Prologue and just general background information before reading the story:
The Indiana Women's Prison was established in 1873 as the first adult female correctional facility within the USA. The prison remains at its original location; one mile (1.6 kilometres) east of downtown Indianapolis. It has since moved to 2596 Girls School Road, former location of the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional facility. As of 2005, it had an average daily population of 420 inmates – most of whom are members of special-needs populations such as: geriatric, mentally ill, pregnant, and juveniles sentenced as adults. Security levels range from medium to maximum. The prison holds Indiana's only death row for women; however, no Indiana woman is currently sentenced death.
It was in March of 2008, that the Indiana Women's Prison implemented the 'Wee Ones Nursery' [W.O.N.] – a voluntary program available for pregnant offenders who met eligibility criteria. Standard procedure for offenders who find themselves in labour whilst serving their time, was to have the infant taken from the mother after just 24 hours of birth. W.O.N.'s aim was to prevent this in order to create a more potent mother-infant bond, which would hopefully give both mother and child a better quality in life.