There is an ever-increasing need to recognize the gendered dynamics of women’s contact with the Criminal Legal System (CLS) and to address women’s traumatic histories of gender-based violence. Women’s prison and reentry programming are focused primarily on reducing recidivism but neglect how an individual’s intersecting identities influence their risk of violence and incarceration. This is problematic given the extensive overlap between recidivism and history of violence and incarceration…