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| Babies-in-prison program prompted few safety concerns |
| By cbc.ca/news/ |
| Published: 05/30/2013 |
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BRITISH COLUMBIA - A program to allow babies to stay with their imprisoned mothers in a B.C. jail caused very few safety problems before it was cancelled, says the former warden who oversaw the project. But a lawyer for the province suggested the program wasn't a success, noting the first participant ended up back in jail again, this time without her child. Brenda Tole, who left her post as warden of Maple Ridge's Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in the summer of 2007, helped develop the centre's mother-baby program when the facility opened in 2004. Its cancellation in 2008 is now the subject of a constitutional challenge in B.C. Supreme Court, with two former female inmates arguing that not allowing their babies to stay with them while they were in jail was a violation of their rights as mothers under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General — now known as the Ministry of Justice — had said the program was terminated because it wasn't safe for babies to live with their mothers in prison. Read More. |
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