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Meet Phila.'s first female prisons chief
By philly.com- Julia Terruso
Published: 04/26/2016

Blanche Carney first set foot in a jail in 1994.

The experience was life-changing.

Carney was a foster-care social worker at the time, with a client jailed on a minor theft charge. Carney was bringing the woman's 6-year-old daughter to visit.

She still recalls how the girl jumped as each inmate's name was called, her sprint when it came time to see her mother, and the pain of tearing the child away when the visit ended.

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