This was a well written post, and thank-you for citing the many organizations that have researched and advocated for human rights for incarcerated individuals worldwide.

You raise some excellent questions that get me thinking. Specifically your question: Should women in prisons be a priority when there are other women outside of correctional facilities without medical assistance? Why must it be an either or proposition. I think that the treatment of individuals in prisons is only an amplification about how different groups of individuals are treated in mainstream society. Gender inequality has been well articulated in your piece, and is symptom of larger issue in the way women are treated and viewed in the world, so I suppose advocating for gender equality and maternal rights for all women regardless of whether they are prisoners or not is imperative.

Tanya Rumble