RCC Library Book Club: Fall 2015: Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman

The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration.

Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance makes visible women's experiences in the criminal justice system. Documenting these stories is integral to this project of resistance. The stories are supported by a collection of resources, such as organizations, reports, essays, and links to a wide range of information on women and prison.

The ACLU has compiled facts and statistics that help to highlight the growing numbers of the incarceration of women.

The NAACP's Fact Sheet on Incarceration Trends, Racial Disparities, Drug Sentences, Contributing Factors, and more contains statistics, comparisons, and projections.

Learn more about the author of Orange is the New Black and her advocacy for prison reform.

The National Institute of Corrections has compiled a list of resources on women in prison, a directory of programs for women offenders, and resources for working with the families of offenders.

From the website: The National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women was established to assist practitioners in understanding and applying the lessons learned from research, promising practices, and the insights of justice-involved women themselves, as practitioners strive to transform the criminal justice system into one that is more gender-responsive – and ultimately more effective.

These quick facts from the Women's Prison Association from 2009 detail the recent increase in the incarceration of women.

These quick facts from the Women's Prison Association detail the effects of incarceration on motherhood.