Women Behind Bars: The Voices of Oklahoma's Incarcerated Women and Their Children

WOMEN BEHIND BARS was directed, produced, shot and edited by Amina Benalioulhaj, a Women's and Gender Studies graduate of the University of Oklahoma. Using the research of Presidential Professor of Sociology, Dr. Susan Sharp, Amina sought to make a documentary film the would expose Oklahoma's #1 rate for female incarceration in the world.

Over 28,000 children are currently displaced by the incarceration of a parent in Oklahoma. 80% of Oklahoma's female offenders are in prison for non-violent, drug relatable crimes. 80% are also mothers. Rarely do any of them have access to treatment. Many of them will leave prison facing harsher conditions than they did before the entered, with responsibility of caring for their children.

WOMEN BEHIND BARS seeks to answer the cause of the rising epidemic of female incarceration in the United States by taking viewers inside of Oklahoma's female prison facilities and face to face with the women and children most affected by this issue.

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Видео Women Behind Bars: The Voices of Oklahoma's Incarcerated Women and Their Children канала Amina Benalioulhaj