Utah’s prison is seeking funding to open a nursery for mothers and infants. This facility could be operational as early as July, allowing incarcerated mothers to bond with their babies.
The Utah Legislature cited oversight concerns after numerous shortcomings in prison health care were detailed in back-to-back audits.
Despite those efforts, the sisters are still struggling to build a maternal connection with their babies now that they get to embrace them on the outside months after they last saw them in a hospital. , and instead opted to create an advisory board under the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee how programs like the nursery are implemented.
Holding a picture of her 7-month-old son Erik, McEaneney said, “I don’t want him to think we’re friends, I want him to know that we’re parents, we’re mom and dad.”Amid stacked boxes of diapers and mint-colored rocking chairs lined against the wall, Department of Corrections programming director Anndrea Parrish and parenting coordinator Trisha Reynolds talked about their to-do list to make the white, concrete-floored room welcoming for young families.
Anndrea Parrish, programming division director and Trisha Reynolds, the intergenerational coordinator for the Utah Department of Corrections, enter the Utah State Correctional Facility nursery unit that will house four incarcerated mothers and their babies on April 7, 2023.
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