On bail for 19 years, son born in jail works to raise $172 bond for mother

[jakeXT]

(CNN) -- In a story that could step straight from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel, an Indian son has worked night and day in a garment factory to earn the bail money to get his mother out of jail.

This month, after ceaseless work stitching in the textile factory, Kanhaiya Kumari, 19, raised the 5,000 rupees (about $89) needed pay his mother's surety.

His mother Vijaya Kumari, 48, was five months pregnant with Kanhaiya when she was arrested in 1993 in connection with the murder of a neighbor in India's Aligarh district, according to CNN affiliate IBN.

Sentenced to life in prison, she denied the charges and in 1994 she was granted bail pending her appeal, but her husband refused to post the Rs5,000 bail money.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/india-bail/index.html

[jtuck004]

1. A year in a garment factory to earn enough to save $89 for bail.

We spend that much on lunch in a week sometimes. They do those reforms in their justice system.

But it make it even more clear why the lobbyists for the Immigration reform act of 2013 worked so hard to raise the cap on the number of H1-b and other work visas. These folks can work a job for a 1/10 of what someone here is paid, and believe they are doing better, while the owners are making out like bandits. Or Mi$$ RobMe.

[HiPointDem]

2. plus the son was in the prison system until he became an adult. for what? that's a terrible,

awful story. my god.

Both mother and son remained in Nari Niketan prison in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until Kanhaiya was sent to a juvenile remand home at the age of 6. He was released last year after spending seven years separated from his mother and immediately set about getting a job that would pay for his mother's bail.

[malaise]

3. Life for the poor of the earth

is frightening