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| Inmate Rehab Plan On Hold In Maryland |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 08/19/2002 |
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A pioneering plan to rehabilitate female prisoners who have babies while in custody was at least temporarily shelved recently after Mount Vernon residents turned out in force to attack the proposed location of another social program in their neighborhood. Tamar's Children, a $5 million program, is meant to be one of the first in the country to keep inmates with their babies in a special facility after they give birth. But neighbors of the latest site proposed for the project - a building at 509 Cathedral St. that in recent years has been a halfway house for offenders from Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center - vowed that Tamar's Children would never open there. Stuart O. Simms, secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, announced that the program would not go forward at that site after being excoriated at a two-hour public meeting at the central Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathedral Street. More than 100 Mount Vernon residents and business owners vented their outrage at getting just a few days' notice about the plan. |
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