Comparing the Candidates: Improving the Health of a Diverse America
Health insert.pdf 353.01 kB
Health insert.pdf 353.01 kB
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