November 21, 2023
Dear editor;
Mothers in prison rarely see their families.
I find Jill McCorkel’s November 14 article, “Mothers in prison rarely see their families” puzzling. For some reason, she decided to single out mothers and exclude fathers. Was this inadvertent? Seems unlikely because there are nine times as many men in prison than women, which implies that the scale of the problem is greater for fathers. Did she decide that it’s not nearly as important for imprisoned fathers to see their families? She must have had a good reason, but for the life of me, I can’t think of one.
Craig Zabel, Sugar Grove