Why Massachusetts Should Not Build Any New Women’s Prisons
This post serves as a review of the Baker Administration’s proposal of a trauma-informed new women’s prison, an initiative that is vastly under researched, misinformed, and fiscally irresponsible. While the national rate of women’s incarceration has risen dramatically in the past two decades, the opposite is true for Massachusetts (Rousseau, 2021; Massachusetts Department of Corrections, […]