Unequal Justice

There are more women in prison than ever before. This series looks at rising rates of women behind bars around the globe.

Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?

August 14, 2018Commentary

At this juncture, reforms in women’s rights demonstrate that the kingdom is en route to modernizing. However, some of the actions of Saudi authorities — such as the arrest of prominent women’s rights activists — are seemingly at odds with the image the reforms want to project.

In one Oklahoma county, the number of women in prison is falling. This treatment program might be why.

April 15, 2018Conflict

Here’s a list of ways to help women who’ve been incarcerated

April 12, 2018Conflict

Medium close up of Mo Korchinski sitting in a coffee shop.

Many women come out of prison with almost nothing. This woman helps them through the first 72 hours.

April 10, 2018Justice

A US-style drug war brings a terrible cost: Thai prisons packed full of women

April 8, 2018Conflict

Cherise Greer in the backyard of her home in Duncan, Oklahoma.

‘I don’t want to miss any more’: One woman tries to stay clean and out of jail

April 3, 2018Economics

Oklahoma has had the highest female incarceration rate in the nation. It’s been that way for the last 25 years. The state imprisons 151 out of every 100,000 women, according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics — more than double the national rate. Cherise Greer is out of the system but is now faced with the challenges of life on the outside.

She was arrested for carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine into Canada. Her court case changed the law.

April 3, 2018Justice

Cheyenne Sharma admitted transporting more than 4 pounds of cocaine into Canada. But her lawyers put the country’s colonial history on trial.

The icon for female is behind bars surrounded by a brick wall.

There are more women in prison than ever before

April 2, 2018Conflict

Our series takes a global look at the problem: why women are ending up in prison, what it’s like for them inside and how activists are fighting to keep people out.

As more women are incarcerated in Mexico, so are their babies

March 31, 2018Conflict

“Why is this kid in here?” one man says of the girl he adopted, who lived with her mom in prison until several years ago.

A portrait of inmate Carmela Rodriguez Reyes in Mexico.

Women filling Mexico’s prisons are the ‘lowest rungs of the drug trade’

March 31, 2018Conflict

The number of women going to jail in Mexico is on the rise. Many are single moms trying to support their families.