incarcerated women and girls

Arizona Revised Statutes § 41-1612 establishes a community treatment program for women who give birth while incarcerated, allowing eligible mothers to live with their children in a nonprofit-operated community treatment center as an alternative to incarceration, subject to public safety and available funding. The statute requires the department of corrections to adopt rules governing eligibility and participation and limits eligibility to women scheduled for release within five years.

This report from HealthRight International (full title in English: Analytical report according to the results of the study on the dependence between the committed crime, domestic violence, gender-related violence among convicted women with experience of using drugs, using mixed methods) demonstrates a correlation between domestic violence (or any other type of violence) against women and subsequent commission of crimes by these women (based on a survey among women serving sentences in Chernihiv and Kachaniv prisons).