Hour Children’s Prison Nursery Program Featured on Inside Edition

Inside the Prison Where Babies Serve Time With Their Incarcerated Mothers

One by one, a line of women in state greens walk down the winding prison roads and up a stairwell, with their arms wrapped around their tiny newborns or cradling their pregnant bellies.

One-year-old Xaylen is one of 26 babies who call Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security women’s prison in New York, home.

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Wiltshire is serving time for criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. She discovered she was pregnant while detained at Rikers Island and was transferred to Hour Children’s facility at Bedford Hills shortly after,
where she would complete the rest of her pregnancy, give birth and spend upto a year with her son before they were both released.

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