This text addresses the physical and mental needs of women prisoners and suggests that they can't be properly treated unless their lifestyles before, during, an

Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that

The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nation's health inequities, extending beyond those who are imprisoned to fa

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they gestate their pregnancies in a space of punishment? Using

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.