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20 lut 2024 · We look at why women got into this profession, the strengths they bring to the table, and why they are an integral asset for all units.
7 sie 2023 · The National Science Foundation gave KU a three-year, $1.6 million grant to help women transitioning out of incarceration learn about technology. The program aims to help former inmates by...
16 lis 2021 · Women’s incarceration rates have grown at twice the pace of men’s incarceration rates in recent decades, and has disproportionately been located in local jails. Though many more men are in prison than women, the rate of growth for female imprisonment has been twice as high as that of men since 1980.
13 gru 2023 · “Medicaid expansion would definitely help re-entry,” said Susie Roling, associate director for Journey to New Life, a Kansas City, Missouri, recovery program for people leaving women’s prisons. “Re-entry is a community problem, and it can be a community success,” Roling said.
27 lut 2020 · As of Feb. 26, the Topeka Correctional Facility, the only women's prison in Kansas, is over capacity by six people. Over the same time period, the men’s population rose by only 14%.
1 dzień temu · TOPEKA, Kansas — A literacy program at the only women’s prison in Kansas is helping incarcerated mothers and grandmothers connect with their young family members. The program operated by Fort Hays State University faculty and students helps some of the women at the Topeka Correctional Facility boost their reading abilities. It also gives them confidence to read aloud to their children and ...
28 lis 2021 · As the state approaches the two-year mark of the pandemic, the civil liberties group is renewing calls to examine applications for release, this time highlighting women in KDOC custody. According to The Sentencing Project, a D.C.-based research and advocacy center, the female incarcerated population has increased sevenfold from 1980.
