{"id":388,"date":"2020-11-20T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:41","slug":"ending-cash-bail-is-a-womens-rights-issue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/online\/volume-xxii-online\/ending-cash-bail-is-a-womens-rights-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Cash Bail Is a Women\u2019s Rights Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long arm of the United States carceral system has grabbed hold of women in the last several decades. From 1980 to 2016, the number of incarcerated women increased more than 700%. The ills of pretrial detention disproportionately affect women because they are more likely to be detained pretrial and because of their unique social and economic positions. In this way, ending the system of cash bail is a women\u2019s rights issue, as women \u2013 particularly poor women of color \u2013 bear the brunt of the policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/11\/Final_Savanna-Jones_Cash-Bail_Issue-1.pdf\">Ending Cash Bail Is a Women\u2019s Rights Issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long arm of the United States carceral system has grabbed hold of women in the last several decades. From 1980 to 2016, the number of incarcerated women increased more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5459,"featured_media":0,"parent":943,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions\/399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}