Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Shaina Alloway (left) Reese Reed and Morgan Brodt laugh while watching their babies play inside of the Hope House where residents in the ABCs program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women live, in Marysville. “We’re all in prison here, we all struggle, but raising a child here is a whole different struggle that people wouldn’t understand if they hadn’t been there,” Brodt said. “And to have that with each other, it’s a bond like you wouldn’t… Like we’re learning, we’re learning to not just be parents, but parents in prison and we’re doing it together.” (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Steve Brown walks towards the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in an Easter Bunny suit, in Marysville. The infants regularly see a pediatrician and are enrolled in Early Head Start, the school readiness program. Additionally the program aims to give the children as normal of a childhood experience as possible. This includes celebrating holidays with crafts and activities, and visits from Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Pediatrician Andrew Searcy (right) and Abby Small talk during a schedule medical checkup for her 8-month old daughter Gianna while officer Joe Bisang attends his station inside of the ABCs nursery program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Morgan Brodt kisses her son Axel inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Even being in prison I’m more free now than I was in the madness of my addiction,” Brodt said. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”A dream catcher is seen hung in the window of Reese Reed's room inside the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Abby Small holds her 2-year-old daughter Quam Judah while her father and mother Tom and Terri Small hold another of Smalls daughter’s, Gianna Judah, while the two children meet each other for the first time at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Inmates move about the kitchen inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. Individuals in the ABCs program purchase their own food from a dispensary inside of the prison and take it back with them to the Hope House, where they live. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Morgan Brodt talks with Corrections Officer Ernest Vehorn while holding her son, Axel, inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Whenever we get somebody in over [here], the line I always use is, ‘If you’re going to be in this place, you just won the lottery,’” Vehorn said. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Abby Small (center) hugs her mother and daughter after saying goodbye after a family visitation day for inmates in the ABCs program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Shaina Alloway (left) Reese Reed and Morgan Brodt joke with each other while watching a baby monitor inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Women's Reformatory, in Marysville. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)
![Feature Picture Story - Second Place, “ABCs Nursery Program”Morgan Brodt talks with Corrections Officer Ernest Vehorn while holding her son, Axel, inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, in Marysville. “Whenever we get somebody in over [here], the line I always use is, ‘If you’re going to be in this place, you just won the lottery,’” Vehorn said. (Joseph Scheller / Ohio University)](images/fps2_08.jpg)
