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A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court
One incarcerated woman set out to understand how many others at Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center had cases like hers. Their stories helped shape a new state law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work?
The law did not automatically reduce survivors’ sentences. Instead, it created a mechanism for them to petition for relief — requiring them to demonstrate that domestic abuse was a “substantial contributing factor” in their offense and leaving the ultimate decision to a judge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-survey-domestic-violencePublished at
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