Little Haley is one of 340 babies born each year to mother's serving sentences at Valley State Prison, in Chowchilla, California.
With on average 120 inmates pregnant each month only a handful of women are lucky enough to avoid separation from their infants.
Strange said: 'I accept the consequence of my crime; I accept the fact that I broke the law. But what does that have to do with my child?
Inmate Laura Strange was shackled to the hospital bed after giving birth to her second child
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Inmate Laura Strange was shackled to the hospital bed after giving birth to her second child
'Giving her up was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.
'I hurt every second of the day for her.'
Photographer Mark Allen Johnson was allowed access to the prison and its pregnant inmates to capture the struggle of giving birth behind bars.
Being pregnant does not secure expectant mother's special treatment at Valley State, the world's largest prison for women.
With nearly four thousand inmates, they are forced to continue to rub shoulders with murders and violent offenders at the 640 acre site.
'Being pregnant does not give you better treatment,' one expectant mother complained.
Another alleged received threats of violence from her fellow detainees while she was with-child.
Blonde-haired Strange was taken from her prison cell at the onset of labour to Madera Community Hospital where she gave birth by cesarean section.
Just two hours after the delivery, a booming voice breaks the silence of the ward, 'Strange, fifteen more minutes.'
Eager to enjoy their last few moments together, the new mother quickly feeds the infant from a bottle of baby formula whispering: 'Momma doesn't want to send you away on an empty stomach.'
Gazing down at the shackles around her ankle that confine her to the hospital bed, Strange shakes her right foot. 'My damn leg fell asleep again,' she moans.