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Guilty of loving you. Hello, hello, hello, welcome to Criminal Broads,

a podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. As you know, the subtitle of this podcast

is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. We do not always talk about women on the wrong side of the law.

Sometimes we talk about women on the right side of the law.

And today we're going to talk about a woman who got tangled up in the law.

And I would venture to say that the person, the thing that was wrong in this instance was not the woman, but was the law itself.

So you guys, this podcast often focuses on really extreme crimes that are outliers, right? Like the front page stuff,

serial killers, con women, Casey Anthony. but that's not really an accurate representation of what the

criminal justice system looks like today or has ever looked like. The criminal justice system

has never been packed with serial killers. I hope you know that. Most of the women who are

moving through the criminal justice system are not serial killers,

and they certainly aren't Casey Anthony, and there are a lot of them, a lot of women moving through

the criminal justice system. Today, there are more women than ever moving through this system.

Let me just tell you some quick stats. Between 1980 and 2019, the number of women who were

incarcerated rose by more than 700%. Okay? So in 1980, there were just over 26,000 women locked up

in the country. 26,000 women. In 2019, there were over 222,000 women locked up. That is an incredible

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