This report presents an analysis of women’s experiences with the local criminal legal system in Buncombe County, North Carolina: their pathways into and out of the jail, their living conditions and concerns during detention, and their perspectives on how services and systems in the county can …
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Hawai`i Is So Close to Ending the Incarceration of Young Girls
This summer, Hawai`i made headlines for a milestone achievement several years in the making. Finally—and for the first time—there were no girls being held in the state’s only long-term juvenile placement facility, the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF). “Hawai`i achieved a milestone that …