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Prison Shouldn’t be a Bar to Motherhood

By Rachel Roth ● Crime & Law ● July 22, 2010

Rigid foster care rules threaten to dissolve family ties when mothers are in prison or residential drug treatment. A new law in New York State takes steps to help these families weather the separation.

Women’s Rights Don’t Stop at Jailhouse Door

By Rachel Roth ● Crime & Law ● August 31, 2005

An incarcerated woman had her right to have an abortion vindicated last week when an Arizona judge overruled a local sheriff. But as Rachel Roth writes, that right is far too tenuous for too many jailed women.