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There's Little Justice for Incarcerated Women

Santa Fe Reporter
By Silja JA Talvi
Santa Fe Reporter | December 4, 2008
Progress is being made to try to make the criminal justice system more "gender-responsive," but the change is very slow in coming. In the meantime, girls and women locked up in the system often come back to their communities sicker, more miserable and more alienated than before.
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Tags: New Mexico, prison, health, Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, Corrections Corporation of America, women's issues, crime & justice, New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility

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