So do you know that in social science data, that women who are able and in power to communicate with their children, that it benefits society in multiple ways, lowers recidivism rates, lowers the rates of those children themselves being disciplined at school, lowers the rates at which those children are expelled from school, lowers the rates in which those children are incarcerated themselves?
Booker emphasizes the societal benefits of communication between incarcerated women and their children.
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