MEGAN THOMPSON:

Researchers at Columbia University compared babies who lived in prison nurseries to those raised by mothers outside with similar risk factors, like drug addiction. They found that a larger number of the prison-nursery babies developed secure attachments.

Another Columbia study found these children were less anxious and less depressed once they got to preschool, compared to babies who'd been separated from their incarcerated moms.

And, most children of prisoners are separated. All the moms in the Wee Ones Nursery and of most the other inmates have older kids they had to leave behind.