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Oct 15, 2015
Gender and Justice in America: Who pays in an offender-funded justice system?
Blog by Ruth Delany, VERA Institute of Justice
A new report from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Research Action Design lays bare the significant impact that mass male incarceration has on women who remain in the community—a critically important and often overlooked aspect of our current offender-funded justice system. Although women also suffer financial and emotional consequences when they are themselves incarcerated—and these experiences should not be minimized or ignored—the report reveals that they also shoulder the crushing financial burden of familial incarceration.
