Born Free
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When a pregnant woman is sentenced to prison, her baby sometimes has to suffer, too. A woman without choices may have to turn to foster care or relatives and risk losing her children to the state or in custody battles.
The Galilean Home, a ministry in rural Casey County, opens up another door. It cares for incarcerated women's babies until they are released. Volunteers care for the babies and bring them to visit their mothers once a week at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women at Pewee Valley.
Sandy and Jerry Tucker, who started the Galilean Home, say when the women know they will get out and be able to start a new life with their babies it gives them hope.
"They see a light at the end of the tunnel," Sandy Tucker said.
These are the stories of the incarcerated women, the Tuckers, the volunteers and the babies. These are the stories of hope.
This series ran in The Advocate-Messenger during the second week of May, 2006.
Writers: Liz Maples and Brenda S. Edwards
Photographer: Clay Jackson