Saturday was a day of celebration for the women behind the concrete walls lined with razor wire at the Folsom Women’s Facility.
In this photo Audree Loaiza,11, writes a note to her mother, Andrea Fabbri, an inmate at the Folsom Women's Facility in Folsom California.
The car is long gone, and Mercuri won't be going anywhere until January, when she completes her sentence for forgery and fraud.
"I was worried she would forget who I was," said Carmona, who is serving a sentence for assault with a deadly weapon.
Other children played pingpong on two concrete tables, had their faces painted and played pickup games with footballs and basketballs.
At Folsom Women's Facility, Erica Carmona, 21, tirelessly chased her 3-year-old son the entire visit, grinning as he kicked a soccer ball around the yard or tugged her along with a jump rope.
Seven prisoners, including a former head of a local tribal council, had filed a petition before the city's high court asking permission to watch the ongoing World Cup cricket matches. (Photo: PTI)
A handful of programs in other states, including Florida and New York, provide transportation to kids as part of a larger mission to help prisoners and their families.
A free, nonprofit program called 'Get on the Bus' arranges a visit for children to visit their incarcerated parents in California prisons around Mother's and Father's days.
The cinder block walls were decorated by the inmates with hearts, flowers and the names of their children, because today, their children were coming to pay them a visit.