Individual papers describe the offense patterns and demographic characteristics of female inmates; the efforts to develop a new model that deals with the two major historical themes of equal treatment and differential treatment; and a correctional administrator's finding that the main differences in managing women's and men's prisons related to inmate-staff rapport, inmate response to authority and confinement, the level of inmate participation in operations and programs, and inmate responsiveness to positive incentives. Additional papers discuss domestic assault and its relationship to the mental health and socialization needs of inmates, legal issues related to female inmates, inmate programs, HIV infection and AIDS in correctional facilities, the needs of pregnant offenders, issues related to incarcerated mothers and their children, and the unique pastoral needs of incarcerated women. Further papers focus on the older female offender, hospices in women's prisons, management issues for female death row inmates, sentencing alternatives for female offenders, the history of the Alderson Federal correctional institution for women, the women's housing unit at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, and Canada's new Federal system for female offenders. Tables and chapter reference lists