“…The racial breakdown in that age group shows that 1 in 355 are White women, 1 in 297 are Hispanic women, and 1 in 100 are Black women (Warren, Gelb, Horowitz, & Riordan, 2008). As Franklin, Fearn, and Franklin (2005) noted, incarcerated women are characteristically women of color, poor, unemployed, and single mothers of young children. Imprisoned women tend to have fragmented families, other family members involved with the criminal justice system, significant substance abuse issues, and multiple physical and mental health problems (Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003).…”