For some incarcerated women, spending time behind bars means missing out on the formative years of their child’s or grandchild’s life. But a program is trying to change that. Mommy Reads, a ten-week course offered through Sarah Lawrence College to mothers and grandmothers incarcerated at the Valhalla Correctional Facility in Valhalla, New York, helps women write children’s stories and then record themselves narrating them. Polly Bresnick has been lead teacher and volunteer coordinator of the program for two years.
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