Slightly under half of the approximately 219,000 women incarcerated in the United States right now are in local jails, and 60 percent of these jailed women have not been convicted, but are still awaiting trial, according to a new report produced jointly by The Prison Policy Initiative and the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice.
The report, “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017”-—authored by Aleks Kajstura, the Legal Director of the Prison Policy Initiative—is an addition to a previous report released in March of this year, which looks at the issue of mass incarceration in general. The idea of the larger report was to piece together information from a wide range of reports on the various pieces of the incarceration puzzle: state prisons, federal prisons, county jails, Indian Country jails, youth facilities, and immigrant detention facilities.
This new report augments the first report by carving out a look at the incarceration of women in the nation’s jails and prisons, and the delving particularly into the ways that issues faced by incarcerated women are different from those of men.
[For more on this story by Celeste Fremon, go to http://witnessla.com/report-sa...s-collateral-trauma/]
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