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Imprisoned Moms Are Keeping Kids

Posted May 10, 08 7:23 PM CDT in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – More states are imprisoning babies, and moms couldn't be happier: Prisons nationwide are allowing incarcerated mothers to keep their little ones, the AP reports. Opponents of the practice say the kids may be traumatized, but one researcher found that “the outcomes are promising, if the prison nursery programs have the appropriate resources.”

Purported benefits aren’t just for kids: One Ohio prison’s program has seen participants’ recidivism rates fall to 11%, 21% below the prison's average. And the plans are multiplying as more women are imprisoned, largely due to mandatory sentences with drug convictions. “Out there it's a little bit more chaotic," one mom in prison said. “We're enjoying this time right now, we really are."

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Serena Garduza, 31, holds her son Ramerio in her cell.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
An inmate from San Salvador's women jail pushes her baby into an area of the prison.   (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
Garduza as she walks the hall in her unit.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Melissa Lankey, 31, of Columbus, Ind., kisses her son Kevin Cadin Michael DuLong, 3 weeks, in the Wee Ones Nursery unit.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Ramerio Garduza, 2 weeks, sleeps in the day room in the Wee Ones Nursery unit at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
A crib sits in the cell of an inmate.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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