Around the world, nearly one million women are behind bars — and that number is rising. Often this is not for serious crimes, but because they are poor, because they’ve survived violence, or because the system failed them long before a conviction.
Women Beyond Walls is a podcast that takes you beyond tired prison stereotypes to listen to real-life stories from incredible individuals: from women who have lived through incarceration, as well as from those reimagining what justice could look like.
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10 Feb 2026
Presenting: Everyday Injustice Podcast
Today, instead of a Women Beyond Walls episode, we’re featuring an episode of Everyday Injustice.
Everyday Injustice is a podcast from Davis Vanguard, a nonprofit watchdog news organization based in Davis, California. Their show dives into issues like reform, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, and more.
In this episode, they speak with Stephanie Akhter, director of the Women’s Justice Commission at the Council on Criminal Justice, about why women’s involvement in the criminal legal system is rising, how their experiences differ from men’s, and what meaningful reform actually requires.
If you like what you hear, check out Everyday Injustice here: https://davisvanguard.org/everyday-injustice-a-criminal-justice-reform-podcast/
2 Dec 2025
What Can We Do To Fix This Broken System? with Senator Kim Pate
When we talk about ‘public safety,’ we rarely talk about what actually keeps people safe: strong communities, basic needs met, and systems that heal instead of harm. Senator Kim Pate is a lifelong advocate for criminal legal reform. She’s worked both on the frontlines with women inside Canadian prisons and in the Senate advancing policy change. Kim makes a clear case for shifting resources from punishment to community and building the supports that prevent criminalisation in the first place.
To learn more about some of the issues touched upon in this episode, visit www.womenbeyondwalls.org/kim (http://www.womenbeyondwalls.org/kim)
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