I know this was her decision to marry the freaking Prince, but I feel bad for Meghan. This level of public scrutiny (which she will have to deal with FOR LIFE) cannot be easy. She had successful C list career and flew relatively under the radar, now she is daily tabloid fodder, called racist names and every move she…

What gives someone the idea that getting pregnant halfway through a 15 year prison sentence is a good thing for the child?

I’m just glad that no one else understood it either because I was wondering if I’d maybe had a stroke.

What?

Except they ignore lots of negative effects on children in this article. The Clinton era law that terminates parental rights is imperfect definitely, but it was passed because of the very real problem that some children spent their entire childhood with absolutely no stability at all because the system parental rights…

Overnight or otherwise visits should not be permitted without a Drs note stating that a woman has a iud or some other long-term birth control since unfortunately there is no long term shot for men. Children don’t ask to be born and life is hard enough without added hardships when conception can easily be prevented.…

Thomas is modest but passionate about fighting for the rights of others—as a law librarian who had been imprisoned since 1982

It’s my understanding that she also negotiated the contract killing. She was no scared little drug addict done wrong by an evil man. As I say, she deserves humane treatment, but not sympathy.

She may not have pulled the trigger, but she provided the gun and helped hide the evidence. She’s not a sympathetic figure at all.

Her actions assisted in making another woman’s children motherless for the rest of their lives.

I think it is well-researched but also quite biased. They really downplay some of these women’s crimes. I didn’t know about Green when I first read this but a quick google search shows that Jez totally played down her horrific crime

Wow thank you for the details. I honestly now see this as a very biased report. Cannot say I have any sympathy for Green and I think many of these women’s kids would be better off with stable adoptive families.

Yes, the author isn’t doing her cause any favors by showcasing Cassidy Green. Don’t get me wrong, she deserves to be treated humanely and with the best interests of society at heart, but let’s not pretend that what she did wasn’t despicable.

It’s extremely frustrating to see how much you downplay/diminish Green’s crime here, especially because it’s totally unnecessary. This article is incredibly compelling and seems well researched. But seeing her crime described as Green unwittingly being a part of a murder for “giving him a ride,” it does a real…

This story would have been more effective if it wasn’t about a woman who was in year nine of her fifteen year sentence.
Perhaps someone serving three years for drugs.

Yes, it’s best for our society and for the children of these incarcerated women that they be allowed to spend the first year together in the prison nurseries. That being said, can we quit pretending that felony murderers are somehow sympathetic figures? They may not have pulled the trigger but they are responsible for…

I’m sure it’s due to the liability of a SIDS case. Despite its popularity, co-sleeping is considered a risk.

The Washington Post has a similar front page article today but with a different slant.

Well, I can kind of see it from the other side. Sexual assault is common in jail. So I’m guessing prohibiting inmates from touching one another is an effort, in the officials eyes, to reduce claims that someone was touched without their consent. Also inmates allowing contact between inmates would definitely increase…

Despite what this writer would like us to think, this regulation does a good job of balancing the interests of natal women and trans women. It’s not saying that biological sex is the ONLY criteria, it’s saying that it’s the initial determinant. It goes on to say that having determined by sex, the authorities must then…