Nov 28, 2018 · More than two million Americans are in jails or prisons here, and more than 200,000 of those prisoners are female. Amna Nawaz takes a closer look at the conditions faced by women behind bars....

Aug 24, 2018 · Women are more likely than men to enter prison or jail with mental health and substance-abuse issues, and, specifically, with traumatic histories of sexual abuse. Not only is treatment for these conditions largely unavailable behind bars, but many women are actually at greater risk of complications and further trauma when living in confinement.

4 days ago · And that's not how women are coming out of prison. "I want to be the noise-in-that-crickets moment, when the silence hits for those women." Experience leads to Bars Behind Me

The reality of life behind the walls of the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center, where mothers, daughters, grandmothers and sisters are also gangbangers, …

A harrowing journey inside the female criminal mind to discover why the women who are incarcerated in America’s prisons don’t just hurt the people they love, they have been found guilty...

Mar 5, 2024 · The new edition of Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, which the Prison Policy Initiative has published since 2017, fills this gap with richly-annotated data visualizations about women behind bars.

Mar 11, 2025 · Strength Behind Bars News Inside Issue 19 honors women navigating the correctional system.

Feb 22, 2019 · It covers a range of issues incarcerated women face, including access to healthcare, prevention of sexual assault, discipline and segregated housing, parental rights, and availability of programming.

The number of women behind bars in the United States has grown to nearly 110,000—fourteen times the size of the population of women in jails and prisons forty years ago, says a new study from the Vera Institute of Justice, an organization that …

There are now more than 200,000 women behind bars and more than one million on probation and parole. Many of these women struggle with substance abuse, mental illness, and histories of physical and sexual abuse.