Women are the fastest-growing U.S. prison population today. Eighty percent are mothers of school-age children. Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison north of New York City. Shot over four years, Mothers of Bedford follows five women - of diverse backgrounds and incarcerated for different reasons- in dual struggles to be engaged in their children's lives and become their better selves. It shows how long-term sentences affect mother-child relationships and how Bedford's innovative Children's Center helps women maintain and improve bonds with children and adult relatives awaiting their return. Whether it be parenting's normal frustrations to celebrating a special day, from both inside and out of the prison walls, this moving film provides unprecedented access to a little known, rarely shown, community of women

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Collection

Women prisoners, Family relationships -- United States, Children of women prisoners -- United States, Prisoners' families -- United States

McShane, Jenifer (director), McShane, Jenifer (producer), Walters, Christopher (cinematographer), Shimin, Toby (editor), Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.) (producer), Center for Independent Documentary (producer), Women make movies (distributor)

01:36:19 (HH:MM:SS)

English

adult/continuing education, higher education, college

Name	Women Make Movies
Role	distributor
Telephone	212-925-0606
Address	462 Broadway, STE 500, New York, NY 10013
Email	[email protected]

2011-01-01

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