News & Media

Pioneer Press, "'An Insult to Child Development': MN Prisons Mull Alternatives to Incarceration for Pregnant Women" (September 2019)

Minnesota Public Radio, "Mental Illness Affects Most Women Behind Bars" (June 2019)

Star Tribune, "Shakopee Women's Prison to Discontinue 'No-Touch' Policy" (June 2019)

Los Angeles Times, "Opinion: Most Prisoners Are Parents Too. It’s Unconscionable to Keep their children from visiting them" (June 2017)

World Hacks, BBC World Service, "Allowing Mums in Jail to Hug Their Children" (June 2017)

MPR News, "What happens to kids whose parents are incarcerated?" (April 2017)

Governing Magazine, "Pregnant in prison? Some states deliver doulas" (August 2016)

Star Tribune, "Shackles off: Care for Minnesota’s pregnant inmates is improving" (August 2016)