Word: sielaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inmates are happy to see the changes but wonder why more isn't being done in the first place to prevent women from falling into the ruts that lead to prison. "Is incarceration the most rational way to deal with a woman who is a drug addict?" asks commissioner Sielaff. The country would do well to invest in programs for drug abusers, for battered women, for incest survivors and for the children of inmates, says Elaine Lord, superintendent at Bedford. But instead, the nation's prison systems, much like the overburdened school systems, have become the social program of last...
Rarely, if ever, do the female prisoners get any help from the fathers of their children. In fact, says Allyn Sielaff, New York City's correction commissioner, husbands, boyfriends and brothers usually drop a woman convict "like a hot potato." While wives and girlfriends line up to visit male inmates, visiting days at women's prisons are virtually all-female affairs...