California has the highest proportion of women serving life (or virtual life) sentences in state...
Women and Justice
Not Only Are Women the Fastest Growing Incarcerated Population, They Also Have Disparate Contact With Law Enforcement
Although the total number of stops, searches, and arrests have each steadily fallen in the United...
Johns Hopkins Report Offers First Ever Look at Pregnancy in Prison Stats
Since 1980 the incarceration of women in the U.S. has far outpaced that of men, skyrocketing by...
Is LA County’s Mira Loma Women’s Jail Project Dead? And Did the New Sheriff Help Kill It?
It’s not yet a done deal, but absent some kind of dramatic intervention, it appears that the...
Susan Burton’s Prison Book Tour Goes to Aliceville & Tutwiler Prisons for Women & Finds Pointless Dehumanization
Even though the women were trying to have hope, I recognized those symptoms of dehumanization as I...
The Problems With California’s Broken Bail System are Vividly Illustrated as a 26-Year-Old Pregnant Mother is Bailed Out of an LA Jail For Mother’s Day
On Tuesday, 26-year-old Deshay Murphy, received an early Mother’s Day gift when her $30,000 bail...