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Women in Jail: City and county jails in the USA are experiencing a boom in their female prison population. At a time when America's jail population is falling, why is the proportion of women in local prisons going up?

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"Women compared to men are much more likely to be unemployed at the time that they are sent to jail", explains Olive Lu of the Vera Institute for Justice. As a result thousands of women across the USA are unable to make bail, languishing in the prison system. "They are incarcerated for crimes of poverty like theft, or maybe writing a bad check” says Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life, a non-profit that helps former female convicts reintegrate into civilian society. One glimmer of hope is the progressive idea of Education-Based Incarceration, which provides women with vocational and life-skills training. Former inmate Selena Lopez received a life-changing high school education behind bars. "I started feeling like I belonged and that I mattered”, says Lopez.

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