A Descriptive Study of Female Prisoners: Evaluation of Socio-Demographic Profile, Crime Pattern and Psychiatric Morbidity

A Survey to Assess the Mental Health Problems and Coping Strategies Amongst the Jail Inmates in a Selected Jail in Delhi

“…The result of the present study revealed that the majority of the samples were in the age group 31-40 years, most of the jail inmates were married (50%), most of the jail inmates belonged to nuclear family (46%), majority of the jail inmates (59%) had 5 or more members in their family, most of the jail inmates were not able to read and write (26%), 34.38% jail inmates were not working before coming to jail, maximum (69%) prior income obtained by jail inmates was in Rs.0-10000 category. These findings were almost consistent with the study conducted by Sabitha V, Bevin S, Kiruthika A(2017) [6]. They found that the mean age of female prisoners was 36.4.…”

“…A written permission was taken to carry out the study and publication from The Director General of Prisons, New Delhi. Permission was obtained for jail number 6 So, it can be concluded that age, marital status, family type, number of family members, educational qualification, previous occupation, prior income, number of days in jail, type of crime, previous substance use had impact on the presence of anxiety among jail inmates whereas current jail inmate status, number of times convicted had no impact on presence of anxiety.…”