• @pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml
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    610 months ago

    Does anyone actually feel sorry for her? I thought it was more of a tactic hoping the judge would give her a more lenient sentence if she had a kid

  • gAlienLifeformOP
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    410 months ago

    The vast majority of women in the US prison system are mothers. Nearly 60% of women in the country’s prisons have minor children, and so do 80% of those who are in jail. A large number of them have not even been convicted of a crime, but can’t afford to pay bail. They are overwhelmingly poor, women of color, and disproportionately Black—they couldn’t be more different from Holmes.

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