Does anyone actually feel sorry for her? I thought it was more of a tactic hoping the judge would give her a more lenient sentence if she had a kid
The vast majority of women in the US prison system are mothers. Nearly 60% of women in the country’s prisons have minor children, and so do 80% of those who are in jail. A large number of them have not even been convicted of a crime, but can’t afford to pay bail. They are overwhelmingly poor, women of color, and disproportionately Black—they couldn’t be more different from Holmes.
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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.
that we feel bad for this one shows the power of white privilege
Who is ‘we’?
