I will place some the pregnant woman essays here at this site. Yeah. Sick stuff. Not unique either.

Thank you for posting. I have a cousin currently incarcerated in a state prison. I’ll have to participate in this gut-wrenching series after he is released. It hits homes too closely right now. I’ve visited him several times but can’t shake the worry and anxiety about what he deals with while incarcerated. Hopefully he will be out by the beginning of next year.

I’ll keep all that you have encountered in my thoughts and prayers and hope to be able to take in your insights next year.

I am truly sick at the essay on the pregnant young women. I cannot imagine.

For now, the writing is my path- giving the women a voice and presenting the reality of incarceration day-to-day. I harbor no resentment, and am grateful for the many things I do have.

I am not at all surprised to hear about your son, and he is very fortunate that he did not get entangled in bogus criminal charges. You must be so proud of him and his work counseling children today, what a remarkable young man, and I am sure he is proud to have you as a parent.

Again, thank you for the read and the kind comment.

The smaller jail had COs that showed respect, but didn’t put up with nonsense. If it were necessary to remind about a rule, it was done conversationally, but firmly.

The larger one had some COs that were bustards. Even inadvertent minor rule violations were treated as major big deals with shouting and humiliation. In this jail, I tended to identify more with the inmates! Interestingly, many of the inmates, especially the young ones, had never been convicted of relatively minor crimes. They just didn’t have bail money but they were in there long enough to qualify to take the GED test.

On one stop, they gave him a summons for court and no ticket and no explanation of what the court date was for. We had to hire an attorney. The officer waited 2 months to put in the ticket. It ended up “suspected drinking/drugs and careless driving” though no test of any kind was carried out at the stop and no mention of a drugs or alcohol. He also said my son was “weaving lanes” verses the “short stop” that the officer told my son at the scene. The attorney said we were lucky he was not in criminal court. My son was 22 at the time and did not drink. He volunteered his time leading a community youth group while in college.

There was nothing to present except reference letters to my sons character. Fortunately the “suspected impaired” part was dropped and we only had to deal with the careless driving.

It is amazing what a slighted officer will do and the power they yield. My son today is a child treatment counselor at a group home. Thankfully the other parts of the stop did not impair his upcoming career. It is awful yours did not turn out as fortunate. My only hope is this all happened for a reason of giving these women a voice and you will be redeemed and restored for the entire horrible ordeal.

In McCracken there was one sort of not very constructive, one-hour drug class each week, and at Ricky’s World, there was a wonderful priest who was like a counselor, one AA meeting each weekation class each, and one basic adult education class each week.

It would be nice to see NGO, not religious, constructive and productive program geared toward an inmate being clean, sober and self-supporting through her own contributions upon release, but I did not see it in the jails. Prison was a lot better until the programs were cut. I do not know the status of any of the programs today, but I believe there is great need.

Is there allowances for NGO to come in and provide some of the addiction counseling, literacy, and life skills needed? Is there recognized literacy programs that utilize NGOs to teach inmates reading, writing, etc?