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Nov 28, 2018 · The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country--over two million. Roughly 200,000 of them are female. But existing American prisons are often ill-equipped to handle the specific needs of ...
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Dec 6, 2023 · The number of incarcerated women in the U.S. increased by more than 525% from 1980 (26,326) to 2021 (168,449). At least 80% of women who have been sentenced to more than a year in state or federal ...
Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's rates during the prison boom in the United States. Even during the recent period of modest decline in incarceration, women's rates have decreased less than men's rates. The number of women in prisons and jails in the United States is now at a historic high. Yet research on mass incarceration ...
Dec 31, 2022 · The 2017 study based on the 2011-2012 National Inmate Survey (the most recent available) found that 42.1% of women in prison (state or federal) and 35.7% of women in jail are sexual minorities, compared to 9.3% of men in prison and 6.2% of men in jail. The study also confirmed that “[t]here is disproportionate incarceration, mistreatment ...
- Parenting from Prison
- The Needs of The Incarcerated
- Returning to Society
In this first video, women talk about struggling to stay in contact with their families while behind bars. Many studies have shown that prisoners who maintain close contact with family do better once they are released and have lower rates of returning to prison. Kyndia Riley, whose parents both went to distant federal prisons when she was 2 years o...
In this video, the women explain how prison fails to meet both basic and complex needs. When women spend money on basic necessities like tampons and pads, it takes away from savings that could be spent on in-person visits. And because incarcerated people make very little hourly at their prison jobs, they depend on their family and friends for the m...
In this video, the women speak about the obstacles people getting out of prison must surmount. When Ayana Thomas was released, her house had been foreclosed on, so she went to a shelter with her two kids. There are about 65 million Americans with a criminal record, which often carries with it restrictions on employment, education, and housing. Acco...
These women do not need to be behind bars. Many of them — as many as 60 percent in local jails — haven’t even had a trial, much less been convicted of a crime. More than half of the women in prisons and jails (56%) are incarcerated for drug or property offenses, and Black women are two times as likely to be incarcerated as white women.
Jul 24, 2024 · The female incarcerated population stands almost seven times higher than in 1980. Over sixty percent (62%) of imprisoned women in state prisons have a child under the age of 18. 1. Between 1980 and 2022, the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 585%, rising from a total of 26,326 in 1980 to 180,684 in 2022.
