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America incarcerates more of its citizens than any country in the world. The number of women in South Carolina's prisons has increased more than fourfold, from 283 in 1978 to 1,308 in 2017. The number of women in South Carolina's jails has increased more than 18-fold, from 74 in 1970 to 1,387 in 2015. Since 1990, the Black incarceration rate has increased by 52%. The female jail population percentage increased from 12.6% to 15.2% from 2005 to 2017 (BJS/USDOJ, 2019.) Applied to Prison Policy Initiative's 2015 report of 11,000 individuals in SC Jails b Nearly 1,700 women are in SC Jails (SC should have 1535 based on U.S. jail detention rates)
SC Detention Center reports having 1,344 female inmates (SCDC, Sept. 24, 2019) (SC should have 1435 based on U.S. prison incarceration rates and is housing 11 pregnant women. Greenville & Charleston Counties report a combined 11live births in 2018 while incarcerated. SC DHHS, Pete Leggitt, has recently begun examining the needs of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and how best to work with them, and, their children. One challenge faced by the total re-entry population is there is not a statewide data system tracking formerly incarcerated individuals, hence, they slowly are absorbed into larger systems during the initial re-entry journey. Individuals often become homeless upon re-entry, which does not adequately address the formerly incarcerated individual. This coupled with the rise in female incarceration and release, Greenville must address re-entry into society differently than the homeless individual who has not been incarcerated. Resources are scarce, and, individuals lose any financial resources they had prior to incarceration. Getting these resources back, and, in the instances of women with children, reuniting with children or access to resources is very challenging. Individuals require intensive case management and, in many instances, legal services to achieve a smooth transition back into society.
Women are not men. It seems obvious, of course, but most reentry programs for women are built for men and then "painted pink." They don’t take into account the complex demands facing women fresh out of prison: maintaining sobriety, keeping up with the punitive terms of correctional supervision, pregnancy, and searching for housing and employment, while repairing relationships and navigating the challenges surrounding family reunification and the child welfare system. Nor do these programs consider the root causes of their incarceration: overwhelmingly, justice-involved women were victims first, the vast majority have suffered physical, sexual, or emotional abuse at some point during their lives. Upon a currently incarcerated citizens release from prison, and returning back to their community they find themselves, LOCKED UP! AND, LOCKED OUT!
SC Chapter_ AoUoN has joined a national grassroots movement and is organizing an initiative in South Carolina started by formerly incarcerated people, to fight against the discrimination that incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and our family members face every day.