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| An official report says 479 innocent inmates were being kept inside with their mothers. DAILY NEWS photo |
Turkey - A university and two nongovernmental organizations launch a project at Bakırköy Women's Prison to help inmates who are incarcerated with their young children. According to project leaders, Turkey is the only country where children younger than 6 stay with their mothers in prison, a situation they say is unacceptable. The question of whether it is healthier for a child to grow up without a mother present, or to be raised in prison next to an incarcerated mother, is a difficult one to answer. Turkey’s unprecedented approach to this dilemma is to allow children below the age of 6 to stay behind bars with their mothers. But no one has determined how they might be affected later in life by this situation. According to figures provided by the Justice Ministry, as of six months ago, 479 “innocent inmates” were living inside the country’s prisons with their mothers. Full Story>>
Babies behind bars: Turkey's unique policy for incarcerated mothers
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=children-punished-along-with-their-mothers-2011-02-04
