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Lullabies Behind Bars In a few innovative prisons, babies find a safe haven with their moms

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NATIONAL NEWS | fall 2008 Ms. Magazine Lullabies Behind Bars In a few innovative prisons, babies find a safe haven with their moms By Beth Schwartzapfel It's midday on a recent Tuesday, and Rachael Irwin, 27, scurries across the floor on her hands and knees, playing peekaboo with her 10-month-old daughter, Gabriella. The baby?s big blue eyes dance with delight. Like many children her age, Gabriella is in day care. Unlike most children her age, though, Gabriella is in prison. She and her mother are participating in the Bedford Hills (N.Y.) Correctional Facility?s nursery program, one of only nine programs in the country that allow incarcerated women to keep their babies with them after they give birth. Nationwide, nearly 2 million children have parents in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).