"5 Things to Know About How Survivors Get Incarcerated for Their Abusers’ Crimes"

From The Marshall Project, via NACDL's news update:

Every state in the U.S. has a version of “accomplice liability” — laws that allow someone to be punished for assisting or supporting another person who commits a crime, in some cases, even if that participation is under the threat of violence.

A recent Marshall Project investigation found survivors of domestic and sexualized violence are particularly vulnerable to prosecution under these laws because of the control their abusers hold over them.