A STATEWIDE PROGRAM IS HELPING TO CONNECT INMATES AND THEIR CHILDREN. RILEY’S READERS GIVES INCARCERATED PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS A CHANCE TO BE A PART OF THEIR KIDS LIVES, EVEN IF THEY CAN’T BE THERE PHYSICALLY. OUR PEYTON FURTADO SHOWS US HOW. PRESS THE BUTTON AGAIN WHEN FINISHED. EVERYONE HAS AN EXTRA AWESOME PERSON IN THEIR LIFE. THAT PERSON FOR ME IS ALL OF YOU. MY MOMMY. FAR FROM THE COMFORT OF A FAMILY ROOM WHERE A CHILD’S BEDROOM MORE THAN 470 INMATES CALL THIS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE HOME. AT LEAST FOR NOW. WE’RE COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS WHERE WE’VE GOT 15 MONTHS LEFT FOR THEIR CHILDREN. LEATH CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IS THE ONLY PLACE THEY GET TO SEE THEIR MOMS OR THEIR GRANDMAS. AND WE’VE COME ON A SPECIAL DAY. AND THAT’S WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT, ISN’T IT? THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE TOGETHER AND TO HEAR THAT CHILD’S VOICE, JUST LIKE THAT CHILD GETS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE WHEN YOU RECORD THESE BOOKS. THROUGH RILEY’S READERS, PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS BEHIND BARS RECORD BEDTIME STORIES FOR THEIR KIDS. IF YOU CAN IMAGINE A CHILD CRYING JUST TO BE WITH THEIR MOM, AND FOR THAT GRANDMOTHER TO HAVE THAT BOOK TO OPEN UP AND SAY, YOUR MOM IS HERE, LISTEN TO HER VOICE, HER SOOTHING VOICE IN THIS BOOK, HER SAYING, I LOVE YOU IN THIS BOOK. AND TO KEEP PUSHING ON THE MOM’S SIDE. THIS GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO SAY, I REALLY WANT TO STAY OUT, I WANT TO WHAT I WANT TO DO IS RAISE MY CHILD, NOT RAISE THEM IN A PENITENTIARY SETTING LIKE WE’RE DOING TODAY. WITH THE HELP OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, $25,000 GRANT, THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HAS GIVEN PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS MORE THAN 1000 BOOKS TO RECORD. MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY! HI. YES, EACH ONE GOING TO A CHILD OR CHILDREN WHO MISSED THEM WHEN THINGS ARE QUIET. YOU KNOW, I DO THINK ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY HAVE GOING ON. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THINGS I COULD HAVE BEEN DOING WITH THEM. BUT YOU’LL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE IN A FEW MONTHS. YEAH. THE PROJECT REHABILITATING PRISONERS AND KEEPING THEIR CHILDREN FROM A SIMILAR FATE BY PROMOTING LITERACY AND CONNECTION WITH THEIR FAMILIES, EVEN THOUGH THEIR MOMS CAN’T TUCK THEM IN FOR BED. IF THEY CLOSE THEIR EYES. FOR ALL THOSE REASONS AND SO MANY MORE. THAT’S WHY I LOVE YOU. IT’S ALMOST LIKE SHE’S THERE. I LIKE IT.
Mothers behind bars ship bedtime tales dwelling to their youngsters
A statewide program helps inmates and their youngsters keep related, and it simply hit a serious milestone.Removed from the consolation of a household room or a baby’s bed room, greater than 470 inmates stay within the Leath Correctional Establishment in South Carolina. “We’re counting down the times. We have got 15 months left,” mentioned one girl as she sat along with her youngsters Tuesday.Leath Correctional Establishment is the one place the place households of incarcerated folks get to be collectively proper now. However there’s a means for them to convey part of their relations dwelling.By way of Riley’s Readers, dad and mom and grandparents behind bars report bedtime tales for his or her youngsters. “In the event you can think about a baby crying simply to be with their mother, and for his or her grandmother to have that e book to open up and say, your mother is right here, take heed to her voice, her soothing voice on this e book, her saying, ‘I like you’ on this e book, and to maintain pushing,” Lisa Engram mentioned. Engram is an interim deputy director on the South Carolina Division of Corrections. “On the mother’s facet, this offers them the flexibility to say, ‘I actually wish to keep out. I wish to do, what I wish to do is increase my little one, not increase them in a penitentiary setting like we’re doing right now,'” mentioned Joel Anderson, interim director of the South Carolina Division of Corrections.With the assistance of the state’s division of social providers and its $25,000 grant, inmates have recorded greater than 1,000 books. Each is given to a baby or youngsters who miss them. “When issues are quiet, you already know, I do take into consideration them and what they’ve happening,” mentioned one particular person within the establishment. “And, you already know, what issues I might have been doing with them.” The undertaking is rehabilitating folks in jail and constructing optimistic futures for his or her youngsters by selling literacy and reference to their households. Although their mothers cannot tuck them in for mattress, in the event that they shut their eyes, it is virtually like she’s there.
A statewide program helps inmates and their youngsters keep related, and it simply hit a serious milestone.
Removed from the consolation of a household room or a baby’s bed room, greater than 470 inmates stay within the Leath Correctional Establishment in South Carolina.
“We’re counting down the times. We have got 15 months left,” mentioned one girl as she sat along with her youngsters Tuesday.
Leath Correctional Establishment is the one place the place households of incarcerated folks get to be collectively proper now. However there’s a means for them to convey part of their relations dwelling.
By way of Riley’s Readers, dad and mom and grandparents behind bars report bedtime tales for his or her youngsters.
“In the event you can think about a baby crying simply to be with their mother, and for his or her grandmother to have that e book to open up and say, your mother is right here, take heed to her voice, her soothing voice on this e book, her saying, ‘I like you’ on this e book, and to maintain pushing,” Lisa Engram mentioned. Engram is an interim deputy director on the South Carolina Division of Corrections.
“On the mother’s facet, this offers them the flexibility to say, ‘I actually wish to keep out. I wish to do, what I wish to do is increase my little one, not increase them in a penitentiary setting like we’re doing right now,'” mentioned Joel Anderson, interim director of the South Carolina Division of Corrections.
With the assistance of the state’s division of social providers and its $25,000 grant, inmates have recorded greater than 1,000 books. Each is given to a baby or youngsters who miss them.
“When issues are quiet, you already know, I do take into consideration them and what they’ve happening,” mentioned one particular person within the establishment. “And, you already know, what issues I might have been doing with them.”
The undertaking is rehabilitating folks in jail and constructing optimistic futures for his or her youngsters by selling literacy and reference to their households.
Although their mothers cannot tuck them in for mattress, in the event that they shut their eyes, it is virtually like she’s there.
