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Incarcerated women have been and continue to be treated differently by criminal justice systems around the world at every step of the process, from arrest to sentencing, to punitive measures used.
Women constitute a small fraction of the general prison population in India. As on 31st December 2018, there were 19,242 women lodged in prisons across the country as compared to 4,46,842 men (NCRB 2018). However, the level of female criminality in India has been rising over the past decade, and
Apr 3, 2023 · Twenty-five percent of women in prison have been convicted of a drug offense, compared to 12% of men in prison; 19% of incarcerated women have been convicted of a property crime, compared to 13% among incarcerated men.
May 22, 2023 · A History of Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It. The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project are able to scrutinize official records not only for what they...
Sep 30, 2022 · In Section II, we describe overriding problems in women offenders’ lives—sexual and physical abuse, mental health problems, drug dependence—and identify five fundamental challenges that confront women in prison: accommodation and food, victimization, programming and treatment, work, and motherhood.
This graph shows the number of women in state prisons, local jails, and federal prisons from each U.S. state per 100,000 people in that state and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with at least a half million in total population.
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Criminal justice systems around the world, particularly in the United States, make it very difficult for women to live a normal life after incarceration. This can be attributed to the lack of support and resources women seek to rebound in a healthy and sustainable fashion.
