Women are often ignored in discussions of incarceration because they make up only around 10% of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. In a Feb. 4 online panel hosted by the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, speakers discussed how the criminal legal system disproportionately harms Black women, and proposed looking for alternatives to incarceration that balance accountability with forgiveness and dignity. Click here to read the full article in the National Catholic Reporter by Madeleine Davison.