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IN: Women prisoners raise money to help Indiana prison nursery

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmates raise money to help Ind. prison nursery Associated Press June 7, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS ?Inmates at prisons across Indiana have raised more than $5,600 to help support a parenting education program for pregnant offenders at the Indiana Women's Prison. The state Department of Correction says the money was raised over a few weeks and donations are still coming in. Staff at the DOC's intake center at Plainfield also collected cash and other donations. Another $1,000 is still expected. The money raised from cash donations and fundraisers such as food sales goes to help the Wee Ones Nursery, a prison unit that provides parenting education and ensures quality time to strengthen the mother-child bond. To live with their newborns in the separate unit, mothers must have never been convicted of violent crimes and have less than 18 months left on their sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).