Incarcerated Young Mothers’ Bill of Rights From A Vision to a Policy at San Francisco Juvenile Hall

• Published in: Interrupted Life p. 317
• Main Author: Sanchez, Sophia
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 26.12.2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Age of majority; Behavioral sciences; Bill of Rights; Center for Young Women’s Development; Child protective services; Child welfare services; Children; Constitutional amendments; Correctional institutions; Correctional system; Courts of law; Criminal justice; Criminal law; Criminal punishment; Families; Family members; Federal law; Gender and Sexuality; Government; Government services; Human populations; Human societies; incarcerated women; Jails; Judicial system; Juvenile courts; Juvenile Justice Center; Law; Legal age; Legal status; Minors; Mothers; Parenting; Parents; Persons; Political science; Population studies; San Francisco; Social institutions; Social sciences; Sociology; United States Constitution; United States constitutional law; United States federal law; Women; young mothers
• ISBN: 9780520252493; 0520252497
• DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520252493.003.0062

In November 2006, there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Juvenile Justice Center in San Francisco, and planners asked the Center for Young Women’s Development (CYWD) to provide a speaker on the Incarcerated Young Mothers’ Bill of Rights, which had recently become policy for the new facility. I and others at the center wanted to make clear that CYWD was not there to celebrate the opening of a new prison to house young people, but that if the city was going to open a new jail, it needed to have a policy and procedure to protect the rights of