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Beyond bars: community-based responses to gender violence.(feature)
Before Misty Rojo moved out to escape her husband's battering, he told her he would rather kill her than see her with someone else. After 10 years of this kind of abuse, Rojo feared for her life and bought a gun. She moved into her own home, sleeping every night with a knife under pillow, she says. But her next-door neighbor was another battered woman. Tormented by nightmares of her past and the constant sound of beatings from the house next door, Rojo snapped. She shot the woman's batterer.
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Rojo is now imprisoned at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla and is a board member of Justice Now of Oakland, California, ...
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