How Women Are Trapped in Prisons

As the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to be routinely subjected to forms of punishment that have not been acknowledged as such. For example, women have been incarcerated in psychiatric institutions in greater proportions than in prisons. Studies indicating that women have been even more likely to end up in mental facilities than men suggest that while jails and prisons have an dominant institutions for the control of men, mental institutions have served a similar purpose for women. And so again, like i i find this really important too, because it goes back to what i was saying earlier, about how incarceration affects different groups of people in different ways," she says.