Girl Scouts Beyond Bars brings young girls into prison so they can spend time with their incarcerated mothers. Ciara Wiseman, eight, gets a piggy-back ride from her mum, Amanda Cooper. Photos: TNS
Nine-year-old Kuhmaria VanBuren ran into the prison gymnasium and jumped into her mother’s arms with so much force they almost fell down.
For the next two hours, Kuhmaria let her mum braid her hair and cuddled in her arms, savouring the rare contact. Sapphire VanBuren, 26, has been incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland, the United States for over two years.
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