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It was summer when Rachel Snyder started showing up in women's prisons all across California with a survey and some snacks. There are a couple of these

institutions. The biggest is known as the Central California Women's Facility. It's out in

Central California. It's surrounded by almond groves and desert. It's hot, hot, hot. I mean, like,

Iraq hot, right? Middle East hot. In fact, in July of

2024, a woman collapsed in the yard during one of the big heat waves that summer and died.

You were there to talk to murderers, right? I was there to talk to, yeah, women who had been, or women identifying inmates who had been convicted of manslaughter, murder.

There's, you know, a lot of charges within that, but they were all in for homicide.

Rachel is a journalist, but she teamed up with Stanford University to do some research.

The big question that we were trying to get at was, did domestic violence intersect with their

conviction? So in other words, had they not been a victim of domestic violence, would that crime have happened?

To figure this out, Rachel was asking some incredibly personal questions about who these

incarcerated women had been partnered up with before prison and how that person treated them.

Were they choked? Beaten? Was he jealous or unemployed?

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