"Failure to Protect" laws put women in prison for violence men committed. Women can and do legitimately "fail" and struggle to protect themselves from violence of a male partner (e.g. domestic violence), and should not on top of that be jailed for being unable to protect (multiple) other humans from that same violence. Women should not be jailed for others' actions and others' violence. In Oklahoma, a woman, Tondalo Hall, is being jailed for 30 years on these counts, with parole denied again recently, while the male who actually committed the acts of violence against the children and the woman served 2 years and was free. This is currently the law in many states. We need federal protection so that women are not held accountable nor jailed for men's actions.
Why is this important?
A woman was jailed for 30 years for an act of a man, who served only 2 years for the same act. This needs to stop. This is currently the law in too many (29) states and they are called "Failure to Protect" laws. In 7 states, LIFE IN PRISON can be a sentence for a woman for a man's violence.
