And yet, the women in jail just overwhelmingly **are** mothers, and if the show is aiming to explore that and inform people (at least in part--obviously providing entertainment is a prime goal too), then not representing it is really inaccurate. Just the way they want to sensitize viewers to the issues of transgender people in prison, for example, they could do the same with parenthood.

A lot of women go to jail/prison for drug-related crimes, and the kinds of decisions you make and situations you find yourself in when you get involved with drugs tend to also result in babies... and conversely, if you happen to have a baby young, you're in a high-risk category for getting involved with thing like drugs (not saying this based on any actual statistics; just instinct... I'm willing to admit I could be wrong here.)