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My View: Inmate family program should be spared
By portlandtribune.com
Published: 03/05/2015

“Stop worrying about things you can’t control. Just focus on being a second-grader.”

That’s what Nova, an inmate mother, said tenderly as she hugged her 7-year-old daughter, Malique, goodbye last spring at the end of their visit at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville.

Watching this moment, I don’t know exactly what Malique was fretting over, but it’s not hard to recognize that children and mothers separated by incarceration have a lot to worry about.

Thanks to the Family Preservation Project, Nova, Malique and the 11 other inmate moms and their children have had the ability to momentarily forget their separation, focusing instead on nurturing their mother/child bond. The project has provided a precious three hours of twice-monthly mother/child visits where they have the opportunity to hug, kiss, dance, play, cuddle, nap, sing, eat and read — all that despite the razor wire visible through the prison classroom’s window.

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