Boston Globe: Getting Serious About Recovery Requires Special Consideration for Women
Recent Coverage / 2019
New York Times: The Bail System and Its Injustices
Recent Coverage / 2017
Fox 25 Boston: Bail System Punishes the Poor and Costs the Taxpayers Millions
Recent Coverage / 2016
For women convicts, state needs better alternatives to jail
Recent Coverage / 2012
MetroWest Daily News: Treatment no longer behind bars
Why Bail Jails Are a Bad Idea
Recent Coverage / 2014
Response: Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of AIDS?
Opinion / 2015
Women's Media Center: The High Cost of Incarcerating Women
Recent Coverage / 2015
Mothers Seeking Substance Abuse Services: Analysis Including Justice-Involved Women
Audio / Audio 2015
Mass Live: Activists ask Mass. lawmakers to consider community sentences
Achieving Gendered Justice Developing Substantive Research & Action Strategies for Justice-Involved Women
All Projects / Active Projects
Moving Beyond Incarceration for Women in Massachusetts: The Necessity of Bail/Pretrial Reform (2015)
Publications by title / Fact Sheets & Briefs
Pretrial Reform: The Potential Role of the Office of Community Corrections (OCC) for Justice-involved Women in Massachusetts (2015)
Q & A with Erika Kates, Ph.D.: Building a Women's Justice Network in Massachusetts
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2014
Moving Beyond Prisons: An Action Platform to Address Women's Needs in Massachusetts
Audio / Audio 2014
Criminal justice reform at pre-trial stage discussed at public meeting 11/13
For the media / Earlier
Past years / 2012
Women-Centered Training for Practitioners Working with Female Offenders (2012)
Risk-Needs Assessments Appropriate for Women Offenders (2012)
Review of Massachusetts Corrections Master Plan (CMP): Focus on Women (2012)
Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI): Promising Practices in Massachusetts (2012)
A Strategic Plan for Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) for Women: Lessons from Abroad (2012)
Promising Gender-Responsive, Community-Based Programs for Female Offenders in Massachusetts (2012)
Executive Summary: Exploring Alternatives to Incarceration for Women in MA (2011)
Publications / Publications by title
Report: Exploring Alternative to Incarceration for Women in MA (2011)
Massachusetts Women’s Justice Network Activities and Advisory Group Members, 2011-2012 (2011)
Erika Kates, Ph. D.: Expanding Options for Female Offenders: A Project to Identify Community-Based Resources in Massachusetts
Audio / Audio Earlier
The Massachusetts Women's Justice Network
Gender and Justice Project on Female Offenders
All Projects / Archived Projects
State Court Tips Genderwise; Asian Pol Says Rape OK
Recent Coverage / 2013
Overcoming Persistent Inequities: Educational Disparities among Women in Massachusetts (2009)
Overview of Key Concerns for Women Offenders and Projects, 2009-2012 (2009)
Q&A with Erika Kates: A New Staff Partnership Studies Justice for Victims, Justice for Offenders, and Economic Justice
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2008
Erika Kates, Ph.D., Joins Wellesley Centers for Women as Senior Research Scientist
Erika Kates, Ph.D.
Active Researchers / Senior Scholars
Women in Prison and Family Connection
Higher Education for Low-Income Women: Advocacy at State and National Levels
