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The Reentry Project - Prison Lullabies
 Prison
Lullabies is the remarkable portrait of four women living on the bad
side of luck, struggling with drug addiction, arrested for dealing and prostitution,
and serving prison time with one common bond - arrested pregnant, Amy,
Monique, Joann, and Anne Marie have all given birth behind bars. For these
women who are on intimate terms with sexual abuse, poverty, and addiction,
the Taconic Correctional Facility in New York State offers a rare gleam
of hope. One of only five prisons in the U.S. to provide a nursery program
for inmates, Taconic allows the women to keep their babies for the first
18 months of their lives while insisting that the mothers participate in
a rigorous series of classes that range from basic child care to anger management
and drug counseling.Each woman is released in the course of filming. Each must choose, minute
to minute, whether to find a job, break the cycle of relapse and re-arrest
that has led to the loss of her other children, or pick up the crack pipe,
abandon the child, and return to the streets. Shot in cinema-verité
style, Prison Lullabies addresses these issues by allowing the
audience the opportunity to observe and listen as the stories of the inmate
mothers unfold in their own time and in their own words.
Prison Lullabies is an extraordinary tale - that of four
women making life-altering choices and seizing the glimmer of possibility
the prison nursery program is holding out for them and for the future
of their children.
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