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Read News: In Ohio, Inmate Mothers Care For Babies In Prison

By The Sentencing Project

NPR’s “Morning Edition” is airing a three-part series examining the composition of the expanding U.S. prison population. Today’s segment featured the Ohio Reformatory for Women, where a dozen babies spend time with their incarcerated mothers – part of a program that enables incarcerated mothers to raise their children in their cells. Women are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. prison population. At the Ohio Reformatory, the warden estimates that 75 percent of the 2,300 inmates housed there are mothers. There are only a handful of similar programs at institutions across the country, which are aimed at reducing recidivism rates. Posted Date:8/13/2008 5:12:41 PM

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).