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Mothers and babies in prison

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This television news clip from September 2008 explores the situation of mothers with babies in prison. It discusses the law change that would allow women prisoners with babies to keep those children with them until the age of two.

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Peter Clayworth, Prisons – Women in prison, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/36781/mothers-and-babies-in-prison (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 11 June 2012.