Women's eNews (https://womensenews.org/tag/prisons/)
Deborah Jiang Stein was born in prison and now she’s back in a new role. “The women feel safe telling their stories in this circle. A corner of their filters drops–they know I won’t judge,” she writes in this excerpt from her memoir “Prison Baby.”
The Human Rights Watch report documents cases of women illegally detained and sometimes tortured. Far fewer women are in jail than men, but they face a “double burden” of social stigma after release, authors find.
President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Cecile Richards
Credit: Jared Soares for PBS NewsHour. PBS NewsHour on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).