PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD (CMC):
Female prisoners at the Women's Prison in Golden Grove, Arouca, were on Friday allowed visits from their under-18-year-old children as a Mother's Day gift from prison authorities.
For the first time ever in the history of the prison service, mothers were able to have their children under 18, some mere babies, visit them to commemorate Mother's Day, which is celebrated on May 14 worldwide.
Emotions ran high and some mothers, imprisoned for serious crimes, broke down in tears at the sight of their children walking through the prison gates. Prison guards stood some distance away, allowing the prisoners quality time with their children.
Some of the inmates who delivered their babies in prison and who were separated from their newborns soon after birth appeared at a loss for words as they held their children for the first time since the delivery process.
