Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. A story about women behind bars. This toddler must find a new home when he turns 18 months.

Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. A women's prison in Marseilles, France, is home to inmates and their children, ages infancy to 18 months.

Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. Women in Pardubice, Czech Republic, display arms scarred with slashes and cigarette burns. Self-mutilation is common among female prisoners all over the world.

Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. This inmate in Rouen, France, says she ws convicted of killing her abusive husband. Her children live with her mother, and she won't see them for 18 years.

Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. In the U.S., women in labor are handcuffed and shackled when taken off prison grounds. Doctors often insist that restraints be removed.

Jane Evelyn Atwood Second Place, Freelance/LIFE Magazine, Women Behind Bars. When mom can't come home. At the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, 18-month-old Zheronte visits his mother, Azure Lynch, 19, who is doing time for armed robbery.