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For the Booker sisters, whenever Malishia Booker, their mother, went to jail, it seemed as though they were also being punished. Throughout their lives, they endured foster care, bouncing between relatives and toughing it out on their own. Critics say children of jailed women often get lost in a criminal justice system that doesn’t count or track them. Kylia Booker was photographed her sisters’ home in Denton, Texas Monday June 12, 2017. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

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