1. Should the Incarceration of Pregnant Women be Avoided?
Two thirds of these female inmates are mothers of children younger than age 18. ... Most get to see their children only on weekends, seldom or never because within hours of delivery, they"re newborn infant will be removed from their care and placed with relatives or foster parents. These infants are often unable to visit their mothers because they are returned to the mother's county of commitment, which in most cases is geographically distant from where the woman is being incarcerated. ... (Sack, 1997) In the California mother-infant program women must have a child under three and ...
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