“We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make the system. The system says, ‘You are innocent until proven guilty.’”
When these pregnant folks are forced to continue pregnancies they wanted to terminate, they’re not then continuing these pregnancies in environments where they have access to consistent and quality prenatal care or where they can birth with dignity.
In the fall of 2010, at a table in Danbury’s prison yard, five women decided that incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women needed to be part of the process of drafting and advocating for legislation that affects their lives and freedom. And so was started the real life organization, Families for Justice as Healing.
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