Your Voice
Mom’s Prison Sentence You say you’re in hell paying your debt. Well, I’m in solitary confinement, on this you can bet. You are forced to face and pay for your error. I hide from living life, stay to self, avoid mirrors. I can’t even gaze my own eyes in reflection. The hurt is so deep it’s like an infection. Alone I remain in my own hidden pain and hope everyday, that you change your direction. […]
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Life Lessons Learned from Inmates When I was a Prison Teacher My education as a prison teacher came from the inmates themselves. As one who has always had a healthy interest in the criminal justice system and who had childhood aspirations to become a police officer or prosecutor, never did I imagine that I would get such a valuable education in my previous position as an Adult Basic Education/GED teacher in prison as I have and […]
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Sending Money and Supplies to Friend in Prison My friend was incarcerated and needed money and supplies while he was serving his sentence. He was arrested because he was driving with an expired registration. It didn’t happen just once; he was driving with an expired registration and was stopped, and stopped again, and stopped again. He was finally arrested and put in jail. Over the course of about two months he was in and out […]
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Working with a bail bondsman I had never known anyone in prison until my friend was accused of making a threat against his child’s school. He wanted them to take care of a situation with his child and got into a heated debate with the principal. Things got out of hand and the principal called the police and said he was making threats. He was arrested and called me for help. Being the good friend […]
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Social worker can bring a child in foster care to visit their parent(s) in prison I am a Family Services Case Worker, also known as a Social Worker. I have a caseload of children in foster care and also have relationships with their parents and sometimes they have a parent in prison. I try to keep in touch with all of the parents of the children I work with. The parents that are incarcerated locally can call […]
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Visiting Prison from the Outside and Inside as a Visitor and Inmate Prison Perspective as a Visitor I went to visit a friend of mine in prison. I am a white guy and visited a black friend at a prison. It was weird because it seemed that the guards had a problem with a white guy visiting a black friend. So this was my first experience as a prison visitor (from the outside). I went to […]
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