When the kids are being cared for by family, friends or foster parents, ensuring they maintain a strong bond is essential in helping them adapt to the outside world on release – and in discouraging them from re-offending. There is now a family engagement worker in every public sector women’s prison in the country.
Prison helping to keep inmate mums bonded with kids: It breaks my heart to leave them.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/prison-helping-keep-inmate-mums-4786732
Children of incarcerated parents celebrate Christmas