article_snippet: Newborn daughter is one of 340 babies born each year to mother's serving sentences at Valley State Prison, in Chowchilla, California.
article_snippet: With on average 120 inmates pregnant each month only a handful of women are lucky enough to avoid separation from women infants.
article_snippet: Being pregnant does not secure expectant mother's special treatment at Valley State, the world's largest prison for women.
article_snippet: At any given time, approximately 120 are pregnant at Valley State Prison on average each month.
article_snippet: But with over 340 babies born annually to female inmates, only a handful of these children are able to avoid separation from these children mothers.
article_snippet: The State of California operates three mother-infant prisoner programs that allow those who qualify to live in a low-level prison setting with their newborn if the duration of their sentence is less than six years.
article_snippet: With as few as 75 beds in the program, many prisoners  are forced to give up many prisoners   babies for adoption or foster care, or, in some cases, many prisoners   give parental custody to friends or relatives.
article_snippet: The low-level prison houses up to 24 women inmates who gave birth behind bars and aims to keep mother and child together.
article_snippet: Community Prisoner Mother Program has just 24 beds for mothers who give birth behind bars .
article_snippet: There are only 75 prison beds in Community Prisoner Mother Program .
article_snippet: Inmates who are pregnant are given little or no rehabilitation for Inmates who are pregnant drug use and criminal lifestyle and it is hard for Inmates who are pregnant once released to escape Inmates who are pregnant past.
highlights_snippet: The prison hospital delivers on average 340 babies each year .
  