Mexico's Drug War, Feminized (PHOTOS)

(PHOTOS) “I'm not someone who works. I'm not someone with a family. I'm just a prisoner.”

Over the weekend, the Sunday Review of the New York Times ran a story by and an accompanying photo essay by Katie Orlinksy about the feminine side of the Mexican drug war.

“With her case and others, this is what Mexico is struggling to figure out. The number of women incarcerated for federal crimes has grown by 400 percent since 2007, pushing the total female prison population past 10,000.”

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