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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Tragic babies raised behind bars: Moving portraits of children of female inmates who grow up in South American jails until age four



They've done nothing to earn a prison sentence but the poverty and violence of jail are the first impressions scores of Argentinian children who are born in custody have of life. A heart-wrenching collection of portraits by photographer Carolina Camps has captured the South American women raising their children behind bars, including Valeria Cigara, left, whose little girl Milagros, pictured bottom right with her aunt and grandmother who was born in jail, and Sandra Valdez, top right.

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