This year 125,000 incarcerated moms are being kept from their children. 60% of them are in jail due to the inability to afford bail- not even convicted of any crime! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHgdDY91W8

Whenever this subject comes up I would like to remind people that in other places assassination, murder, executions and disappearances; all without trial, are more common. So at least when you are incarcerated you have a life to advance verses an abrupt sentence.

Fiona Apple just released a song about this: https://youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8