Incarcerated women face unique barriers to earning degrees

Image:  A recent report by the Vera Institute of Justice found that women were overrepresented among students enrolled in college prison programs in the 2020–21 academic year but underrepresented among degree or other credential earners. The findings were unsurprising to scholars focused on incarcerated women and the heads of college programs in women’s prisons. For women “in the prison context or in the correctional context … there are really huge hurdles, just like out there in...