{"id":7254,"date":"2017-03-17T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:19:52","slug":"can-congressional-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/can-congressional-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"“Women in Prison” in Congressional Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah Glazer has written a thorough report on Women in Prison for Congressional Quarterly<\/a>, citing CAN-DO, quoting CAN-DO President Amy Povah, and closing the article with the following:<\/p>\n

However, Povah, whose organization CAN-DO helped women prisoners file clemency petitions, expressed dismay at the small number of women \u2014 106 \u2014 who got clemency, just 6 percent of the total granted by Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men who drove the drug war are the ones getting clemency, even if they are four-time offenders. How is it that they get it and first-offender women are being denied?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

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Studies and reports focused on women in prison are extremely helpful. \u00a0CAN-DO is pleased with every scintilla of information that will educate the public about the plight that women suffer at the hands of a heartless criminal justice policy that locks up women, especially mothers for decades, even if they are a first offender and based upon testimony alone, no hard evidence. \u00a0But we want Congress to act. \u00a0No more studies – there is plenty of information available to draw from – FREE OUR WOMEN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Glazer has written a thorough report on Women in Prison for Congressional Quarterly, citing CAN-DO, quoting CAN-DO President Amy Povah, and closing the article with the following: However, Povah, whose organization CAN-DO helped women prisoners file clemency petitions, expressed dismay at the small number of women \u2014 106 \u2014 who got clemency, just 6…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,40,4],"tags":[27,39],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-foundation","tag-women-in-prison"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CQ-Press.png",244,254,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":30,"name":"Activism","slug":"activism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":30,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":30,"category_count":51,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Activism","category_nicename":"activism","category_parent":0},{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":39,"name":"women in prison","slug":"women-in-prison","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":33,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":30,"label":"Activism"},{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"},{"value":39,"label":"women in prison"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14737,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/14737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}