More than 60 per cent of incarcerated women are mothers - "Don't Call Me Resilient" (Podcast Clip)
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 13/05/2023

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It can be a complicated day. For some, it could mean a bouquet of flowers or a breakfast in bed. For others, it can mean mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with a haunted past. And still — for others — like the 66 per cent of incarcerated women in prison who are mothers, it can mean something else entirely.

Despite a reduction in crime in the last 20 years in Canada, many women attempting to make ends meet for their families end up colliding with the prison system. The fastest-growing prison population in Canada is racialized women, and one of the reasons the women’s prison population is rising is poverty.

On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava speaks to Rai Reece, a sociologist at Toronto Metropolitan University who researches prisons and feminist criminology, and Lorraine Pinnock, a formerly incarcerated mother who now works with the Walls to Bridges program which helps women with education when transitioning out of the system.

Listen to the episode at https://theconversation.com/more-than-60-per-cent-of-incarcerated-women-are-mothers-listen-204020 or wherever you get podcasts.