KATHLEEN O'SHEA is currently working on her doctorate in Social Work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Ms. O'Shea has over twenty-five years of experience teaching adults and children of all ages and people with special needs, including the blind and those with mental challenges. She has extensive counseling experience and served as a Catholic nun for twenty-two years. Among her publications is a chapter on women on death row in Women Prisoners: A Forgotten Population, edited by Beverly Fletcher (Praeger, 1993). BEVERLY R. FLETCHER is Principal Associate conducting justice research for the Institute for Law and Justice, and is Adjunct Professor at both the University of Maryland and the American University. She is also a member and consultant for the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences and is conducting research on juvenile violence in Washington, D.C. She is the editor of Women Prisoners: A Forgotten Population (Praeger, 1993) and Organization Transformation Theorists and Practitioners: Profiles and Themes (Praeger, 1990).