The committee on crime terrorism and Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyone to todays hearing on women and girls in the criminal Justice System, and i now recognize myself for an opening statement. I am very pleased that the subcommittee is holding this hearing today. After decades of policies that led to mass incarceration, we are finally added point of examining the policies and the consequences. What has been missing from the discussion of criminal Justice Reform is the special and specific impact that tough on crime and has had on women and children. Todays hearing begins a a discussion about women in the criminal Justice System. It is critical we understand how and why women become involved in the system, what happens to them when theyre incarcerated, and what their trajectory is once released. We need to examine the impact of the war on drugrelated policies that specif