Advocates have ideas being hashed out by a state task force. Hear Sean Crawfords interview with reporter Maureen McKinney. Attorney Alexis Mansfield said her clients have told her troubling stories of what happens when small children reach the glass in a jail that separates them from a parent. “They’ll be so excited because they miss their moms terribly,” said Mansfield, who is senior adviser for children and families at the Women’s Justice Institute and a member of a state task force on children of the incarcerated. “They haven’t known where they were. They might not understand, especially when they’re so little.” “And they will run to their mom, seeing their mom in that room. And they’ll get to the glass and they can’t get through it. And you’ll hear stories again and again of kids banging on the glass trying to get through, crying, putting their hands up trying to reach their moms.” This Illinois Issues story is a follow up to one last week on efforts in the state to help this
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