![]() The demographic makeup of this population has been a topic of discussion for over a century, and there are a number of reports that testify to the fact that almost all minorities (disabled, TLGBQ2S+, and racialized people) are overrepresented within prisons. There are currently around 41,000 adults in custody in the prison system in Canada, and roughly 2.2 million in the United States. Once arrested, Black girls like Bresha face disproportionately high rates of incarceration, and once incarcerated, Bresha joins the 84% of girls in juvenile prisons who have experienced family violence prior to arrest. After months of active community mobilization, she was finally returned to her family on February 4, 2018.īresha is another survivor of the powerful connection between girls’ experiences of domestic and sexual violence and their forced entry into carceral systems. She was sentenced to one year in juvenile prison (with 10 months served), six months in a mental health facility, and two years’ probation after her release. Charged with aggravated murder, Bresha was criminalized for what many consider to be self-defense. In July 2016, Bresha Meadows, a 14-year-old girl in Ohio, allegedly killed her father, who had inflicted years of violent abuse on her and her family. ![]() Content warning: mentions of abuse, incarceration, anti-Indigenous racismĬontinue or go back to the main page content warning: mentions of abuse, incarceration, anti-Indigenous racism ![]()
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