Yeah, this wasn’t the best framing for this discussion. I think there’s something to be said about the awareness she gets and how it’s a little frustrating to read media coverage that acts like we’ve never sent a mother to prison before and don’t do it all the time to poor people, and frankly I’ll jump on any opportunity to raise the “I don’t want to live in a country that routinely violates human rights in its prisons” discussion, but the headline might have overreached a bit.
Literally no one is extending sympathy to Holmes. The closest I have seen is mild concern for her children. Talk about creating strawmen.
Yeah, this wasn’t the best framing for this discussion. I think there’s something to be said about the awareness she gets and how it’s a little frustrating to read media coverage that acts like we’ve never sent a mother to prison before and don’t do it all the time to poor people, and frankly I’ll jump on any opportunity to raise the “I don’t want to live in a country that routinely violates human rights in its prisons” discussion, but the headline might have overreached a bit.