The prison experience Elizabeth Holmes is desperate to avoid
On Friday, a US district judge will decide whether Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of medical testing company Theranos, can delay the start of her 11-year prison sentence while she appeals her conviction - in part due to her two young children. Her case points to what experts say is a blind spot in the prison system: the routine separation of new mothers from their babies.
Last week, Angelica Zaragoza sat on a large black bus as it drove two hours south from Dallas to a women's prison in Gatesville, Texas. Ms Zaragoza, 44, was joined by a dozen young girls, all travelling to see their mothers.
Emotions were high, Ms Zaragoza said, a giddy excitement that lasted for the four-hour visit, arranged each month by the Dallas non-profit where she works. But when the time was up, their sadness set in.
"We had a little girl, it was her first trip and when we went to leave she says: 'Why can't my mommy come with me?" Ms Zaragoza said.
