Opinion: Looking at Women’s Equality Day from behind bars

August 28, 2023

By: Serena Martin-Liguori, New York Nonprofit Media

Members of the Women’s Community Justice Association holding a rally calling for better conditions at the Rose M. Singer Center for women, also known as Rosie’s, at the Rikers Island jail complex on April 26, 2021. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, and along with gender-expansive people, often punished more harshly than others in prison.

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