Word: ambrosini
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...drug offenders to Family Foundations, a community-based residential drug-treatment program. In Santa Fe Springs, Calif., female inmates live in what resembles a converted school building with their children up to age six. "You're not just another number where you're not getting any help," says Sarah Ambrosini, 29, who lives there with her two sons, ages four months and 16 months. The program is expensive, averaging $40,000 a year per inmate, compared with $25,000 in a regular prison. But since families stay together, fewer kids wind up in foster care. Also, follow-up studies show...
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