We know their chances of going to prison are based on their third-grade reading exam. And then you have to go back and ask, why is it this third-grader can’t read? Is it possibly the fact that he was born prematurely, because the mother did not have access to prenatal care?” She pointed out that in South Carolina, one in every five counties doesn’t have a hospital; eleven counties don’t have a single ob/gyn. “The net has a big hole in it.”
