Worldwide, though few compared with male inmates, poor marginalized women comprise the fastest growing prison population. In Canada, a high proportion is Aboriginal. Most have suffered abuse, and more than half their crimes are non-violent. Prison rarely prepares them for return to society, and all too often, on release, they find themselves at risk of re-offending. http://www.elizabethfry.ca/eweek2011e/Criminalized_and_Imprisoned_Women.doc
Criminalized and imprisoned women
January 18, 2013 by