The Island of Lost Souls: Heartbreaking truth behind New York cemetery and one woman's journey to pay her respects to her dead daughter

 

Hart Island is final resting place for a million still-born babies and paupers

Access restricted, photos banned and burials performed by prison inmates

After a 36-year wait, Elaine Joseph became one of first eight women to visit

Her daughter Tomika was born two months prematurely and died in 1978

Mass graveyard began in 1869 and 1,500 fresh bodies arrive each year

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