The majority of incarcerated women were abused before they were pipelined into prison—and at the very least, one-third of those incarcerated for murder or manslaughter were in fact acting to protect themselves. From @justinevdl.bsky.social:
When I first began reporting on incarcerated women, I was fascinated by studies that showed that showed that upwards of 70 percent of women in jails and prisons were subjected to intimate partner…
