Women's Incarceration Info

A U-M Honors 240 Project by @brynn__16, @kathygu27, Charlotte Falk, @aangie_jpg, and Emma Forde.

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Read: Hillary Clinton: Women and Prison— The Cost in Money and Lives
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An excerpt from Joseph Shapiro’s “In Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women” from NPR.

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An excerpt from Annie Sweeney’s “'Prison is not where women need to be': All-female task force wants to cut Illinois’ female prison population in half” in the Chicago Tribune.

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Fighting for women’s rights includes not only social and reproductive justice in day-to-day life, but justice within the prison walls as well

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(from https://t.co/LDYnP1VteK)

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An excerpt from “Incarcerated Women and Girls” from May 2018.

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The United States has the highest global proportion of women in prison.

via: Forbes

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An excerpt from Aleks Kajstura’s article “States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2018” written in June of 2018

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The number of incarcerated women has increased considerably since the 80s: it’s not just a male issue, as we see overcrowding as a problem in our prison system today. .
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An excerpt from Dr. Stephanie S. Covington’s “A Women’s Journey Home: Challenges for Female Offenders.”

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Follow the account and retweet a post to be entered into a drawing for your choice of a $20 Starbucks, Amazon, OR Chipotle gift card. Raffle will take place on December 7th. You must be a UMich undergraduate to enter.

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Brynn, Charlotte, Emma, Angie, and I (Kathy) made this account for our Honors 240 class project about women’s incarceration!