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A personal narrative is presented in which the author shares his experience working in women's prison as professor to offer theology classes to women serving life sentences.

An interview with Mary L. Livers, president of the American Correctional Association (ACA), is presented. Livers talks about her stint with the Arkansas Deparment of Correction where she served as assistant warden of a women's prison. She explains the motivation behind her decision to pursue a career in corrections. She discusses how ACA has enhanced her career.

Features the report `Creating Choices' submitted in April 1990, which presented recommendations for federal women's corrections in Canada. Estimated number of women serving federal sentences in Canada as of October 2000; Problems experienced by women prisoners; Principles of change recommended by the report; Regional prison facilities in Canada.

Presents information on the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility (VYCF) for female youth offenders in Camarillo, California. Description of the VYCF units; Background of the VYCF Buenaventura Specialized Counselling Program; Features of the Alborada Intensive Treatment Program; Academic and vocational programs.

The article focuses on the Achieving Baby Care Success nursery program implemented at the Ohio Reformatory for Women for inmates with babies. To qualify for the program, inmates must enter state custody while pregnant and be serving a sentence of 18 months or less. Such women cannot be convicted of a violent crime or a crime against a child. Mothers included in the program take classes on parenting, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and how to use a car seat.

Profiles Nola Blackburn, a warden at the Wyoming Women's Center in Lusk. Career background; Plan of Blackburn to continue working as a warden at the facility.

Reports that Colorado is running out of room for women convicted of serious crimes. Rise in the number of females entering the state prison system; Information on the state female prison population.

Focuses on the increase in crimes committed by females in Louisiana, mostly for drug and drug-related offenses, since 1993. Population increase in the number of women inmates in a correctional institute in Saint Gabriel.