  even though i know people don't read this - you really should it's great!!!! anyway, this is about parents and children in the california prison system - it's about how mothers aren't allowed contact with their children while they are in prison and the trauma this produces for those children well, shocks of shocks people - this is my position these women commited a crime (drug specifically) - are the problems they have with their children really related to the fact that they are in prison? were they good parents anyway? here's the story http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/08/contact_visits/index.html 
