In this interview, Yolanda Mills discusses her childhood growing up without parents, her involvement in prostitution and substance abuse, and the death of her son. She also discusses her history of sexual abuse in her family and foster care. Keywords: Housing and Homelessness, Sexual Violence, Substance Abuse.
Keywords: Prison
Life, Prison
Industrial Complex,Public
Policy Personal
Narrative
Children Do Hard Time for
Their Parents' Crime by Kim Mikesell
Kim Mikesell tells the
price that children pay when their mother is taken away. About 82% of
the population incarcerated today is drug related. Of the female
population 75% are mothers that were their children's primary caretaker.
Keywords: Personal
Narrative, Children of
Prisoners, Motherhood
Being an Inmate
by Tammica Summers
Tammica tells of personal perspective of
living a life as an inmate; Being an inmate takes everything you have!
It's like having an out of body experience in which "you" must come out
of yourself and use all manner of determination, self-preservation,
sacrifice, compromise, strength, and extreme measure of self-discipline
to will yourself to do what is required...to will yourself into being an
inmate. Keywords: Prison
Life,Creative
Writing, Personal
Narrative