JOINT CENTER Calendar of Events
2007 Annual Black Women's Agenda Workshop - Health Forum
Date: 09/28/2007
Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by Joint Center Health Policy Institute and Black Women's Agenda
Date: 09/28/2007
Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by Joint Center Health Policy Institute and Black Women's Agenda
In 2005, black women, with an incarceration rate of 156 per 100,000 persons, were more than twice as likely as Latina women and three times as likely as white women to be in prison. About 70 percent of the women in prison—many of whom were imprisoned for drug violations—have children under the age of eighteen. Learn more