This session will highlight the necessity of providing victim advocacy services to incarcerated women as well as the unique role that pretrial services plays. The logistics of the collaboration, current successes/challenges will be shared. The workshop will provide hands on information for...
Project Safe Release_ An Innovative Approach to Working with Victim Defendants (1).pdf
Though women in jails are the fastest growing correctional population in the U.S., they are left out of reform efforts. This workshop includes a panel of women who will share their personal experiences with the legal system, the challenges they faced, and what helped them exit the system...
Overlooked_ Women and Jails in an Era of Reform.pdf
This toolkit describes how counties can benefit from developing criminal justice solutions focused on women. It is designed to provide sheriff’s departments, probation departments, practitioners and other leaders with a blueprint for addressing women under local supervision. #Women
WomensToolkit_singles_5.5.15v1.pdf
Shared at the 2019 May Network Meeting, this website has a variety of recourse and information regarding women in recovery. #Women #substanceabuse
New Orleans once locked up more of its residents than any other city in the country. But in recent years, religious leaders and the business community, along with advocates for racial justice, have come together to take steps toward reforming the criminal justice system. This moment is...
The Diane Wade House will be the first-of-its-kind, Afrocentric transitional housing program for adult women involved in the criminal justice system in Multnomah County. The home will provide gender-responsive, trauma-informed services. This means that residents, who must be referred to the...
Diane-Wade-House_One-Pager_extended-version_FINAL (2).pdf
Women in the U.S. experience a starkly different criminal justice system than men do, but data on their experiences is difficult to find and put into context. The Prison Policy Initiative fills this gap in the data with a rich visual snapshot of how many women are locked up in the U.S., where,...
This case study examines how Campbell County, a rural community in Tennessee, designed and launched the Women In Need Diversion (WIND) program to address the particular needs of women in jail. Drawing on direct program observation and in-person interviews with WIND stakeholders, this case study...
2018.10.11_Alternatives-for-Incarcerated-Women_finalized.pdf
While many communities have services for women impacted by gender-based violence, such as rape crisis counseling and domestic violence shelters, these services are often left out of reentry planning; and victim services and reentry services remained silo-ed from each other. Also included are the...
Making the Connections- Linking Justice-Involved Women to Victim Services - May 2018 Network Meeting.pdf
This report provides a first-of-its-kind detailed view of the 219,000 women incarcerated in the United States, and how they fit into the even larger picture of correctional control. Since 2014, the Prison Policy Initiative has quantified the number of people incarcerated in the United States,...
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