Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration
Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration
November 21, 2017
The Prison Policy Initiative has released a new study “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017”. In a pattern that is similar to the fate of men in our mass incarceration system that charades as justice, 60% of those in local jails are there because they cannot afford bail. 29% of these women held for lack of cash are charged with drug offenses.