Docuseries

In the debut episode of the Corrections Connections docuseries, Correctional News goes inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility — New York’s only maximum-security prison for women — for a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the nation’s oldest prison nursery program and the innovative initiatives supporting motherhood, education and successful reentry.

Featuring insights from New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III, Bedford Hills leadership and staff, partners from Hour Children and Hudson Link, and the incarcerated women working to build brighter futures, this episode explores how dignity, opportunity and collaboration are reshaping outcomes in women’s corrections.

From correctional education to family-centered programming, Episode 1 highlights what people-centered progress looks like in modern corrections.

For the second episode of the Corrections Connections docuseries, Correctional News Correctional News gets a behind-the-scenes tour of the Little Scandinavia unit at Pennsylvania’s SCI Chester prison, where a research-driven application of Nordic incarceration principles is reshaping the experience of confinement.

Hear directly from Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary Dr. Laurel R. Harry and SCI Chester Superintendent Gina Clark, who were initially skeptical but have now fully bought into the concepts, the Drexel University researchers charged with tailoring the program for an American model, and the Little Scandinavia residents who cook, exercise and care for the unit together.

See firsthand how this progressive new approach to corrections is creating a safer, more collaborative community inside SCI Chester, and how these principles could be applied to improve environments and outcomes in other facilities in the future.