American Justice
Since 1978, the number of women in US state prisons has grown by more than 800 per cent.
All over the world, countries are imprisoning women at higher rates than ever before.
On the programme: We visit a new kind of drug treatment program for women in the Midwestern state of Ohio; we hear about why more and more mothers in Mexico are serving time for selling drugs; and we go to court with a Canadian woman named Cheyenne Sharma whose case ends up changing the law. The programme ends with the song ‘The One Who Stands In the Sun’ by Choctaw musician Samantha Crain.
(Image: Lisa Duncan, Ashley Porter, Sheena Kimberly and Stephanie Cleveland, all of whom are in the Tapestry program in Ohio, are pictured from left to right. Credit: PRI’s The World)
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Why this single mother became a drug dealer
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- Sat 21 Apr 201804:32GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & South Asia
- Sat 21 Apr 201821:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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- Sun 22 Apr 201810:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Mon 23 Apr 201805:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
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