Instead of protecting children, an Oklahoma law incarcerates mothers for being victims of violence or poverty.
,” Jasmine Sankofa, policy and research manager for FWD.us, which advocates for criminal justice reform, told. But, she added, “a lot of the gains from reforms have focused on nonviolent offenses, low-level property and drug offenses. It’s time for Oklahoma to shift and focus on other offenses that are really driving the women’s prison population.”
The state’s child abuse and neglect statute … encompasses a broad range of circumstances, including … having a partner who injures or kills a child. Indigenous women are sentenced to prison 2.6 times more often, and Black women 1.9 times more often, than their white counterparts for child neglect. That’s what Tondalao Hall learned. Hall, then age 20 and a Black mother of three, had been trying to end her relationship with her abusive boyfriend, Robert Braxton. He choked her, punched her, threw objects at her and verbally abused her.
In 2002, Geneva Phillips, a white mother of three, had separated from her children’s father. He proposed that, despite their separation, she and their children, then ages 8, 4 and 3, continue their family tradition of celebrating July 4 at Lake Tenkiller. Phillips agreed.
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