With the United States having the largest incarceration rate around the globe. It's very alarming to me that there is a rapid growth of women being locked up. According to statistics, there are more women being lock up today than men. Most of the women that are incarcerated are mothers or soon to be mothers. That’s almost 62% of the women housed in prisons. 5% that are put into the state are pregnant, 6% that are in jails the same. This is beginning to be a hardship for the facilities and staff. Over the last 30 years, the biggest contributing factor, in my opinion, is the war on drugs, domestic abuse, poverty, and revictimization. 73% of all the women in both state and federal facilities all earned a diploma and 60% that are under
