Lee Hadden writes:\” Today\’s Wall Street Journal (April 11, 2002) has a front page story
about women prisoners who read stories on tape to be played for their
distant children.
\”Tales From Prison:
Tapes Let Inmates Read
to Their Children\” By
JEFFREY ZASLOW
\”The books come…
through a grassroots
Illinois literacy
program called Aunt
Mary\’s Storybook
Project. As a part of
the program,
incarcerated mothers
read books into tape
recorders. Then the
books and tapes are
mailed to their
children. In recent
years, more than 20
similar projects have
proliferated in other
states. Most are run by
volunteers, and survive
with the help of local
libraries and prison
ministries.\”
\”Supporters of these
programs say they help
nurture the bonds
between mothers and
children at a time when
the female prison
population is swelling.
More than 160,000 women
are incarcerated in the
U.S., up 105% since
1990. Two-thirds of them
have children under age
18. \”Reading is such a
connective activity,\”
says Ellen Barry,
founding director of
Legal Services for
Prisoners With Children.
\”These programs are
brilliant in their
simplicity.\”
Read more about it online (if you have a
subscription).
Lee Hadden writes:\” Today\’s Wall Street Journal (April 11, 2002) has a front page story
about women prisoners who read stories on tape to be played for their
distant children.
\”Tales From Prison:
Tapes Let Inmates Read
to Their Children\” By
JEFFREY ZASLOW
\”The books come…
through a grassroots
Illinois literacy
program called Aunt
Mary\’s Storybook
Project. As a part of
the program,
incarcerated mothers
read books into tape
recorders. Then the
books and tapes are
mailed to their
children. In recent
years, more than 20
similar projects have
proliferated in other
states. Most are run by
volunteers, and survive
with the help of local
libraries and prison
ministries.\”
\”Supporters of these
programs say they help
nurture the bonds
between mothers and
children at a time when
the female prison
population is swelling.
More than 160,000 women
are incarcerated in the
U.S., up 105% since
1990. Two-thirds of them
have children under age
18. \”Reading is such a
connective activity,\”
says Ellen Barry,
founding director of
Legal Services for
Prisoners With Children.
\”These programs are
brilliant in their
simplicity.\”
Read more about it online (if you have a
subscription).
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