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Criminal Justice System: Decisions

This Community Classroom module details the relationships between mothers in prison and the daughters left behind. The viewer watches as several girls visit their mothers in jail as part of a Girl Scout troop program and think about the ways that families are impacted by incarceration. Part of the Women and Girls Lead, Volume 3 curriculum titled Women, Girls and the Criminal Justice System.

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