[act-ma] 5/13 MARIANNE BULLOCK - "Unshackle Mothers: Realities of Incarcerated Moms"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, May 13, 2012
11:00am

Mothers' Day
MARIANNE BULLOCK
"Unshackle Mothers: Realities of Incarcerated Moms"

Governor Patrick has issued a bond to construct two new women's jails and
expand the jail in Chicopee Massachusetts, a project of stealing women from
their children. 85% of women who are incarcerated are mothers. Pregnant
women and mothers in child birth are not protected from the violence of
steel shackles here in Massachusetts. It is these realities that we will
discuss today.

Marianne Bullock is co-founder of the Prison Birth Project. The Prison Birth
Project (PBP) is a reproductive justice organization providing support,
education, advocacy, and activism training to women at the intersection of
the criminal justice system and motherhood. In prison, 4-7% of women are
pregnant, the same percentage as in the wider population; 85% are mothers,
and 25% were pregnant upon arrest or gave birth in the previous year.

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