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“Most women involved in the criminal justice system are suffering from untreated trauma, mental illness and or drug addiction. They are homeless, unemployed and oftentimes victims of domestic violence. They have on average two to three children. Once they enter the criminal justice system, they are assessed with multiple fines and fees, most of which support the criminal justice system itself. If they are arrested, jailed or sent to prison, they rarely receive services to address any of the issues that entangled them in the first place.”
-Tulsa businessman Ed Martinez Jr., writing in the Tulsa World that the business community and the state as a whole needs to do more to reduce female incarceration (Source)
