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| Jailed moms can't care for babies |
| By Canada.com |
| Published: 08/15/2008 |
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VANCOUVER, CANADA - Women who give birth in B.C.'s provincial jails will no longer be able to care full-time for their newborns in their cells because it's considered dangerous to the children. B.C. is the last province to allow newborns in jail, since no other province in Canada allows women to keep their babies in jail after giving birth. Over the past four years, 12 inmates at a Maple Ridge, B.C., medium-security facility have raised their babies in their cells, allowing mothers and children to bond in the critical early years. But B.C. Corrections has ended the program at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, located about 40 kilometres east of Vancouver, after the prison population more than doubled over four years, from 65 to 140 inmates, said spokeswoman Lisa Lapointe. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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