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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 29 - Fall/Winter 2004

< Dedication
 
< To All Mothers in Prison
 
< A Bill of Rights for children
 
< Stress on families
 
< Mother-daughter in prison
 
< Family values
 
< Valores Familiares
 
< Our Voices Within: Our Journey
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Judi Ricci, Presente!
 
< Theresa Azochar, Presente!
 
< Book review: Couldn't Keep It to Myself
 
< Charisse Shumate video
 
< Mujeres, Latinas y madres: la triple resistencia
 
< Women, Latinas and mothers: the triple resistance
 
< Peace and Justice Community Summits
 
< Family is Hard Won
 
< Prison Tears Families Apart
 
< Giving Voice to Family Members
 
< It's Your Health
 
< To pregnant women in prison
 
< Disappointments with Prop 66 and Prop 69 Results
 
< Asian Prisoners' Revolution
 
       

Prison Tears Families Apart

L. N., VSPW

I have been beaten, raped, molested, abandoned, rejected. I was left with a broken spirit. Being a mother was the best thing I ever did. My eyes lit up only when interacting with my children.
Now I am a state away. We have le
ft one abusive situation for another. But the love for my children survives. My children are left motherless, with an abusive father. I have been shut out of their lives. Court orders have been violated and my voice goes unnoticed.

My fight will never end until I have contact with and see my children again. Do they remember they have a mother who loves them with all her heart, who never forgot them?

By separating mothers from their children a whole new generation of people are wounded and lost and tend to end up money-hungry in an abusive system. Children wanting their mothers pay severely for their loss.

Our society should be ashamed. Long termers need our visits, if only for our families' well being. The hurt doesn't need to continue.

Last updated August 11, 2005 06:38 PM


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