I had a conversation this morning with two women who have been living on the streets in the City of Brotherly Love. They explained to me that women are routinely released from the local women's prison in the middle of the night and are not given their ID or their money or their cell phone back and must come back another day to receive these items.
When they leave the grounds of the Philadelphia women's prison there is typically a line of men in cars looking to pick them up for "dates". Some of these women, because they desperately need money and have not been given their money back by the prison from which they were just released, will involve themselves in that date for money.
According to these women, it's not unusual to have some these men be undercover policeman waiting to arrest these women for prostitution. They end up being arrested and put back in jail for that crime.
Dear Philadelphia prison system,
Please stop releasing your Daughters of the City of the American Revolution in the middle of the night. Also, please give them their ID and cell phone, money and all possessions that they came in with back to them immediately upon their discharge from your facilities. Do not make it a requirement that they come back another day.
Thank you.
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