Pre-release and minimum security facilities connect incarcerated individuals to essential resources for re-entering society and to opportunities for work release, special leave, compassionate leave, and family leave. In the state of Maryland, there are nine separate pre-release and minimum security facilities for men; for women, there are zero. “At the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCI-W) in Jessup, Maryland,” as noted by the grassroots nonprofit Out for Justice, “as many as 1 in 10 women have achieved pre-release status. However, as many as 30% of the women on pre-release status have not been assigned to a work opportunity.”
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway and Charles Hopkins (Mansa Musa) speak with Nicole Hanson-Mundell, executive director of Out For Justice, about the Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act and the fight to add the construction of a standalone, community-based prerelease facility for women to the Department of Public and Correctional Service budget during their hearing on Feb. 17, 2022.
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Ok I was in jessup (doc) women’s prison. Please don’t make it a race issue because I’m Native American and I got treated like crap! Sick of this race card people pull that is a lie! Most of the guards are African American so all women are being treated bad!! So if you want to help ? Then help all!!!!
I was there for nine months. It's horrible. They have an entire building that's been condemned that they're still housing women in. They pay a huge fine to be able to house the women in it.
“If you want to abolish slavery. Abolish incarceration”
I am a former inmate of MCIW. I was housed in pre-released. Pre-released is suppose to be housed in an Annex. We were integrated with Maximum and Minimum security, which could be (and has been) dangerous.
It’s sicking how the justice treats women. BLACK women at that sun it comes to their male counterparts.
Change the battery in your smoke alarm.
All these racist comments from the whites smh
All women not just black women. Quit dividing people
IS THE STATE TREATING WORK RELEASE FUNDS the same across both genders ?! Where are these funds legally going and why ??
When the incarceration system is a money-generating beast and there is NO THOUGHT OR CARE for individuals who find themselves in a bad situation.
This country has some seriously sick individuals that make the laws for the rest of us or allow this disgusting behavior with doing anything to change the behavior. Government officials that have a narcissistic personality are a plague on this country and it’s beyond disgusting to know nothing will change for a long time unless those dirty disgusting politicians and government leaders are removed and replaced with people that have a conscience!
wait. Maryland. is that where the lab is? the lab where American developed the virus?
🤯🤐 That's horrible about the women having to get their children back immediately after being released from prison!!! Heartless to say the least!!! I guess what they had to endure during their time behind those brick walls wasn't enough!!! Then, IF, those mothers aren't equipped financially/economically/and socially to provide for those children a lot of people would be labeling them bad and irresponsible mothers?? That's how our society works in this country! This racist criminal (un) justice system has always set the Black Man and Black woman up for failure from the beginning! Just like racist America has done since it's inception!!! 😖😡
Obligatory "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" comment.
You lost me with "pandemic " out #freeTaya
Again, it is not about colour, race or sex! It is about the wealthy, and then the rest of us!
Hi!!! My name is Megan. I am a state of Delaware employee. I worked in the Delaware Veterans home. Id like to email a petition link we have against them please? Im trying to push it out into the media and unfortunately the political affiliations in this state prevent that. There have been 2 lawsuits won by individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community that are P.O.C.; several clear documented complaints of racism; discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying and abuse. Its disgusting and atrocious. My personal ptsd (law enforcement and family member) was intentionally triggered on the floor to "gauge if i lied". Still. That isnt the worst. They just signed on a building admin that believes the "past needs to be left at the dumpster" but 96% of the residents have ptsd. I do apologize. I dont want to detract from the importance of this subject. Ive recently been digging into kids growing up in the system. It breaks my heart. I saw a documentary on here. I feel so bad. Thank you for all you do! I love this channel but dont get to participate alot! I do appreciate all of you! Thanks!
This is 2022. There should be no such thing as humans kept in cages. It should not exist. You know how to end crime? Social services and support for the citizens. Free education just like every other developed country gives their citizens. That’s how you solve crime not by putting humans in cages and not with a punishment model. A society is supposed to evolve with research. The research is in. Are we going to evolve or stay in this state of Stone Age practices. ( actually even in the Stone Age they didn’t put humans in cages).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThVJrXZFSQ
In prison you are leagaly a SLAVE
You miss the point, we are still slaves and they could care less about a bill or bills period not unless they write them for themselves. Judah wake up.
Passed the bill, didn't fund the promised program(s). Doesn't that sound like a familiar ploy for plausible deniability? Politicians excel at this form of dangling the carrot 🥕, then applying the whip.