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These photos show what it can be like to be a mother in prison

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Photographing America's pregnant prisoners Credit: Cheryl Hanna-Truscott
Cheryl Hanna-Truscott wants to raise awareness of stories of motherhood we rarely hear about. (Picture: Cheryl Hanna-Truscott)

These aren’t stories that often get told.

Woman gets pregnant. Woman happens to also be in prison. What happens next?

Photographer Cheryl Hanna-Truscott wants to share those stories in all their variety. Her new project, Protective Custody, focuses on photographs of inmates, pregnant and with children, to shed a light on what it’s like to be a mother in jail.

A trained midwife and specialist in treating victims of child abuse, Cheryl’s background led to an interest in what it must be like to spend your early days… Read the full story


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