Right, I’m trying not to go full MRA here, but those were my thoughts too. 93% of inmates in federal prisons are male, so this is the kind of thing that would help men a lot more than women. Is there some reason to only target this bill at mothers, and not fathers as well?
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Well obviously men aren’t the part of the family Warren wants to heal. Read more

Meanwhile men with families are screwed. Read more

For sure. Change the name to Dignity for All and address the needs of all families with a member in prison! Read more

The bill would also restructure the way the justice system deals with female inmates who have children. If it passes, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will be required to take steps to make it easier for mothers to stay in touch with their children. Read more

My comment is nearly the same as the person who was arrested for a bag of drywall. Arrest records show up in background checks. So, you might not be able to get a job because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, or you have d*ck cop. Also, 10 months from arrest to trial, only to be found not guilty. Read more

I’m so sorry. This is awful. Thank you for sharing. Read more

Thank you for sharing this. I had a classmate growing up whose mother was a CO at Rikers...she came in every career day with soap sculptures the inmates had made and told us G/PG stories about what it was like working in a jail. I thought that it was full of people who did bad things and had to find ways to pass the… Read more

Also: The cost of calling an inmate is extortion. You pay upwards of $1/minute to quickly tell your loved one about legal updates and family issues. Read more

This was pretty familiar to me. I was a Deputy Sheriff/CO for a few years, and I almost lost my family because I couldn’t let go of the mindset. I can’t say I saw all the screaming that the author describes, but then again, maybe we were just calmer abusive assholes.    Read more

I’m speaking of the title of the post, by no means is it meant to be a blanket statement for the context of the article, I though that part would have been clear. I’ve had my brush with people heading down the wrong path unwilling to change their outcome. There are several people imprisoned who also didn’t deserve to… Read more

You can judge a country by how it treats its prisoners and in this case the prison visitors Read more

Well of course! Hifrequency doesn’t need to worry about conditions in jails/prisons because Hifrequency thinks if they follow all the rules they’ll stay out of trouble, and perhaps they are right. Not everyone has a complexion that means off duty cops will attack you for being on their lawn. Read more

Well, it’s hard to read effectively with his nose pointed up so high. Read more

One great book on the “secondary imprisonment” of family and friends: Megan Comfort’s “Doing Time Together.” Read more

Yep and even those who are NOT innocent but they are still good people who messed up big-time and made a stupid mistake doing a petty crime. There’s this idea that “criminals” are bad, evil people but that’s not the case at all. Most criminals aren’t sadist, child-rapists, or serial killers, but just ordinary people… Read more

I’m guessing you didn’t read the whole “ten months later he is found NOT GUILTY” part. Read more

One would only hope that their friends & family would have the common sense not to end up in one of these places, I had to leave so many friendships due to their destructive behaviors after leaving multiple bits of helpful advice to them. You are sometimes like the company you keep, people are capable of so much more… Read more