Interview with Laura, the Mother of a Female Inmate

I met Laura on one of the prison groups I moderate, Prison Movement. I had posted an article about a Massachusetts man who received a short sentence for murder. The murder occurred during a fight. Laura was outraged to read this because her daughter who killed no one received a 7-life term.

These were Laura's words "This so called justice system is insane!! My child got LIFE and was not even in the room that the crime was committed. Also no one DIED. I have been asking myself for years how these things can and DO happen. This person actually killed someone and got 10 years? How is that justice? People in the judging game should actually have common sense before being given that type of job. Our system needs some serious reform."

I posted back to Laura explaining that Massachusetts does a lot of "Plea Bargaining" to avoid a costly trial, and many fights resulting in murder get reduced to manslaughter. She again replied back to me: "Thanks for your kind words. I am really very angry about this as you can probably tell, and I did not mention the fact that the actual perpetrator was released because he wore a ski mask and could not be identified. I was incredulous about this at the trial and the lawyers told me, " what can you do, he was a smarter crook."

So, we decide to do a brief interview for the public to read what happened to Loraine, Laura's daughter.

Could you give us a Bio of your daughter Loraine who is incarcerated?