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Barnstable Jail Sees Sharp Rise in Women Inmates - The Provincetown Independent

PROVINCETOWN — The number of women locked up at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne has ballooned in the last 15 months — the result of two unrelated factors. One is the lack of facilities for women in most of the state’s county jails. The other is a sharp rise in the number of women being arrested on Cape Cod. As of July 21, there were 252 inmates at the county jail, and 113 of them were women, according to Barnstable County S…
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The Provincetown Independent broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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