“…In addition to high rates of incarceration, research documents the concerning rates of lifetime trauma (including adverse childhood experiences [ACEs], sexual assault, and intimate partner violence in adulthood), substance misuse, mental and physical health challenges, and poverty among Indigenous women (Edwards, Waterman, Mullet, Herrington, Cornelius, Hopfauf, Trujillo, Even-Aberle et al, 2022; Edwards, Waterman, Mullet, Herrington, Cornelius, Hopfauf, Trujillo, Wheeler et al, 2022). These experiences, along with racial profiling and mass incarceration, both increase women’s risk for incarceration and exacerbate challenges to reintegration following release from prison (Berman, 2005).…”