Incarceration Content Topic Results

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, this film offers an examination of the U.S. prison system, looking at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in the United States. 

This targeted recommendation urges both mainstream and LGBTQ specific service providers to actively consider the negative systemic impacts of law enforcement and the criminal legal system on communities at the margins. 

This piece from the Center for American Progress discusses the history of the intersection between race and policing in the United States and offers policy recommendations to improve the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.

This resource is a collection of materials developed by and for communities most affected by the expansion of the prison industrial complex and confronting reproductive oppression within the confines of the walls of these institutions.

This report documents 28 cases of transgender women who were held in US immigration detention between 2011 and 2015, more than half of whom were held in men’s facilities at some point.

This page outlines the problems that black trans, queer, and gender nonconforming people face with institutions such as police and prisons, employment, healthcare, housing. It also offers action steps for the federal, state, and local levels.

This webinar series is for attorneys, accredited representatives, domestic and sexual violence advocates, mental health service providers and social workers already familiar with VAWA and U visas to help women and children released from family detention centers. 

Expert panels covered issues such as violations of women’s reproductive privacy, women's mass incarceration (and their health behind bars), access to reproductive health services, domestic violence, online sexual harassment, and the religious objections to medical services.

This document summarizes concerns regarding how police respond to domestic violence and sexual assault, police bias and discrimination against survivors with marginalized identities, and outlines recommendations for improving law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.

This report contains the survey results which show a strong disconnect between victims of domestic violence seeking help from law enforcement and the support those authorities are tasked with providing. The report highlights a number of factors that create major obstacles for victims attempting to cope with domestic violence – from distrust of the authorities to fear of punishment from their abusive partner.

This is a summary of a roundtable focused on criminalization policies and their effect on Black women and girls. The discussion centered the experiences of Black women and girls who have survived domestic and sexual abuse and provided an opportunity to consider how the intersection of multiple aspects of a person’s identity shape their experience with criminalization policies.

This Applied Research paper provides an update to Mary Gilfus’ (2002) publication on the pathways from victimization to incarceration among women and girls, based on the relevant research published in the past 12 years. This research provides additional findings about the extent of victimization experienced by women and girls under correctional control, and a deeper understanding of the ways in which experience of victimization can lead to incarceration.