Assessing the consequences of our country's soaring incarceration rates has less to do with the question of guilt versus innocence than with the question of who among us truly deserves to go to prison and face the restrictive and sometimes brutally repressive conditions found there. Every week we add more than a thousand prisoners to our prison and prison systems. The number of women in jails and prisons has reached a grim new milestone. While women remain embroiled in the war on drugs, the number of prisoners has increased if not doubled the rate of incarceration for men. The impact of their incarceration devastates thousands of children, who lose their primary caregiver when their mother goes to prison. Statistics are invaluable to students like me, when we need to demonstrate what we are talking about, what we are talking about is not about anecdotal information. or observing trends. When it comes to prisons, statistics have become a version of a double-edged sword. Because, the numbers are skewed, when it comes to women incarcerated for violent crimes and the disparity in sentence reduction or equal treatment versus the reality of economic need and the fact that women are more likely to be victims before the crime. For example, most female offenders are therefore less likely to have well-paid jobs; Bail for even minor crimes is more difficult for women to pay, especially if they are the primary caregiver of a child. Food, clothes, diapers: what's more important than bail? Women in prison need rehabilitation that involves or should foster relationships, men on the other hand need vocation, but when it comes to setting gender-specific sentencing targets there is... ... half of the document ...... mention the health risks resulting from the lack of protection, when you consider that women participated in ninety percent of cases of sexual crimes by personnel, it is no wonder that the incidence of our institutions is epidemic. CitedFoster, B. (2006). Corrections; The Fundamentals. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.Grimm, A. (2013, June 07). High rate of sexual assault at Joliet youth prison, survey finds. Chicago, Illinois, United States. Person, D. (June 26, 2012). Column: The nightmare of rape in prison. Retrieved November 22, 2013, from USA Today: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-26/prison-rape-sexual-assault/55844922/1Sanders, E., & Donifon , R. (2011). Children of imprisoned parents. Cornell University: Cornell Cooperative Extension.Simmons, C.W. (2000). Children of imprisoned parents. California Office of Research, 1-11.