For nearly a decade, researchers followed almost two hundred women through the gates of Santiago's prisons and back into the world, asking a question societies rarely pause to examine carefully: does incarceration actually change people, and if so, how? The answer, emerging from a Rutgers-led study published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, is that prison is not a uniform force but a mirror — reflecting and refracting the circumstances each woman carried in with her. What mattered most was not the fact of confinement, but who a woman was before she arrived and whether, whil
Chilean study finds employment access key to reducing reoffending among incarcerated women
Nearly 200 women incarcerated in Santiago, Chile, most for theft, drug trafficking, and robbery, were tracked over 10 years to assess post-release outcomes.