Mexico City Journal: In Prison, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom
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Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside a prison in Mexico City with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide.
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons
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Blanca Reyes used to make coffee while her husband, writer Raul Rivero, spent hours talking with other intellectuals in their living room. But when Rivero was thrown into prison after a crackdown on dissidents by Cuba last year, the former homemaker became an activist, leading political prisoners' wives fighting for the release of their husbands.
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Young offenders could serve their custodial sentences in children's homes, under Home Office plans.
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It&#39;s been a traumatic year and a half for Terry Kennedy and his fiancÃ©e, Dawn Marie Wilson, who was recently released from a Mexican prison.
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Colombia's child welfare agency has granted freed hostage Clara Rojas full custody of the 3-year-old son taken from her during her years in a rebel camp in the jungle, the agency's director said Sunday. "Emmanuel must be with his mother," the head of the Child Welfare Institute of Colombia, said.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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A woman whose two stepdaughters were discovered last year in an advanced state of starvation has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
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FRAIJANES, Guatemala  - Guatemalan security forces   took over a jail run for over 10 years by inmates who built   their own town on prison grounds complete with restaurants,   churches and hard-drug laboratories.
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Faced with allegations of torturing their own children, John and Linda Dollar skipped a hearing with child welfare workers, piled into their Lexus sport utility vehicle and left central Florida. Now the two sit in jail in the 2,000-person town of Monticello, Utah, awaiting extradition on Florida warrants of felony aggravated child abuse.
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NEW YORK  - Children whose mothers work  nights, evenings or rotating shifts are more likely to be  behind the curve in mental development at age 2 and in language  ability at age 3, new research reports.
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The illegal immigrant parents of a toddler with a little-known genetic abnormality were granted a one year stay in the United States, U.S. Customs and Immigration officials said Thursday.
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Gang members at two prisons in El Salvador took some 100 visitors and prison staff hostage on Thursday, demanding direct negotiation with a top federal human rights ombudsman and an Archbishop, according to reports reaching in Mexico City from San Salvador
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Gone are the days when Americans on the lam could look to Mexico as a refuge. Extraditions and deportations have risen sharply as U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials work closely together to bring suspected criminals to justice.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) - An Alberta woman whose son was said to have discovered he was a missing child when he Googled his name on the Internet was sentenced to two months in jail for child abduction.
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Part 2: A welfare mother has been in a Wisconsin jail for seven months to protect her child. Is she or the judge to blame?
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The state Supreme Court has allowed a woman who served a prison term in Florida for the death of her child to regain custody of a 3-year-old boy born after she moved to Illinois.