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Women Make Movies - WMM
MOTHERS IN PRISON & THEIR
CHILDREN - FILM
Film Segment: http://www.wmm.com/advscripts/wmmvideo.aspx?pid=235
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Women are the fastest-growing U.S. prison population today. Eighty percent are mothers of school-age children. Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison north of New York City.
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over four years, MOTHERS OF BEDFORD follows five women - of diverse backgrounds
and incarcerated for different reasons- in dual struggles to be engaged in
their children's lives and become their better selves. It shows how long-term
sentences affect mother-child relationships and how Bedford's innovative
Children's Center helps women maintain and improve bonds with children and
adult relatives awaiting their return. Whether it be parenting's normal
frustrations to celebrating a special day, from both inside and out of the
prison walls, this moving film provides unprecedented access to a little known,
rarely shown, community of women.
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