I met Jane in 2013 at a women’s prison in Washington state. She was 6, and while other girls her age may have been camping in the woods with their Girl Scout troops, Jane was camping overnight at the prison where her mother was incarcerated.
On the day we met, Jane was participating in Girls Scouts Beyond Bars, a program begun in Baltimore in 1992 as a pilot project between the Girl Scouts and the Institute of Justice. The idea was for girls to have formal visits with their incarcerated mothers, as well as a community of peers who shared their experiences and trained adults to help them deal with their challenges. For children with incarcerated parents, this kind of support is vitally important.
[For more of this story, written by Marian Harris, go to https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.11e63ed13c9a]
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