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OK: Good News Theresa Lee Hernandez

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Empowering Oklahoma women & girls Monday, November 24, 2008 Theresa Lee Hernandez- Follow-up Dear Amici, Activists, and Allies: We are so pleased to let you know that on November 19, 2008, after serving only one year from the date of sentencing, Theresa Lee Hernandez was released from prison. As you know, Ms. Hernandez was arrested in 2004 and charged with first-degree murder (a crime with a potential penalty of 25 years-to-life imprisonment) and second-degree murder for having suffered a stillbirth. The state claimed -- without any scientific basis -- that the stillbirth was caused by her methamphetamine use. In 2007, as her case approached trial, national and state-based organizations, advocates and experts organized, educated and spoke out against the prosecution...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).