Over the past four decades, as the inmate population in the United States has grown into the largest in the world, the number of children with a parent in custody has risen to nearly 3 million. For corrections officials and policy makers, those relationships can fade into the background. But not when a child is born on the inside. Research suggests that having nurseries in prisons leads to lower recidivism rates for moms and better outcomes for their kids.
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