[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/16/asia/women-drug-trafficking-mules-hnk-intl-dst-as-equals/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/16/asia/women-drug-trafficking-mules-hnk-intl-dst-as-equals/index.html) Today, jails in East and Southeast Asia hold the world's biggest proportions of female prisoners. In many nations, the majority are incarcerated for drug offenses: 82% of women in Thai prisons are jailed for this and in the Philippines that figure is 53%. ratio of women in prison sentenced for a drugs offense thailand (82%) costa rica (69%) peru (61%) philippines (53%)