I think mothers in prison exists. They commit more or less the same crimes as men do, some worse than others and vice versa. Has an effect not just on children but wider society. I believe that prisoners can turn their lives around be it months, years or even a few decades. In my world, male prisoner, female prisoner it makes no difference. He/she committed a crime and should be locked up. The rebuilding process starts from there and as I said, it depends from individual to individual. Society I think must believe that women as well as men are unpredictable human beings. Can be good beings 50% of the time, bad on other times. No human including myself is perfect.

@@uhegbu But the thing is, women and men (and trans/non-binary people) do have very specific needs and situations. Women, by and large, are jailed for non-violent drug and property crimes, at a much higher rate than men. The majority of women in prison were the sole providers for their children before incarceration, whereas the same is not true for men. Women in jail lead directly to foster care and kinship care, but the same is not true for men in prison. Pregnancy, as well illustrated by this video, requires different care (nutritionally, physically, socially) for the people pregnant versus non-pregnant people. We all commit crimes every day. Heck, I jaywalked twice already today! Laws are often unfairly enforced due to human bias. Why do people need to be locked up when most often the crimes are related to survival or medical issues (because addiction is a medical issue)? Further, how does locking anyone up help to rehabilitate them, prepare them for re-entry into the world, or give them skills and resources to not make the same choices (and "choice" is a very loaded word here) as they did before?

They are also going to send her to rehab even though she passed the drug test upon arriving at the prison and has been completely clean for months and when she told them that in court the judge looked at the probation office and asked if she actually was clean from drugs but neither one of them even knew and then proceeded to sentence her even though she was not assigned a attorney at all and now she was assigned a attorney but they won't answer any calls or anything at all and has never even spoke to her once at all

The majority of women in prison are there for non-violent crimes- primarily drugs and property offenses. Prison doesn't prepare women with the resources or skills to prevent those crimes once they are released. Do prisons exist to only punish, or do we want them to re-connect positively with their community and family and seek out resources to prevent recidivism once released?