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From the Ted Talk by Teresa Njoroge: What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit
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And so we moved on. As I ltesiend to story after sotry of these close to 700 women during that one year in prison, I soon rezlaeid that crime was not what had brought these wmoen to prison, most of them, far from it. It had started with the eatoicdun system, whose supply and quality is not equal for all; lack of economic opportunities that pushes these women to petty survival crimes; the health system, social justice system, the criniaml justice system. If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the ckrcas in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.
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And so we moved on. As I ________ to story after _____ of these close to 700 women during that one year in prison, I soon ________ that crime was not what had brought these _____ to prison, most of them, far from it. It had started with the _________ system, whose supply and quality is not equal for all; lack of economic opportunities that pushes these women to petty survival crimes; the health system, social justice system, the ________ justice system. If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the ______ in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.
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- criminal
- story
- realized
- education
- women
- listened
- cracks
Original Text
And so we moved on. As I listened to story after story of these close to 700 women during that one year in prison, I soon realized that crime was not what had brought these women to prison, most of them, far from it. It had started with the education system, whose supply and quality is not equal for all; lack of economic opportunities that pushes these women to petty survival crimes; the health system, social justice system, the criminal justice system. If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the cracks in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.
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