Prison Nursery Programs a Growing Trend in Women’s Prisons (WPA)

(Hat Tip to Corrections.com E-zine)

Many Mothers and Babies Could Also Succeed in Community-Based Programs

"The Women’s Prison Association (WPA) has released the first-ever national report on prison nursery programs. The report examines the expansion of prison nursery programs across the U.S. These programs allow incarcerated women to keep their newborns with them in prison for a finite period of time. The report also looks at community-based residential parenting programs, which allow women to serve criminal justice sentences with their infants in a non-prison setting." READ ON...

The report, Mothers, Infants and Imprisonment: A National Look at Prison Nurseries and Community–Based Alternatives, is available online at www.wpaonline.org.