Women's Prison

-Ward and Kassebaum found that official incidence of homosexuality is grossly underestimated and is overestimated by the inmates. More Frontera inmates resort to homosexuality than psychological withdrawal, rebellion, -colonization,- or any other type of adaptation. Because women suffer more intensely than men from the loss of affectional relationships, homosexuality in women's prisons greatly exceeds homosexuality in prisons for men. The authors found the overriding need of the majority of female prisoners is to establish an affectional relationship which brings, as it does in the community, love, interpersonal support, security, and social status, and hence concluded that situationally patterned homosexual behavior is the fundamental component of the female inmate social organization.-

--Clyde B. Vedder, Social Forces

"Ward and Kassebaum found that official incidence of homosexuality is grossly underestimated and is overestimated by the inmates. More Frontera inmates resort to homosexuality than psychological withdrawal, rebellion, "colonization," or any other type of adaptation. Because women suffer more intensely than men from the loss of affectional relationships, homosexuality in women's prisons greatly exceeds homosexuality in prisons for men. The authors found the overriding need of the majority of female prisoners is to establish an affectional relationship which brings, as it does in the community, love, interpersonal support, security, and social status, and hence concluded that situationally patterned homosexual behavior is the fundamental component of the female inmate social organization."

--Clyde B. Vedder, Social Forces

"Ward and Kassebaum found that official incidence of homosexuality is grossly underestimated and is overestimated by the inmates. More Frontera inmates resort to homosexuality than psychological withdrawal, rebellion, "colonization," or any other type of adaptation. Because women suffer more intensely than men from the loss of affectional relationships, homosexuality in women's prisons greatly exceeds homosexuality in prisons for men. The authors found the overriding need of the majority of female prisoners is to establish an affectional relationship which brings, as it does in the community, love, interpersonal support, security, and social status, and hence concluded that situationally patterned homosexual behavior is the fundamental component of the female inmate social organization."

--Clyde B. Vedder, Social Forces