When LaTonya Myers was serving a six-month sentence at State Correctional Institution Muncy, she noticed the women alongside her received hardly any visitors, even if they had a lot of children.
“Nobody got a lot of visits,” Myers said. “The bus is just like $100 to get up there. It’s just too far.”
SCI Muncy is about three hours from Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania’s other women’s prison, State Correctional Institution Cambridge, is six hours away. There’s no easy way to get to either, Myers said…