Earlier this year, researchers from ASU released a report about incarcerated women at Estrella jail — a women’s-only facility in Maricopa County. Now those same researchers released a new report about the women at Perryville Prison in Goodyear.
Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is a professor at Arizona State University and the director of the Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research there.
“So, the Perryville study was, first of all, groundbreaking that the Department of Corrections allowed a researcher in,” she said.
The team surveyed roughly half of Perryville’s population. Roe-Sepowitz said they learned that many had an 11th grade education level, much higher than the assumed 5th grade level…