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How the system fixes our women

It was hard to miss her from the crowd. She was the most cheerful, engaging in animated discussions with the rest.

She was there whiling away in her striped uniform, missing her three “little ones”, as she put it. She was young, angry, full of energy and hunger. Angry that she can do little to help herself. Hungry to do something worthwhile with her life, if ever she walks out of the jail man’s gates.

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