80% of women in jails are mothers, 55,000 women who are pregnant when they are admitted to jail.
An estimated 58,000 people every year are pregnant when they enter local jails or prisons.
Roughly 570,000 women living in the U.S. had ever been separated from their minor children by a period of imprisonment as of 2010.
An estimated 1.3 million people living in the U.S. had been separated from their mothers before their 18th birthdays due to their mothers’ imprisonment, also as of 2010.
The 1.9 million women released from prisons and jails every year have high rates of poverty, unemployment, and homelessness
