Correctional healthcare systems were never designed with women’s needs in mind. This gap is especially devastating when it comes to mental health care. For many incarcerated women, jails and prisons have become default psychiatric institutions—places where mental illness is punished rather than healed. Correctional facilities have become the largest providers of mental health services in… Continue reading Behind Bars, Beyond Healing: The Invisible Wounds of Women’s Mental Health Crisis
Category: Women Behind Bars
Profiles, trends, and challenges for women who are accused or convicted of crimes
🩺Reproductive Injustice Behind Bars: Mercy Denied, Mercy Demanded
Behind bars, women carry more than sentences.They carry children. Trauma. Grief. And the weight of a system that was never built to honor their bodies. Reproductive injustice in carceral settings is not just medical neglect—it’s institutional violence. It shows up in ways both brutal and banal: Feminine hygiene neglect: Pads and tampons are rationed, bartered,… Continue reading 🩺Reproductive Injustice Behind Bars: Mercy Denied, Mercy Demanded
Not Designed to Heal: The Gender Gap in Correctional Medicine
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7 There is a kind of peace the system cannot manufacture—a healing that transcends medication,… Continue reading Not Designed to Heal: The Gender Gap in Correctional Medicine
