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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. it's 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 welfare authorities and have the child taken away. and we operate the nursery with capacity for abou...

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 we've 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 pro...

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 we've 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 and her baby, vanessa, are par...

And when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so we've 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 and her baby, vanessa, are part of a unique nursery program for inmates who have babies in jail. it...

>> reporter: when takia patterson got here she was six months pregnant and scared. she had left behind her 2-year-old daughter and thought she'd have to part with the baby she was carrying next. >> i didn't know what was going to happen, my child was going to go to foster care. >> reporter: he didn't. at ohio's 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 mate's 7-month-old son, hakeem. >> they need to be with their mothers, whether it is in prison or not. >> ladies, good morn...