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| A female prisoner holds her baby on her lap at Prey Sar prison on International Children’s Day in 2010. This year, due to stricter rules, photographers and recording devices were not allowed inside the facility. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan) |
Thursday, 02 June 2011
Mom Kunthear and Mary Kozlovski
The Phnom Penh Post
Sitting under a tree in the courtyard at Prey Sar prison’s Correctional Centre 2, 20-year-old Chav Longdy is counting the days until she can take her 10-month-old daughter, Alita, outside the facility gates to play with other children.
Serving a three-year sentence for robbery, with one year remaining, the young mother hopes to shield her daughter from her early upbringing.
“I won’t tell my daughter that she was born in prison … because I am afraid she will be upset and shy,” Chav Longdy said yesterday. “I will keep it secret forever.
“I pity my daughter because she cries every day and she is sick sometimes because the room is hot. More than 20 people stay in one room,” she added, claiming that prisoners were only permitted to leave their cells for 30 minutes at a time.
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