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Outrageous but TRUE!: CA- Some women have their teeth pulled to be able to reunite with their children

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A painful choice for moms in prison SOME HAVE TEETH PULLED TO LIVE WITH KIDS By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau Article Launched: 04/18/2008 01:30:41 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - Sarina Borg had a tough choice to make. She could wait for months, maybe more than a year, to have her rotting teeth repaired by a dentist. Or she could get them pulled to be reunited with her baby daughter. In California women's prisons, dozens if not hundreds of inmates like Borg are faced with the same wrenching decision: To gain access to a host of vocational-training and drug-rehabilitation programs for non-violent offenders - including a course that teaches them parenting skills while living with their children in special housing - they must be cleared of any pre-existing health problems...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).