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Helping Mothers and Children Stay Connected-During and After Prison Coalition for Women Prisoners helps bring Family Reunion Program to New York's largest prison for women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Helping Mothers and Children Stay Connected-During and After Prison Coalition for Women Prisoners helps bring Family Reunion Program to New York's largest prison for women September 2008 Correctional Association of NY The Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) has begun the process of establishing a Family Reunion Program (FRP)?which allows incarcerated people to have extended, overnight visits with family?at Albion Correctional Facility, New York?s largest prison for women. Our Women in Prison Project (WIPP) and its Coalition for Women Prisoners have long pressed for the implementation of an FRP at Albion and, with the efforts and full support of DOCS and Commissioner Brian Fischer, helped secure an allocation of $200,000 for the program in this year?s State Budget...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).