ABILENE, Texas — An inmate has recently transformed the visitation area at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice French Robertson Unit in Abilene. Michael Wood, an inmate and artist, painted ...
The New York State DOCCS has limited family visits for incarcerated people, causing stress and disruption to their lives and ...
A prison visitation room. Incarcerated mothers serve their sentences an average of 160 miles from their homes, so many never receive a visit from their children. Research consistently indicates that ...
Utah State Prison inmate Brian Maguire knows how important the Willy the Plumber scholarship can be for the child of an incarcerated parent. Maguire’s son has never forgiven him for “not being there ...
In a Missouri prison visiting room in 2017, Judy Henderson collapsed to her knees. The then-60-year-old woman had spent 35 years behind bars, serving a life sentence without parole for a crime she ...
When visiting hours start Friday morning at the Denver County Jail, inmates will have their first-ever chance to shed their prison jumpsuits and wear normal clothes while talking with their loved ones ...
KENAI — A sign on the prison wall said Angela Hall could embrace her husband twice, once at the beginning of visitation and once at the end. No more than five seconds per hug. It was a blustery ...