Issue and Impact

Move the sliders to view ten issues uniquely facing women impacted by the criminal legal system – and how WPA responds to each one.

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References, left to right: 1. Sawyer, W. (9 January 2018). The gender divide: Tracking women’s state prison growth. Prison Policy Initiative. Retrieved from: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/women_overtime.html 3. Kajstura, A. (2019 October 29). Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019. Prison Policy Initiative. Retrieved from: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019women.html 4. Prisoner Reentry Institute. (2017). Women in justice: Gender and the pathway to jail in New York City. The New York Women’s Foundation. Retrieved from: https://justiceandopportunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/John_Jay_WI J-Report_FINAL.pdf_.pdf 5./9. Holtfreter, K., Reisig, M. D., & Morash, M. (2004). Poverty, state capital, and recidivism among women offenders. Criminology & Public Policy, 3 (2), 185-208. 6./10. Swavola, E., Riley, K., & Subramanian, R. (2016). Overlooked: Women and jails in an era of reform. New York, NY: Vera Institute of Justice. 7. The Council of the City of New York (15 March 2018). Report of the Finance Division on the Fiscal 2019 Preliminary Budget and the Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report for Department of Corrections. Retrieved from: https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/03/FY19-Department-of-Correction.pdf