Ava Berkofsky has done some amazing work documenting the lives of women in the US prison system. She points out in Strange Silence: Portraits from Women's Prisons: Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, and New Mexico that the number of women being incarcerated in the US has been increasing steadily for the past ten years.
She writes.
"The past 10 years have given us unprecedented levels of incarceration among all groups of people, but especially among women. The population of women's prisons nationally has doubled since 1997 alone. Most every woman I talked to knew this."
While you're visiting Berkofsky's site, be sure to check out Inconsolable: Brooklyn Funeral Homes -- another fabulous social essay written in photographs.
She writes.
"The past 10 years have given us unprecedented levels of incarceration among all groups of people, but especially among women. The population of women's prisons nationally has doubled since 1997 alone. Most every woman I talked to knew this."
While you're visiting Berkofsky's site, be sure to check out Inconsolable: Brooklyn Funeral Homes -- another fabulous social essay written in photographs.
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