By Hanna Roos

Thousands of women sit in prison because they fought back against an abusive person in their lives, but they don’t always get to share their stories in court, said panelists Feb. 24 at the Cornell Law School.

“Physical, sexual and psychological violence are fundamental, underlying reasons for women’s incarceration,” said panelist Tamar Kraft-Stolar, director of the Women in Prison Project at the Correctional Association of New York, a nonprofit criminal justice policy advocacy organization, speaking at the event “Barriers to Justice Faced by Domestic Violence Survivors as Criminal Defendants and Incarcerated Women.”

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