Reblogged from theanimalblog
The children bounded off the bus and ran excitedly towards a tall fence topped with razor wire. In the distance, through layers of fencing overlooked by a guard tower, huddled a group of mothers in baggy blue prison-issue clothes, pointing, waving and gasping. Many had not seen their children in over a year.
An annual Mother’s Day event, Get On The Bus, provides free transport for hundreds of children to visit their incarcerated moms at California Institute for Women in Chino, and other state prisons. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles from their children, and visits are impossible for many.
California locks up more women than any other state in the U.S. — 11,250 in 2007 – and three quarters are mothers. The children left behind with family or in foster care often feel abandoned and some don’t see their moms for years.
PHOTO BLOG: “Mother’s Day behind bars,” by Lucy Nicholson
A villager bathes a parrot by holding it underneath a tap after it fell from a tree on a hot afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India. Picture: Biswaranjan Rout/AP
The Pinta Island tortoise is the rarest animal in the world. There is ONLY ONE LEFT on Earth. His name is Lonesome George.
Honestly, who the hell wouldn’t want to hug the crap out of that tortoise?
They’d better fucking bank his sperm in case they find another one after he dies.
(via blogalltheanimals)
