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Battered Women in Prison
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 10
Every fifteen seconds a woman in the U.S. is beaten. One California state prison study found that 93 percent of women who had killed their mates had been battered by them. There are approximately 650 women in California state prisons for killing their abusers.
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Resources,
Sentencing,
Pardons/Clemency.
Location:
California.
The California Coalition for Battered Women …
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