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Jun 2017
23m 16s

How To Be A Better Mum In Jail

Bbc World Service
About this episode

There are more than 200,000 women in US prisons and jails and it is estimated that 6% to 10% are pregnant. One project in Minnesota is trying to use these pregnancies to change the lives of the women, and their children, for the better. We go to jail with the Minnesota Prison Doula Project to see how it works.

Presenter: Mukul Devichand Reporter: Sahar Zand Producer: William Kremer

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