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From National Advocates for Pregnant Women: a victory in the Texas v. Lovill case!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From National Advocates for Pregnant Women: a victory in the Texas v. Lovill case! (January 27, 2009) www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org In this case, Amber Lovill's probation was revoked because the State thought that sending her to jail would protect her fetus. Ms. Lovill had been on probation for forgery. A condition of probation was not using any illegal drugs. Ms. Lovill was in fact working hard to achieve abstinence, but experienced a relapse on the road to recovery. This relapse constituted a probation violation. Typically probation officers do not recommend putting a person in jail for this kind of probation violation. Rather, they typically seek to increase the number of drug screens that the probationer must submit to, or increase the amount of drug treatment that a person is required to attend...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).