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She was abused and abandoned as a child, raped and left for dead in the woods as a teen, and lost custody of her children as an adult struggling with violence and a drug addiction.

So at age 33, when Lisa Whitford found herself pregnant in jail, awaiting a murder trial, she scared herself straight – weaning herself off illegal and prescription drugs to stay clean.

She delivered a healthy baby girl last March and has successfully raised the infant in a provincial remand centre. And now – with the help of a University of B.C. law professor and two caring lawyers – she will become the first woman in B.C. to keep her baby in a federal prison.