Ohio

Today, the total number of incarcerated women—including in state and federal prisons—is more than seven times higher than it was in 1980. And the estimated 1.2 million women who are under the control of the criminal legal system are not suffering the effects of mass incarceration and mass supervision alone. More than 58 percent of women in state an ...

The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States but made an exception for people convicted of crimes. As a result, incarcerated people and detained immigrants—a disproportionate number of whom are Black and brown due to the racism embedded in the criminal legal and immigration systems—are paid extremely low wages for work that can be diffi ...