More death does not solve the problem. Certainly not in the rulers. Sometimes it seems they are found more often in those on Death Row than in those who sent them there. American women prisoners are the invisible victims of the drug epidemic. They don't make the headlines like the more exploitable violent criminals because they are primarily convicted of non-violent crimes usually connected with economics.
Drugs are a common factor, and the increase in drugs means the increase in convictions.
I soon surmised that illicit drugs were a component of many women prisoner's lives. Over the years, however, this has changed. Many women who abused drugs on the outside continue this pattern. In-custody drug abuse and trafficking are serious problems in every prison for women in this state, not only for customary security and management reasons, but because of the extreme swiftness and ease with which the AIDS virus is thus spread. Most female prisoners with children fit the single-parent profile.