Tracy Williams with her daughters Brianna and Renisha. Photo taken at MCI Framingham. Listen to a conversation with the Superintendant of MCI Framingham and a national expert on women in prison. In the past two decades, women have gone to prison in record numbers.
Women are now the fastest growing group of prisoners in the nation.
Massachusetts is no exception. The state's women's prison, MCI Framingham, is jammed with inmates. Prisoner advocates and correctional officials say they're troubled by the trend, in part because most women prisoners are not violent offenders, but drug addicts and mothers. Trustees of Boston University. All rights reserved.