. She handled the relocation of inmates to various housing units during their sentencing to balance out the inmate yards, as well as resolved/prevented conflicts between inmates. She also handled secretarial services for the kitchen management. Donna Ann was also responsible for processing non-inmate men and women civilians to come into the prison to handle numerous business accounts within the Prison Industry Association. Donna Ann has been a viable part of inmate reform and youth prevention as she served on the CCWF Women s Advisory Committee, which works as a go-between for inmates and prison