
When the cell door opened, I gasped at the sight. The cell was so small I could not extend my arms completely. Locked in the cell were two mothers with their babies. This baby is 4 months old. The floor was so vile and infested with rat droppings, the infant only has the steel bed on which the mother and baby sleep to move upon. The Smell was putrid, as if a rat had died in the cell. These women, and their infants, in accordance with Human Rights laws, are released for 60 minutes each day and locked in an open courtyard, slightly larger than the cell. But because there is so much ice on the ground, the mothers choose not to go out, especially in fear of their babies falling ill from the freezing cold, or being attacked by other prisoners.

