 |  | | | Mothers in prison | Tuesday 20 November 2001 | | |
The vast majority of the female prison population are mothers, a third of whom have children under the age of five.
With only a limited number of places provided for toddlers to stay with their mothers, for most a prison sentence means separation.
Children are sent to live with relatives or friends, only a quarter live with their fathers, and some inevitably end up in care.
While the government continues to build two new women's prisons in England, both with small mother and baby units, Jenni asks Martin Narey, Head of the Prison Service why there are no plans to create alternatives to our traditional models of incarceration.
Baroness Vivien Stern of the International Centre for Prison Studies, and Marie, a former prisoner, join the discussion.
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