Published on Tuesday, May 16, 2006
By San Gabriel Valley Tribune Staff Writer
Squeals of delight and emotional sobs filled the visiting room as, one by one, women clothed in gray and blue uniforms entered to embrace their children with complete abandon.
The toll of the separation between mother and child could been heard in these cries, seen in their desperate clinging, their inability to keep their hands from one another's faces, arms, hair.
The reunion, Friday morning at the California Institution for Women in Corona, was made possible for many of these families through the Get On The Bus program. The program, which began in 1999 in response to the low number of incarcerated women who see their children, brought children for a day-long visit with their mothers.
Many of those children rarely see their moms because of a lack of transportation. Such was the case for Monique Gastelum, 19, of Hemet, who had not seen her mother in four years
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