Today is #InternationalWomensDay. We are thinking of the women in Coffee Creek, Oregon's only women's prison.
65% of the women in a relationship at the time of arrest reported experiencing abuse in their relationship.
69% of the women said that trauma led to their involvement in the criminal justice system.
The average sentence length for women in Oregon in 2018 was 25 months.
44% of the women in a relationship at the time of arrest said that the relationship contributed to their conviction.
"Our criminal justice system is an abuser in and of itself- it's a simple reality of how that system was designed." -Rep Tawna Sanchez
Learn more about the work that Women's Justice Project does, and read the full report (where the data in the previous tweets are from) here:
ojrc.info/womens-justice…
ojrc.info/herstory-orego…
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