Prison program strengthens family ties between incarcerated moms, children

Point of the Mountain • It was the little changes that the mothers noticed first.The son who has grown so tall that, at 14, he towers over his mother’s head.The voice that’s starting to change and crack. The “two big people teeth” where baby teeth once were.And the freckles.“I didn’t think he would have freckles,” a surprised Elicia Chavez said, beaming at her young son, whose cheeks now are speckled with a constellation of spots. “It was like