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Nine US prisons allow incarcerated mothers to keep their kids - for a while Pregnant cons are allowed to give birth
by
Mara Shiavocampo
MSNBC
April 12, 2010
Nine American prisons now allow non-violent offenders to keep their babies with them for up to 18 months after giving birth. After that the child is removed from its mother and sent home. Many prisons allow women who are pregnant at the time of their jailing to give birth in the facility.
The programs are deemed by some as controversial, and by others as compassionate.
Studies show prison-moms seem to be less likely to be problematic inmates, and that babies and toddlers reared by their moms do better.
