Women do their time differently from men. I don t want to ever imply that conditions for men are better or that conditions for women are worse. Those are meaningless dichotomies. For men the isolation is horrendous and people literally go nuts being so isolated. For women I would argue that it takes on an even more significant dimension because of the way that gender differences play out in society.
Women often turn to each other for support and basic survival in ways that men don t do as often.
In my mind, this is a horrendous situation. They were separated by a wooden partition in county jail. She did what any kid of that age would do, she reached up and went for her mother. The guard harshly reprimanded the child, not the mother. My client said, It wasn t her fault, it was mine.