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JUST FILMS Series: MOTHERS OF BEDFORD
Chatham University, Eddy Theatre 
05/18/2017 
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM  
Other 
Non-fiction 
Chatham University - Women's institute, Women and Girls Foundation, Women's Law Project, New Voices for Reproductive Justice  
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Description and Reader Names: Film screening and panel discussion.

Women are the fastest-growing U.S. prison population today. Eighty percent are mothers of school-age children. Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison north of New York City.

Shot over four years, MOTHERS OF BEDFORD follows five women - of diverse backgrounds and incarcerated for different reasons- in dual struggles to be engaged in their children's lives and become their better selves. It shows how long-term sentences affect mother-child relationships and how Bedford's innovative Children's Center helps women maintain and improve bonds with children and adult relatives awaiting their return. Whether it be parenting's normal frustrations to celebrating a special day, from both inside and out of the prison walls, this moving film provides unprecedented access to a little known, rarely shown, community of women.
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Woodland Road 
Eddy Theatre 
 
Pittsburgh 
PA 
15232 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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