Why doesn’t the US allow women to keep their babies in prison?
In the US, there are only two correctional facilities which allow prison inmates to keep their babies with them, in New York and in Nebraska, as told by renowned photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood in her 3 part photo documentary for Amnesty International, called Too Much Time, where she visited dozens of prisons all over the world to record and document the lives of inmates. Atwood explains that the reason the US correctional system does generally not allow women with babies to keep them, is due to the hostage situation. In the Prison Photography Blog they address this claim: Children are excluded from all but a couple of US prisons. The security threat is cited as the reason: a child inside a prison is a constant vulnerable life and constant hostage target. The claim seems a little bogus when penal systems of other countries are brought into consideration. The Atwood documentary in the Amnesty International site features both a section on the process of giving birth in shackles as told i
