What is Driving Criminalization of Women & LGBTQ People?
Many people now know that women are the fastest growing prison and jail populations. Over the past four decades:
The population of people incarcerated in women’s prisons has increased by over 700%.
The population incarcerated in women’s jails has increased by 1400%.
The population in women’s prisons has grown at more than double the rate of men’s prison populations over the past four decades.