Family separation is traumatic enough for children and mothers in jail, and now due to coronavirus, phone and video calls are the main means for families to keep in touch — but those options come with a cost many can’t afford.
It isn’t challenging to see how lack of safe places for formerly incarcerated women, and lack of resources, impacts family separation. “We often think that when people go to jail or prison they are cut off from society — sent to a fortress on a hill,” says Stephanie Bazell, Director of Policy and Advocacy at College & Community Fellowship. “This could not be further from the truth. Women mother through jail and prison [and continue] to care for families and communities.
While an overhaul of the system is the only real solution for protecting women and their families now and in the future, there is a little something that people can do from home: Stop the fear mongering about the “danger” of releasing inmates. “In the face of COVID-19, the right thing to do is bring people home,” Lerner says.
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