{"id":109993,"date":"2022-02-22T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109993"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:34:56","slug":"ct-birth-behind-bars-christians-fight-cruel-outdated-prison-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109993","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Birth Behind Bars: Christians Fight \u2018Cruel,\u2019 Outdated Prison Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Franklin lost her mother, her father, and her husband in a 12-month span. But the grief of their deaths paled in comparison to parting with her three teenage daughters in the same year, 2008, when she went to prison for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing separated from them was worse,\u201d said Franklin, who served four years in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn\u2019t imagine a deeper hurt until a few years later, when her daughter, Ashley Garrison, was sentenced while pregnant. The 20-year-old went into labor the day she checked into prison.<\/p>\n<p>Garrison had a boy and named him William. She held him for an hour before she was forced to relinquish custody to his father\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/march\/prison-ministry-pregnancy-birth-separation-policy-reform.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the female prison population continues to rise, there are more horror stories of pregnant women giving birth behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Christian ministries and advocates are stepping in. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaforW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MariaforW<\/a> reports:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sxCor4u8UP\">https:\/\/t.co\/sxCor4u8UP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1496215214873739264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Franklin lost her mother, her father, and her husband in a 12-month span. But the grief of their deaths paled in comparison to parting with her three teenage daughters in the same year, 2008, when she went to prison<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109993\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,419,104,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-evangelicals","category-health-medicine","category-prisonprison-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109996,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993\/revisions\/109996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}