National Women's Prison Project, Inc – Mother's Day Luncheon
May 13, 2012
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More and more women are being incarcerated into U.S. prison systems. The numbers are staggering! And many of these women are in prison for non-violent crimes, self-defense or for defending their children to abusive spouses. Most women that are incarcerated are mothers whose children are being cared for by either family members or state housing/foster homes.
What the majority of these incarcerated women want – is to be released from prison, return to their children, secure meaningful employment and to be a successful part of society. And this is extremely difficult to accomplish with over-crowded prisons, over-burdened justice systems and an increase in private prisons profiteering from the prison business.