The bigger question is how many probably shouldn't even be there, as well as how many were victims of racial disparities in sentencing.
Staff here — did you know women are the fastest growing segment of the US prison population? Yet they are too often not addressed in policy.
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Thank you both for all you do to make our world better.pic.twitter.com/WxWGQjMoxg
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America hates its criminals. Talk about prison reform or justice system or police misconduct or rehab instead of jail and people tune out.
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There seems to be this mindset that once you're a criminal (or even suspected), you degrade into a subhuman not deserving of basic rights.
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Yes.. They get caught by that 90's drug law that added co-conspiracy charges to adults co-habitating with a drug dealer/user.
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The prison population in the US is way too big overall.
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California's prisons are the State's de facto mental hospitals, and as such they are barbaric. Major policy overhaul needed here as well.
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Ma'am Id ask you and the staff to read up on
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Or policy that addresses us serves to deprive us of healthcare, autonomy, equal pay. At this rate we're better off ignored by lawmakers.
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Until more women are in office...
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