Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse.
Even in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time
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Even in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time
Though a Washington state judge said a guardian ad litem failed to do her job, by then, the child’s mother says, the damage had already been done.
Incarceration rates are rising, and inmates say they’re being punished for the state’s failures to manage prison capacity
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