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Girls accounted for 31% of all arrested youth in 2019, an increase from 18% in 1990, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project also finding that, as with boys, fewer girls ultimately were incarcerated between 2000 and 2019.
As suicide rates for women veterans have increased, proportionately, more than male rates, an increasing number of those deaths involved firearms, according to the “National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report,” released in September 2021.
G.I.R.L.S. N Da Hood is exploring gender and incarceration in the Bronx. We focused on understanding women’s experiences with arrest, court, lockup, placement and beyond.