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Here for nine months and pull my life together. >> georgina and her baby, vanessa, are part of a unique nursery program for inmates who have babies in jail. its one of the few programs in the country which allow an inmate mother to care for her baby. >> under new york state law, a woman who gives birth while in custody has a legal right to keep the baby with her for up to a year, as long as they are not neglectful or abusive of the child, in which case we have some authority to go to the child w...

Placed under 24-hour direct supervision. >> in the first year that i was here, we had six suicides. which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the pre...

Which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the prenatal cell block at rikers. >> i got aids. >> i got my baby, i got more kids. i want to go to a prog...

And when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the prenatal cell block at rikers. >> i got aids. >> i got my baby, i got more kids. i want to go to a program from here for nine months and pull my life together. >> georgina ...

>> reporter: when takia patterson got here she was six months pregnant and scared. she had left behind her 2-year-old daughter and thought shed have to part with the baby she was carrying next. >> i didnt know what was going to happen, my child was going to go to foster care. >> reporter: he didnt. at ohios prison, takia had access to the nursery program at the prison, allowing inmates with short sentences to raise their infants until they are a year old. now her cell mates 7-month-old son, hake...