6 Ds Until She’s Free

Over the past several years, there has been increasing interest and investment in responding to the fact that people incarcerated in women’s prisons represent the fastest growing prison populations, increasing by 700% over four decades, outpacing the rate of growth of people in men’s prisons by 50%. More recently, focus has expanded to confronting the 14-fold growth in the number of people incarcerated in women’s jails, the majority of whom are mothers of minor children incarcerated following arrests for minor offenses, and many of whom are incarcerated simply because they are unable to post bail.