23: Prison and Pregnancy

23: Prison and Pregnancy

By Nancy Mullane / Panoply

United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of incarcerated women enter prison pregnant. What happens to the babies born in the correctional system? What happens to the children left behind, as their mothers serve out their sentences? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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