The Senator's Wife

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Prolog

A decades-long shift in the American political and legal systems to an ultraconservative fundamentalist government has changed the nation profoundly. It started with President Bush’s Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and culminated in a patriarchy in which women were practically chattel. The press became a tool of the government, allowing events to occur without scrutiny or publicity. The Prison-Industrial Complex became a major revenue generator as well as a political force. Employers made billions of dollars of excess profits employing inmates. Captive workers received neither wages nor benefits. Politicians remained in office by doing everything possible to appear tougher on crime than their opponents. Parole and early release were abolished. New laws with tougher mandatory sentences proliferated to satisfy the public’s demand for safety from crime, punishment for miscreants and the ever-increasing needs of the Prison-Industrial Complex. Three Strike Laws mandating life in prison were invoked against everyone convicted of three crimes, whether felonies or misdemeanors. Of the twelve million Americans incarcerated, over forty percent were women. Many were serving lengthy or life sentences for performing or receiving abortions, bearing children out of wedlock, committing adultery and other non-violent offenses. The privatized prison system was run on a for-profit basis. The prison-based economy was dependent on an ever-increasing number of slave laborers. Thomas Jefferson’s warning that a people willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserved neither had long been forgotten.

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The Senator's Wife