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Minnesota Mothers to Receive More Bonding Time with Their Newborn Children
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2021
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2021, page 38
Filed under:
Children of Prisoners.
Location:
Minnesota.
by Kevin Bliss
The Healthy Start Act in Minnesota will allow mothers who give birth while incarcerated more time to bond with their children. Signed into law by Gov. Tim Walz, the bill transfers expectant mothers to transfer from prison to an alternate setting geared specifically to provide mothers and ...
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