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'New program gives prisoners chance to mother'

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The title of this post is the headline to a Houston Chronicle story published today on:the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Baby and Mother Bonding Initiative. Mandated by the 80th Texas Legislature, the program gives select state jail inmates the chance to live and bond with their newborns.Operated out of the Santa Maria Hostel, a northeast Houston facility for troubled women, the program offers young mothers life skills and substance abuse counseling, classes leading to a GED and a crash course in parenting. The idea, said Santa Maria CEO Kay Austin, is to give the baby a wholesome start and the mother an incentive to stay straight."Our concern has been with the ability of the mother to form a bond with the baby, but that's not our only concern," Austin said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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