In a fugue state, she'd set fire to the house, but as it went up in flames, she became lucid. Realizing what she'd done, she called the fire department and ran out of the house. She was waiting on the lawn when they arrived.
What she needed was mental health treatment; what she got was a cell. Her story isn't rare.
A March 2024 Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) report on women and incarceration concluded that 80% of women in state prisons are mothers.
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