Prison Opens Baby Wing
Published: July 17, 2009
LAKING, W.Va.
The Lakin Correctional Center for Women has opened a new section where inmates can live with infants born in custody.
The Keeping Infant Development Successful, or KIDS, program started July 1. Officials at the mininum-security prison say the goal is to reduce recidivism by helping inmates make a successful transition when they complete their sentences.
Inmates will care for their children while living in the section and will receive educational and transitional programs. Prison officials say the program will help inmates establish a bond with
their infants.
Lakin is asking companies and individuals for donations of any items that will help it supply the new section with baby care products.
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I think that we should provide more money to the Mental Health Care system and the Foster system, rather than money towards making life easier in prison. You don’t get sent to prison lightly. It is because a person committed a serious crime and deserved to be punished as determined by a group of their peers. Why are we making life easier in prison?
I hope it works - there are already too many children in the foster care system, and most of the people who oppose the program aren’t fostering any of them.
What is wrong with this story???? If a woman is in prison, obviously she is not respectable to raise a child. Now the taxpayers are going to support babies in jail. What a country we live in.
cool now they will have baby jail birds
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