Criminalization of Indigenous women’s survival contributes to mass incarceration

This month, the Montana Innocence Project will seek to explain some of the reasons Indigenous peoples disproportionality make up our prison and jail populations with a series of stories published each week. Today’s story is about the criminalization of Indigenous women’s survival. Nationwide, Indigenous women make up less than 1% of the population but comprise … Continue reading Criminalization of Indigenous women’s survival contributes to mass incarceration