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<div id="title" class="title"><h1>The actual number of Americans jailed or imprisoned, about 2.3 million</h1><span id="counter" class="counter"></span></div>
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We spend over $13 billion per year incarcerating domestic abusers and treating their victims. [<a class="citation" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/MKorostoff/incarceration-in-real-numbers/blob/master/SOURCES.md#violence-against-women"></a>] Meanwhile, the Violence Against Women Act sets aside about half a billion for prevention. <em>Why?</em> Why is there infinite money for idiotic catch-and-release policies that guarantee re-victimization, when we all know that the real solution is a <a href="https://safehousingpartnerships.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/TransHousingServices.pdf" target="_blank">path to safety</a> for victims of domestic violence?
We spend over $13 billion per year incarcerating domestic abusers and treating their victims. [<a class="citation" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/MKorostoff/incarceration-in-real-numbers/blob/master/SOURCES.md#violence-against-women"></a>] Meanwhile, the Violence Against Women Act sets aside about half a billion for prevention. <em>Why?</em> Why is there infinite money for idiotic catch-and-release policies that guarantee re-victimization, when we all know that the real solution is a <a href="https://safehousingpartnerships.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transitional-Housing-Services-for-Victims-of-Domestic-Violence.pdf" target="_blank">path to safety</a> for victims of domestic violence?
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<div class="table-cell"><span>Arrest the husband, hold him overnight. Release him when she declines to press charges, because she can't make rent without him. Keep arresting him every other week. Offer him a voluntary alcohol treatment program that he declines. Spend $13 billion per year jailing abusers and treating their victims. [<a class="citation" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/MKorostoff/incarceration-in-real-numbers/blob/master/SOURCES.md#violence-against-women"></a>]</span></div>
<div class="table-cell"><span>Give her access to <a href="https://safehousingpartnerships.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/TransHousingServices.pdf" target="_blank">transitional housing</a> so that she can permanently escape her abuser. Provide her with free child care so that she can work enough to become independent. [<a class="citation" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/MKorostoff/incarceration-in-real-numbers/blob/master/SOURCES.md#violence-against-women"></a>]</span></div>
<div class="table-cell"><span>Give her access to <a href="https://safehousingpartnerships.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transitional-Housing-Services-for-Victims-of-Domestic-Violence.pdf" target="_blank">transitional housing</a> so that she can permanently escape her abuser. Provide her with free child care so that she can work enough to become independent. [<a class="citation" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/MKorostoff/incarceration-in-real-numbers/blob/master/SOURCES.md#violence-against-women"></a>]</span></div>
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