Kate, the Princess of Wales, visited a prison Tuesday to put a spotlight on the effort to keep mothers connected to their children even while behind bars. Kate traveled to Wilmslow, Cheshire, nearly 200 miles outside of London, to visit HMP Styal, a prison that houses around 400 women ages 18 and over, according to Kensington Palace.

On a visit to HMP Styal, in Wilmslow, Catherine was shown a project designed to forge strong and healthy relationships between mothers and babies "even in the most challenging of environments". The princess,

Kate urged to ‘tell them the truth’ by women inmates during prison visit - The Princess of Wales has made the promotion of the early years development of children one of the key elements of her public work.