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Albany, NY –
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On this week's program:
There are more than 97 thousand women in prisons around the United States today. That's according to the Women's Prison Association, an advocacy group for incarcerated women. Women are the fastest growing segment of the prison population. How do we reduce those numbers... and help women behind bars get out and start over. Officials in the state of New York have been thinking about that lately, and they met recently in the State Capital in Albany to push for REFORM in STATE'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 51%'s STEVE FELANO HAS MORE.
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If you haven't gotten to it yet... it's probably weighing on your mind. Yes, it's time...once again...to do the taxes.
So if you've put it off up till now, is there anything you can still do to make your life a little easier. Financial expert Susan Sweetser says- maybe...
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She wrote what many consider to be the bible of modern feminism...so why do some folks know her simply as Sartre's girlfriend. In our ongoing look at how our feminist foremothers dealt with the pressures of their time... some of which are still pressures today...we took a look at the life of Simone de Beauvoir with Lori Marso. Marso is the author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women
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And before we go, Kate Mulgrew has the story of another woman who dared to live an alternative life, in this week's installment of, Herstory .
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