Childcare can create complications for any working parent, but for Shalice Williams, the stakes were especially high: she was due to check in with her probation officer and was told she couldn’t bring her three children. 'The children are not allowed into the office, and so me not being able to
Childcare can create complications for any working parent, but for Shalice Williams, the stakes were especially high: she was due to check in with her probation officer and was told she couldn’t bring her three children.
"It was a beautiful feeling, for people who did not know me, to come and get me out for Mother’s Day," Williams, who is now 25 years old, told ABC News. "Cash bail is one of the main drivers of mass incarceration in the U.S. and it disproportionally impacts black and low income communities," said National Bail Out’s Arissa Hall, who is working on the campaign.
Across the country, the number of women in U.S. jails increased 14-fold between 1970 and 2014, swelling from just under 8,000 women to almost 110,000 nationwide, according to the latest federal data.
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