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How the Increase in Female Incarceration Disproportionately Affects Women with Lower Income

Women have been getting arrested and put behind bars at a staggering rate over the last few decades. Since 1985, the number of women being incarcerated has steadily increased at a rate almost double to that of men's incarceration. With over 200,000 women in federal and state prisons and local jails, the country's criminal justice system continues to send women to overcrowded correctional facilities. According… Read more