The Movement To Release Battered Women From Prisons: Will This Continue?
QUESTION:
In regard to physical abuse, there seems to be a movement in the country now, a woman’s movement to get legislation to liberate these battered women who have been sentenced to jail for dispatching their husbands one way or another, after being subjected to a lifetime of physical abuse. Is this just another case of media stories, or does Awareness see this as something that is going to grow? For example, one governor has said that he’s considering releasing most of the women in the state penitentiary who have been sentenced and who have been spending many years in prison for...