06/30/2025
Good morning friends! Came across this article and thought it expressed my similar desire to have a nursery in our women's prison in Raleigh. For all the push back, consider the importance of the bond between a mother and her child. Bonding is so important that if broken too many times in a child's young developing life (as can happen in the foster care system), bonding can thereafter never happen--this includes bonding with friends, spouse, one's own children, which is devastating to humanity...and the cycle continues.
Featured Article: Nurseries for incarcerated mothers and their children he Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, has been glamorized by the famous: Tokyo Rose, Billie Holiday, Squeaky Fromme, and recently, Martha Stewart. But to me, Alderson is no more than my first home; it’s my birthpl...