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...with custody of their children. By contrast, 60% of male state prisoners are fathers, and less than half have custodial responsibility. Though a convicted drug dealer hardly fits the stereotype of a good mother, jailed mothers say separation from their offspring is the harshest punishment. Their alternatives are grim: put the children up for adoption, release them for foster care or, most often, leave them with relatives...
...often all but inaccessible by public transportation. When children do manage to get there, the sessions can be heartrending. Some facilities, including the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution at Hardwick, where Rachals is housed, have created bright, toy-filled visiting rooms, but more often the quarters are grim and frightening. In Chicago's Cook County jail, a thick glass pane separates family visitors from prisoners. "It's a terrifying thing for a child to reach out and try to touch his mother, and find out he can't," says Gail Smith, who heads Chicago Legal Aid to Incarcerated Mothers...
...rely heavily on exports, would be seriously undermined. So would the chances of organizing alliances to deal with such international crises as the face-off in the Persian Gulf. A breakthrough is still possible, Hills declares, "because the upside is so fantastic and the downside of failure is so grim." But the odds of success, she says, are only slightly better than even...
...however, looks unenforceable. Meanwhile, new problems keep piling up: a threat of another coal miners' strike and a declaration of economic sovereignty by the Far Eastern region of Yakutia, a part of the Russian Republic. No wonder rumormongering is so popular. Gossipy speculation can be a welcome relief from grim reality...
Then he saw a solution--a panicky, dangerously short-sighted solution that ignores grim realities about America's economic vulnerability...