A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice found women are the fastest growing incarcerated population in the United States. The number of women in local jails is almost 14 times what it was in the 1970s. We examine what’s driving this trend and the unique challenges women face behind bars with Elizabeth Swavola, Senior Program Associate at the institute and one of the study’s authors, Priscilla Fennell, former Georgia inmate and activist, and Sara Totonchi, the Executive Director of the