Re: parenting programs for drug users in the prison system

[RHChabot@xxxxxxx]

Portia A. Davis,

There is also a program in the women's prison Bedford, NY, founded by Jean 
Harris and a nun.  Harris was the head mistress (Dean) of an exclusive girls 
school, convicted of killing Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, 
in 1980 and sentenced to prison in New York. She wrote  about women in prison 
based upon her experiences. While in prison, using her skill and knowledge, 
Harris set up a mother-infant program and tutored many of the less fortunate 
inmates.   Her book, Stranger in Two Worlds , is a must read....she tells how 
she began the parenting program in the Bedford, NY women's prison and the 
community who housed the children so they could attend the program daily with 
their mothers in prison.

I also found out that Ms. Harris is currently holding lectures/presentations 
on this very project.  The project is called Children of Bedford, NY Project. 
  This was on the internet........"Jean Harris, author and supporter of the 
Children of Bedford (N.Y.) Project and a Millersville University 
scholar-in-residence, will deliver a lecture/presentation at 8 p.m. Tuesday, 
Sept. 19, 2000, in the Science & Technology Building's Armstrong Auditorium 
at MU. Former headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School, Harris was 
sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after being convicted of the 1980 
murder of Dr. Herman Tarnower, a wealthy cardiologist known as the "Scarsdale 
Diet Doctor" with whom she had been involved for 14 years."

Hope this helps

Rose Chabot
Phoenix, AZ

>I have a request from an Australian seeking information 
>about parenting programs for drug users in the prison system and in 
>the wider community in the US and Canada.
>
>If anyone has any knowledge, please share.
>
>Portia A. Davis,
>Executive Director
>The Ross County Network For Children
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>s.com/Heartland/Village/3648/