Second chances for ex-offenders? In reality, for most women in prison, LEAP represents their first chance. • 82% of imprisoned women are subjected to sexual abuse as children • 75% are victimized by domestic violence as adults • 70% are addicted to drugs to alcohol • 73% suffer from mental illness • Just 14% of women in state prison have access to educational programming • 52% of women in prison have minor children • 62% of women in Florida State prison were convicted of non-violent crimes • Only 14% of inmates get any educational or vocational instruction or substance abuse treatment
