... This highlights the plight of incarcerated mothers whose concern is not only with separation with her children but also with how they will be cared for (Ward and Kaussebaum 1965) and one of the many differences between incarcerating women as oppose to men. The evidence shows that just because women are imprisoned it does not necessarily mean that they disregard the caring role they had previously undertaken. As a senior officer explained 'there are a lot of women still running the home from inside prison...I see women here write shopping lists everyday to give to their fellas' (Devlin 1998). Indeed many of the pains felt by these women are 'largely because of their greater need for family life and the deleterious consequences of enforced separation from their children' (Smart 1976 p.146). Therefore women have different needs to males and an amplified necessity to keep in touch with the outside ...

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