Mom breaks down in tears telling daughter she'll be in prison for another 8 years

A mother has broken down on a British television show after telling her daughter that she could be in prison for another eight years.

The incident took place on Channel 4's docuseries Prison, which featured an unnamed inmate being reunited with her daughter Kayleigh after the child was forced to move 20 miles away after her mother's imprisonment to live with her dad.

This is the moment a mother told her daughter she'll be in prison for eight years: 

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"You look better than when I saw you the first time," the prisoner says to her daughter Kayleigh in the clip above. "Obviously, you're going to stay at your dad's aren't you, until school starts?"

"Depends," replied Kayleigh. "How long are you going to be in here for?"

"'In here?' Looking up to eight years," her mother replies before bursting into tears. She then adds: "You do make me proud."

This man's courtroom outburst earned him another six years in prison: 

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The clip is from the final episode of the award-winning series. Entitled Family, it explores the emotional difficulties of being a mother behind bars, the Metro reports.

In it, the show's narrator reveals that as the result of a mother's imprisonment, 95% of children are forced out of the family home.

The episode above is set in Foston Hall prison where over 300 women are incarcerated for crimes ranging from failing to pay fines to murder.

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In Foston Hall, regular contact between a mother and her children is seen as the key to preventing reoffending. However, this contact is difficult to maintain when in the UK alone, upwards of 15,000 children are separated from their incarcerated mothers every year, per the Metro

The final episode of Prison is aired yesterday evening.

Meanwhile, in December of last year, outrage was sparked when an eight-year-old was strip-searched by prison staff while visiting her father.