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A long prison sentence, and a lifetime of waiting
Posted on July 9, 2008 | 1 CommentThe first time Emani Davis’s father saw her as a baby, he was behind a glass partition at the Brooklyn House of Detention. At that moment, neither imagined that this first encounter would set the stage for most of their... -
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Killing in Utah
Posted on January 21, 2008 | No CommentsThe New York Times had this piece and is related to my previous post: Vietnam veteran's Posttraumatic Stress Disorder rips family apart. This piece is about Lance Cpl. Walter Rollo Smith, who was "profoundly shaken by his experiences in Iraq." -
Children wondered where parent had gone
Posted on August 20, 2007 | No CommentsAngelo and Angel Pinet were 10 and 11 years old respectively, when one day they began to wonder where their stepfather, Jose, had gone. What the boys did not know yet was that they had joined the ranks of another 1.5 million American children with an incarcerated parent. -
Financial hardship adds to a family’s struggle with incarceration
Posted on August 6, 2007 | 2 CommentsEvery corner of Jenny Carrasquillo’s home bears the memory of her husband, Jose, who is serving a 32-year sentence for sexual assault. But despite Jenny’s efforts to downplay Jose’s absence , his incarceration has hit her hard. -
Years after leaving prison, a mother still feels the consequences of her incarceration
Posted on July 19, 2007 | No CommentsJanet Taveras has no pictures of her children when they were little. She missed the big occasions like birthday parties and the Christmas holidays. She was far away--both physically and in spirit. When her children were born in the mid-80s, she was addicted to drugs and in and out of jail. -
Makeba's Column: Who is your parent?
Posted on June 28, 2007 | 2 CommentsOne young woman's struggles with the weight of her incarcerated mother. -
Multimedia reporter joins Lives in Focus
Posted on June 7, 2007 | No CommentsAna Maria Toro, a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has joined Lives in Focus as a multimedia reporter for the summer. I would like to thank the school for allowing her to meet the internship requirement by working for the "Family Life Behind Bars" project. Ana will be reporting and producing pieces using audio, video, photographs and text to help broaden the coverage. Independently of this project she has been covering the criminal justice system. -
Parenting by phone
Posted on May 20, 2007 | 4 CommentsJay Coleman, the man we met in an earlier piece, spent 25 years in prison but tried to stay as involved as he could in raising his children. He talks about how the telephone became the way he was able to be a father present in the lives of his children. -
Makeba's Column: What it takes to be a parent
Posted on May 15, 2007 | 1 CommentHere a young woman talks about being raised by godparents. And how she was affected about the way they spoke badly about her incarcerated mother in her presence. -
Makeba's Column: A special Mother's Day
Posted on May 10, 2007 | 5 CommentsIn her first column, Makeba introduces us to her mother as the two prepare to spend their first Mother’s Day together.
