Aurora Sky Castner, a Texas teen who was born in jail and graduated at the top of her class this week, will be attending Harvard University in the fall
“A criminal”. Society decides who is a criminal, and decides to let a baby be born in a prison.
You didn’t even ask why the woman was in prison in the first place before deciding she was the problem, so you’re believing society’s branding of her as a criminal. Gee, I wonder if attitudes like that make it harder on someone who was born in prison?
So the fact that the US has the largest prison system in history, with nearly 1% of its entire population imprisoned, and nearly 25% of the entire world’s prison population, doesn’t make you think that maybe society has some role in deciding how many people get sent to prison? Do you think that the US is just somehow filled with an especially “criminal” class of person?
And going to prison does enormous harm to individuals. You don’t know what that woman’s life might’ve been like without prison, without the poverty that prison causes, or without the poverty-to-prison pipeline, without having her daughter forcibly taken away from her.
And of course she’s a criminal, but that’s a legal status. There isn’t some separate lower class of human being that is a “criminal”. You seem to be talking as if she is a “criminal” in some other sense of the word.
“Awful circumstances”.
What were the circumstances? Why would most people fail in those circumstances?
Being born to a criminal?? In a jail no less?
Generational trauma is hard to escape.
“A criminal”. Society decides who is a criminal, and decides to let a baby be born in a prison.
You didn’t even ask why the woman was in prison in the first place before deciding she was the problem, so you’re believing society’s branding of her as a criminal. Gee, I wonder if attitudes like that make it harder on someone who was born in prison?
I am making the assumption that she wasn’t wrongfully imprisoned, yes. The only context I have to go on is that she’s never spoken to her daughter.
Why are you assuming she wasn’t a criminal? Are white women statistically likely to be sent to jail for minor crimes?
So the fact that the US has the largest prison system in history, with nearly 1% of its entire population imprisoned, and nearly 25% of the entire world’s prison population, doesn’t make you think that maybe society has some role in deciding how many people get sent to prison? Do you think that the US is just somehow filled with an especially “criminal” class of person?
And going to prison does enormous harm to individuals. You don’t know what that woman’s life might’ve been like without prison, without the poverty that prison causes, or without the poverty-to-prison pipeline, without having her daughter forcibly taken away from her.
And of course she’s a criminal, but that’s a legal status. There isn’t some separate lower class of human being that is a “criminal”. You seem to be talking as if she is a “criminal” in some other sense of the word.