Most incarcerated women are the primary caregivers for their children. When they are jailed, their children are 12x more likely to end up in foster care and face long-term psychological and educational harm. www.rstreet.org/commentary/l...
Locking up moms destabilizes families and doesn’t make us safer - R Street InstituteLocking up a mom punishes more than one person — it punishes her children, her family and her neighborhood. As a retired police officer, I have seen firsthand that women must face consequences when th...www.rstreet.org