Editor’s Note: The following essay is a condensed version of a longer essay that appeared first in National Affairs. Last year, A&E ran a reality program called “Born Behind Bars,” which provides a ...

Lindsay Landon beamed as her 10-month-old son, Gabriel, scooted across a playroom. He crawled over to a baby walker, proudly pulled himself up to stand — then promptly fell over. Lip quivering, he ...

Over half of all women in U.S. prisons are mothers, as are 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply because they can’t afford bail. It is estimated that up to 2 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — IMPD Ofc. Breann Leath will be forever remembered at the nursery in an Indiana prison. Gov. Eric Holcomb talked about Leath at the start of his daily coronavirus press conference ...

Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. Shortly after she finished laboring in the hospital ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Out of more than 100 women’s prisons in the U.S., only eight have nursery programs that ...

Missouri is now the 10th state in the country that has a nursery imbedded within its Department of Corrections. “I got to stay with her for 48 hours, and then my husband came to get her. It was the ...

All that is keeping West Virginia prison authorities from opening a nursery at Lakin Correctional Facility to allow pregnant inmates to bond with their children behind bars is $35,000 in federal money ...

CHARLESTON — Critics say prison is intended to punish society’s wrongdoers. West Virginia Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein is keenly aware the idea of letting female inmates keep newborns with ...