Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #120175

Corey Weinstein, MD, California Prison Focus, 1199 Sanchez, San Francisco, CA 94114, 415-333-8228, coreman@igc.org

One of the ways that the US is out of compliance with the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights is in its treatment of women prisoners. Recent legal challenges and public campaigns have moved to change basic routines common in prisons for women that violate human rights. A recent US Circuit Court decision presents an important opportunity to finally protect women prisoners from sexual abuse by removing male custodial staff from posts in any housing unit. Any campaign for basic human rights should raise issues of the need for gender specific procedures and programs for women's special needs including family reunification and drug mental health treatment.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe Rule 53 of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
• Understand the need for gender specific programs for women.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.