filmmaker author and founder of the heart island project linda hunt works with women like elaine see how the island's be made into a park. it's inappropriate to expect a pot plant can turn someone has lost a child have to contact the department of correction and to make arrangements to visit the island and then not to be able to go to an actual grave site. this is mark taylor great detail. lawyer mark taylor works when the grieving mothers pro bono many of them in our work we did not subsequently have children. so they have stillborn children who are buried out on the island. and for them looking back in their life. it's something that's as good as meeting in importance to the access to the crazies is impossible because the graves are not marked loss records last great for storing your own records of their shoddy conditions. corrections has not done a great job of maintaining silence is part of. you know that the new york software does or does the bible our prison system after a battle that lasted years. eight mothers including elaine have recently been informed that the will be able

and it's only by kind of chance locked in by accident that they heard of the island project which linda hunt runs whom you saw in our report and through her they were able to after fighting for years to get finally this permission so certainly there are many more people out there who might be wondering where their relatives are who might be searching but in this particular case it's these eight women who have been kind of plowing through for years to get this permission and even though now they will be able to visit the grave sites first of all for some of them they don't know exactly where the grave site of their particular baby is because it's mass graves with thousands of babies kind of. in mass which is horrifying in itself but also they can't you know bring anything they can just take one person with no flowers no no nothing so it's really still like visiting a prison very much as opposed to visiting a grave site and an associate we have less than a minute left but how likely is it that hard island would be turned into a public square. well i people who are fighting for this are saying

. >> and the winner is linda hunt!hase. >> whoopi goldberg. >> margaret avery. >> "the color purple" was given 11 nominations. >> "the color purple." >> and then each time the movie was called, we didn't win. so that's a tough evening to sit through. >> i could feel this, um, hunger and grasping in me that i didn't like. >> hey, you, you've got a watch on. will you tell me the time? >> that's an academy award winning part. she should have hop an award for that. not my award. >> and the winner is -- ellen bersten. >> you're caught in this terrible squish between, you know, a really heavy dose of vanity and pride and arrogance on one side, and a really heavy dose of humility and insecurity on the other. and you're sort of squished in the middle. >> dustin hoffman. [ applause ] >> i would like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control. [ laughter ] i'm up here with mixed feelings. i'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to be able to work. >> it's not a sport. in sports, whoever wins wins. the oscars are not li

. >> and the winner is linda hunt! >> "the color purple" was given 11 nominations. >> "the color purple." >> and then each time the movie was called, we didn't win. so that's a tough evening to sit through. >> i could feel this, um, hunger and grasping in me that i didn't like. >> hey, you, you've got a watch on. will you tell me the time? >> that's an academy award winning part. she should have hop an award for that. not my award. >> and the winner is -- ellen bersten. >> you're caught in this terrible squish between, you know, a really heavy dose of vanity and pride and arrogance on one side, and a really heavy dose of humility and insecurity on the other. and you're sort of squished in the middle. >> dustin hoffman. [ applause ] >> i would like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control. [ laughter ] i'm up here with mixed feelings. i'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to be able to work. >> it's not a sport. in sports, whoever wins wins. the oscars are not like that. >> i refuse to believe that i beat

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