The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
Series: Making Contact
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What's it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it's born? On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next generation of America's kids?
Special Thanks to segment producers: intern Shaunnah Ray, and freelancer Shannon Heffernan. Heffernan's Time on the Outside project is produced with support from the Soros Justice Media Fellowships Program of the Open Society Institute.
Featuring: Michelle Alexander, Author of "The New Jim Crow. Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness'; Hukee, Prison Doula Project Birth Attendant Program Coordinator; Simon Conrad, Marin Fahey, Sarelle Caicedo, Doulas; Teresa Correll & Genisis, Women who gave Birth at the Washington Correctional Center For Women; Casey & AJ, Mothers at Decatur Prison; Susan Creek, Decatur Prison Warden
Program #14-11
Begin Date 04/06/11. End date 10/06/11.
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What's it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it's born? On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next generation of America's kids?
Special Thanks to segment producers: intern Shaunnah Ray, and freelancer Shannon Heffernan. Heffernan's Time on the Outside project is produced with support from the Soros Justice Media Fellowships Program of the Open Society Institute.
Featuring: Michelle Alexander, Author of "The New Jim Crow. Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness'; Hukee, Prison Doula Project Birth Attendant Program Coordinator; Simon Conrad, Marin Fahey, Sarelle Caicedo, Doulas; Teresa Correll & Genisis, Women who gave Birth at the Washington Correctional Center For Women; Casey & AJ, Mothers at Decatur Prison; Susan Creek, Decatur Prison Warden
Program #14-11
Begin Date 04/06/11. End date 10/06/11.
Please call us if you carry us - 510-251-1332 - and we will list your station on our website. If you excerpt, please credit early and often.
Broadcast History
Program #14-11
Begin Date 04/06/11. End date 10/06/11.
Timing and Cues
Total run time is 29 minutes (no hard breaks)
-Optional cutaway at 1:00
-Optional (floating) cutaway between 12:00 and 20:00
-Music in/out.
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| Keep Ya Head Up | Tupac | 00:00 | |||
| Zion | Lauren Hill | 00:00 |
Additional Credits
Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer
Producers: Kyung Jin Lee, Esther Manilla
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Production Intern: Shaunnah Ray, Lisa Bartfai
Web Intern: Irene Flores
Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alfonso Hooker & Alton Byrd
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