Word: hardwick
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Visits from children are rare in any case, because women's prisons, like those for men, are often all but inaccessible by public transportation. When children do manage to get there, the sessions can be heartrending. Some facilities, including the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution at Hardwick, where Rachals is housed, have created bright, toy-filled visiting rooms, but more often the quarters are grim and frightening. In Chicago's Cook County jail, a thick glass pane separates family visitors from prisoners. "It's a terrifying thing for a child to reach out and try to touch his mother...
...women prisoners seems bound to keep soaring. Which means that their particular needs can no longer be ignored. Some steps have been taken. Rikers Island, for example, maintains a nursery for babies born to prisoners, allowing the babies to stay with their mothers for up to a year. Hardwick and other institutions have parenting and outreach programs for inmates' children. Federal legislation enacted last year makes pregnant prisoners and their newborns eligible for special food supplements. And more prisons are expanding drug- and alcohol-treatment programs...