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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses. And they have compensated for the shortcomings of the public services and systems that fail to support people returning from prison. On any given day, thousands of women leave homes across America and enter prison voluntarily.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians.

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