tv Documentary RT March 6, 2013 5:29am-6:00am EST
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well i wouldn't say that his life is difficult that he's deprived of something he has everything that he needs he gets medical care and he's given an upbringing he's studied well and what's more his mother is with him i haven't robbed him of anything like this do you think being here together with children with your son helps you look for is a difficult for you. are you asking if my child helps me or bothers me how can my child bother me he's my life my soul i live only for him. at ten surely residential zones with their inspection is now due to certain duty arcturus courts at all in may so they sent old yard in an older man out for
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examination i repeat received two yards for inspection. say hi sasha hello sweetheart yes. i'm here to finish filming a story about you as i look sander is now a t.v. star alexander i ready for filming. yes yes he is ready look how he's sticking his head up convict marina gushing over knows almost all the mothers and children in this prison colony she's been allowed to set up a small t.v. studio behind bars because she used to be a journalist. before going to jail marina hosted a crime news t.v. program now she mostly makes films about children born behind bars. kids living in a prison colony is a very disturbing subject and
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a sore topic for many but on the other hand it's a completely different world here a world of childhood a world of happiness the irony is that it's behind barbed wire services during visiting hours kids stand by the window to meet their mother their eyes are full of hope full of joy because they're going to see their mom. is here. and it doesn't matter what kind of mother she is she may be an alcoholic a murderer or a drug addict but for the child she is mommy. in this child care center mothers are permitted one hour with their children in the morning and another in the evening but natalia had been allowed to spend all of her time with a child the colony has nine rooms where mothers and children can live together
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natalya and her daughter yulia shared one of them but a few weeks after moving in natalia abandoned her daughter to the work after the child turned one month old he was transferred to the child care center she didn't come to visit the child regularly left early or came late for her visits in other words it didn't look like she wanted to be with her daughter. but quite recently she came to see me and said the recent i want to live together with my child and of course i told her you have the opportunity to return to your child but you have to prove that you really love her. i wanted to stay here until the end of the term. but it so happened. i don't now i still can't understand why i haven't stayed with her why i left her.
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it's up to review board to decide whether the mother can share a room with her child or not. will be given permission if she decides to abide by the rules and is prepared to be with her daughter soon the review board will also consider another convicts appeal this time by yulia smell nova. and. hill b seven month. firstly the board considers her behavior some don't abide by the rules other simply don't want to raise their child for example smoking is prevented at the childcare center so some mothers choose to leave their children of the center and live together with all the other convicts to be able to smoke cigarettes. stuff of the cullen a cult force mothers to live without children trying is only likely to make matters
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worse. in my experience there was one case when the muscle was deprived of her parental rights when she was already here at the colony of she didn't even call him by the first name she called him by his last name instead and when she asked the child to do something and he didn't do it she yelled at him in an extremely rude manner and the final straw was when she bit her own child.
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the nine residents rooms to obey country as no deserving mother should be a felony it. is eight months pregnant a first child will be born in the colony if she's to be allowed to stay with him she'll have to face the review board. today will learn how to swaddle a baby. and let me show you. i want to be with my child i'm not abandoning him under any circumstance that i will spend all my free time with him you know i don't understand it how women can abandon their children is not what can happen in a woman's life to make abandon her child. because i think a woman must always be with him you have a child and you won't for nine months if you don't go for an abortion right from
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the start and decide to give birth to him then it means that you need him that you love him and have always loved him. the women who live together with their children apart from taking care of their own child you must also help with the other children who live separately from their mothers but it is very hard work. and we shouldn't forget that these people have been displaying antisocial behavior drugs alcohol having a child is something new and unknown for them it is easier for them to get drunk then take care of a newborn child. right . yeah.
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just. hello my sunshine. how are you how's school in the day i hope it is interesting as it was for you before. i'm very happy that you're swimming it's very good for your health. and sun i hope that everything is fine with you. i look forward to your reply. love mama. genever gave birth to her child here she lived with yvonne while taking care of other children as well as her own life was much easier for have them than it is now . it's impossible to express it in words i don't know. i think no mother could put it into words to
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say that is hard for us to say nothing. ever now lives far away from his mother with his grandparents because of us are reserving a second prison sentence for drug offenses and sometimes i'll go home with them and my mother in law or someone else will say that i must've thought about it on. truth they also tell me that sometimes he suddenly become silent when he's doing his homework on them they ask him what's the matter when he doesn't reply but i do that and swims but then he says well nothing. but just been thinking about mom for someone so i think of him and he thinks of me that the bond between a mother and child is very strong indeed which i'm something to miss him. very very much
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it's bad. i told you i wouldn't be able to hold back my tears. according to the law yvonne was removed from the center when he turned three the age at which children are either sense to live with relatives or to children's homes however each woman has to prove that she deserves to spend those first three years behind bars with their children natalia eugena and usually a small nova will have to face the review board this privilege.
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a huge responsibility you mediately become clever and more mature you try to be more serious as for all convicted mothers the reno will live with her daughter for the first three months after that every woman has to prove that she deserves to stay with her child those that fail to convince the board will be separated from their babies just at odds and i will try not to break any rules i will have bay the staff guards and i won't argue with anyone well i don't know if necessary i will cry out insult to everyone and ask to let miss day with my child she's my first we won't be able to stay apart. and the feel of sweet heart. more attention residential zone call it more me in the hour please proceed to the duty officer more i repaired call michael meehan the obvious procedure the duty officer.
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though my darling go. really was being visited by her mother who was hoping to meet the new granddaughter but she hasn't been allowed to bring her newborn baby to the meeting. so why are you here i'm ok how is maria raised to still weeks old and i can't see her today i want to see her so much at least a glimpse of her they said they would let me show her to you but we have to wait until she's one month old. but you take care of her place of course her well. house daddy is ok he's working. you're going gray
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well i had a heart attack i spent three months in hospital i felt very bitter about what had happened but there's nothing to be done. i hope that all will be well and it won't happen again. of course they feel very sorry for my granddaughter because she was born here and i wouldn't wait until she turns three i take her home as soon as she doesn't need to be breastfed it's not the right place for a child. i'm pretty selfish when it comes to this question i would leave him here with me so you think it would be better for him to be here somewhere yes with me so with me it doesn't matter where but with me still as for i listen i can say it confidently
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that she's a mother to the core her eyes become warmer her facial expression changes she becomes pride or as if the sun were shining when she talks about her son now she's expecting to be let out on parole if everything works out fine we will all be very happy for her. we had such a case when convict audition a couple was released on parole. three children are at an orphanage now i asked the woman but she kept in touch with how it was doing they told me she had been taken her children home yet why she says she's got a lot of things to do. recently we heard that she landed in jail again with. every case is different no two cases are the same not all rules can apply to
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everyone some women give birth to their children to make their life easier. for example the woman having a child can't be put into punitive isolation ward with her. well unfortunately a child often repeats their mother's ways it's a vicious circle other words sound. my mom was also raised at an orphanage and also ended up here when she was pregnant when i was born here in one thousand nine hundred eighty six i don't know how to explain it is this what people call destiny i don't remember anything here i only remember that i was sent to an orphanage from here. and i tell you what and i was placed in a children's home several times because her own mother frequently ended up in jail
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when the girl grew up a self she followed in her mother's footsteps natalia has now been convicted eighteen times. i was stealing the school i had a hard time finding a job so i stole i still some money what else can i say. when i was released from the colony i came home to see nothing but bare walls there before you managed to find a job you should somehow make ends meet so the next day i went out to steal some money. natalia has refused to live with her child because she wanted to make some money for her retired mother that at least is how she explains it. to you i think it's easier to stay in an ordinary ward she finishes her work goes to bed and that's it nobody will wake her up at night because her baby is crying you might be teething or your stomach is aching or maybe is just wet and needs
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a diaper changed so she has a good night's sleep and comes back can do morning to check on her child. what is fine and well fed other women are taking care of her child as a mother it's a fine situation. i think i won't dare to steal any more i don't know what i'm going to do but i try not to think about stealing if i have to live in the church i well if i have to plow the earth the most important thing is that everything is fine with her. that's as usual they swear that it was the last time and they'll never do it again they promise to live a normal life after they are set free but then they come back and i asked them so you're back and they say well it's just my fate. hello how are you all everything's fine so all birds be released soon me.
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how many days left twenty days twenty days well ok so i'm a global don't come back never. some leave the colony and soon end up back in here i know that many simply get to a certain place. and come back because they have nowhere to go. where they have no job no money they don't know where to go many don't even have a place to live. psychologists have been watching closely in just a few days she'll face the review board in competition with natalia. for co-residents with their children. is she really lost her child and worries about him. when in any comes from the children's department she always asks about her
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little alexander his sleeping sleeping. are you sure he's not crying does he need his diaper changed. that i think it would be pretty difficult for anyone to act like this other than an actress. tomorrow. will be putting on another sort of performance but the review board will be the audience it's up to them to decide whether or not the two mothers deserve to live with their children. just. convicted under article one thirty nine section four sentence for six years and eleven months has appeared before the board concerning coincidence with her
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child at the childcare center. to have a positive character she works at the child care center she's a loving mother of her child she spends time with him takes him for walks and feeds him we do not have any compromise and material against me she has not been involved in any conflicts and she is only good terms with other prisoners over the three years she's had only one violation concerning wearing the uniform shows no disrespect to the administration and i think she'll be a good example to others she wants to be with a child i'm the most important single. convict natalia sentenced to one year and six months has appeared before the board concerning co-residents with her child at the child care center. convict has displayed negative behavior so should refuse to take care of her child she doesn't visit her child on
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a regular basis sometimes through fuses to come herself and we have to call her. you have multiple criminal records. why does this keep happening. it just happens they have been no incidents of breaching discipline however they have been many complaints about to proper conduct towards the administration her behavior is arrogant and rude i haven't had any arguments. well yes there was one instance which i am not denying but it was not my fault. we understand that your mental state is disturbed but our staff is not responsible for that i realize that and i admit i was wrong the board will discuss the matter. the result later. many women here make themselves believe that they love their children in other words when they are here the very atmosphere the
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contrast between the colony and the childcare center and the fence between them it impacts them. or seems to be absolutely different even if there is no she will show it she won't pretend. transfer to the child care center the review board has accepted your appeal. thank you. so you may transfer to the center to join your child starting today thank you so much. taking into account the opinions of the members of the board we cannot allow you to live with your child a president you should behave appropriately fulfills all of disciplinary requirements and treat the administration with respect you still have a chance to have your appeal accepted the board will revisit your application at
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the next review hearing do you have any questions now that is old goodbye ok goodbye. hello my darling how are you school and our school just. now it's cold and wet outside so please dress warm sun you're the best thing in my life everything will be fine i promise you i'll be back soon very soon ok i have to finish this letter now i'll call you soon. love mama. what will you tell your son. when you meet again. that i love him.
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