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Submit your thoughts on TROOP 1500.
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- The girls in TROOP 1500 are, in many ways, luckier than other young women whose mothers are in prison. Many other children are unable to see their parents for the duration of the jail sentence. Whose responsibility is it to keep that bond alive—the courts, the penal system's or the families'?
- Filmmaker Ellen Spiro says of TROOP 1500, “I hope that the public will become aware of how incarceration punishes children for crimes they did not commit.”
Should parental visitations be a right or a privilege?
- Prisoners have no say as to where they're sent, and in an age of prison overcrowding, many are sent hundreds of miles away from where their children live, making visits difficult if not impossible. Do prisoners have a right to be housed in a facility near their families?
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