Though the stay-at-home orders have given abusers more hours in the day and more ammunition for abuse, the situation doesn’t cause the violence. Instead, it aggravates cycles of abuse and the existing failings in the United States’ justice system.
Author: Dawn Trook
Dawn Trook is a faculty member in the writing program at University of California, Merced and also teaches in a degree completion program at the California Correctional Women’s Facility.