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| Prison offers limited nursery program |
| By rapidcityjournal.com |
| Published: 12/14/2009 |
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Yes, at least at the South Dakota Women’s Prison — but for no more than 30 days. In 2009, 10 infants have been born to moms incarcerated at the women’s correctional facility in Pierre, the South Dakota Department of Corrections reports. Of those, six mothers opted to keep their babies with them in their jail cells for up to 30 days before relinquishing them to outside caregivers. South Dakota is one of only nine states nationwide with an in-prison nursery program, according to the Women’s Prison Association. If a non-violent offender who meets various qualifying conditions gives birth while in DOC custody, and she isn’t placing the baby for adoption, the infant can stay in the mother’s cell for 30 days, according to prison warden Brenda Hyde. To Hyde’s knowledge, no inmate has ever gotten pregnant while incarcerated at the women’s correctional facility. But pregnant women sometimes enter the custody of the state’s Department of Corrections at the time of their original sentencing or, more commonly, as a parolee who has violated a condition of her parole and is returned to prison after getting pregnant while living in the community, Hyde said. Read More. |
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