Daily post #2 of 5

1/15/08
In todays news from the New York Times' web site there was a horrifying article on how newborn babes stay in prison with their mothers who have been caught up for drug dealing or kidnapping. The children stay with their mothers until they reach the age of six. But this isn't happening in the United States this is happening in Mexico City. The amazing thing is that the warden of the all womens prison told the writer that having the children in the prison makes the mothers and the women at the prison behave in a manner that is not prison like of them. The warden think having the children in the prison sets the women to behave themselves better and they rethink what they have done to get into the prison. The children are able to leave for holidays and weekends to visit their relatives. The mothers keep their children instead of sending them to close relatives because they say the children are like a breath of normal life inside the stuffy, deadening confines of the prison. But they are forced by their selves when they cant support their children when they are sick when they cant pay for the prescription medicine that the prison doctors give them then they have to send them to close relatives. The children are all safe in this environment as if they have some kind invisible force field around them. This could have an effect on the world because if all, all womens prison had their children with them then all the violence from the prisons can lower to an outstanding rate. I think that this is a good treatment for the women who have been locked up because it treats them more manners then they entered the prison with and hopefully when they get out they wont go back to what they were doing.
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