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...risks of prison life are outweighed by the benefits of keeping babies close to their mothers. "It's an impossible situation," says Leslie Acoca of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, who nevertheless argues that it is worse to separate kids from their mothers. New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility opened the nation's first prison nursery 100 years ago, and these days its parenting program has had dramatic results. Only 10% of women who successfully completed the program returned to prison, in contrast to 52% of inmates overall...
...Transportation must not only open slots for start-ups and solid competitors at congested airports, but it must also do what it can to support new entrants. Just last week, for example, the federal government mysteriously denied Shuttle America, a new airline operating out of Hanscom Field in Bedford, the right to fly to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. This type of move not only hurts the start-up company, but also cheats consumers out of an affordable and convenient service...
Warren, who served a 12-year sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York, called for prison reform, saying that educating inmates is the key to improving society...
...Bedford Hills] it costs the same to incarcerate a woman for a year as to send her to Harvard for a year," filmmaker Benay Rubenstein said...
Author Hettie Jones, who began a writing workshop at Bedford Hills back in 1989, said that the work that she does as an educator in prison is just as important as the work she does in colleges...