What happens when your mum goes to prison?

In the UK, more than half of women in prison are mothers. For their children, the consequences can be profound.

Includes extracts from poems written by children whose mothers were imprisoned, taken from Seen & Heard by Lucy Baldwin and Ben Raikes.

Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), external

Executive producer/director Anna Lavelle, cinematographer Guy Loftus

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