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Moms in Prison

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Sunday is Mother's Day, perhaps the only day of the year when moms get doted on by the rest of the family. But this Hallmark holiday has a very different meaning for mothers in prison. Some 11,000 women are incarcerated in California, and three quarters of them have children under the age of 18. Each year, some of these kids ride a state-sponsored bus to the Central Valley town of Chowchilla, home to California's two largest women's prisons. We hear the voices of the families visiting their loved ones -- and the women struggling to be parents from behind bars.

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