Occasionally, the NSW State do get it right. The Story Time Program, a pioneering program in Emu Plains Correctional Centre, is attempting to bring the voices of female inmates into the bedrooms of their children. Audio recordings of the inmates reading stories are pressed onto CDs with professional assistance and subsequently delivered to their children as a way to maintain the bond between mother and child.
This program while groundbreaking in NSW, has been used elsewhere in the world, e.g. in USA as far back as 1997, so what took it so long to reach here is something worth mulling over.
We would like to think the NSW Correctional Services Minister Phil Costa got this gem of an idea on one of his tax-payer funded trips overseas, wouldn't we? Alright, it was a cheap shot and I take it back. Every step forward is a step forward and Mr Costa has my applause for backing the program. AND I don't often get the chance to clap these days . . . so here goes - *clap, clap*
In case you are asking, yes it can and should be done for dads as well.
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