Is there a place for the other parent of a child with lives with a parent in prison?
In France, England, and Wales, children of a detained mother can live with her in prison until they are eighteen months old. In this context, the parent in prison is, contrary to the usual situation, the person who maintains daily affective relations with the child. Can non-imprisoned parents exercise their civil rights and maintain a link with children in custody ? Can French and English law overcome their heteronormative and gendered conception of the family in prison, in which only a female detainee is authorised to keep her child with her ?