This training responds to the urgent need to interrupt a 50-year trend of increasing pretrial detention and further incarceration of women and gender-expansive people, despite them posing the lowest risk to public safety and being likeliest to have the role of primary caregiver.
Nationwide, women’s state prison populations have grown 834% over nearly 40 years. In 2024, almost 190,600 women and girls were incarcerated in jails, prisons, and other carceral settings in the United States.
Learn about the participatory pretrial model that helps prepare judicial officers, pretrial practitioners, women, and gender-diverse people facing court decisions to support a more inclusive process. This model will result in better informed decisions, greater autonomy for the people charged, a more holistic approach to pretrial release conditions, and ultimately, more successful completion rates for people on pretrial release.
This is extremely relevant in Pretrial. I have experienced a change in attitude and behaviors just by being present, hearing what is being said, and being understanding.