Week Six, Episode 12 - FACTS, COMMENTARY, RECAP

Week Six, Episode 12

FACTS, COMMENTARY, RECAP

     What a week?  I always receive so many blessings daily in this storm, and this week

was no different.  President Obama published a survey and new rules on clemency/

commutation of sentences. The survey was on our computer, and of course I applied.

This system is broken, and the President and Eric Holder understands this.  Will

I be sitting at the table with my children and grandchildren, and the rest of my family

this holiday?  It is always a possibility.  See, the thing is, you never know what God

has in store for you, so therefore how I spend my days is by being right with the people

around me, remaining positive, and busy, and capturing everything that comes my way-

I don't know what is for me or not. 

     Mother's Day is a very big week in prisons throughout the country, and it is no

different in Danbury.  Most of the population are Mothers and Grandmothers.  There is

usually a big meal, a special dessert, and even a movie played just for mothers here.

Where are the children and grandchildren, and how are they?  That's the question.

Because Mothers/Grandmothers are in here on this day, who is doing Mother's Day dinner

for 200 families/many children and grandchildren?  That is what the feds never considered.

There is a serious domino effect to having a parent or grandparent if that is your support

system, being locked up.  The New York Times posted statistics recently that said children

with at least one parent in prison is 6 times more likely to end up in prison themselves.

The same article talked about how each America that is paying FICA/federal taxes pays

about $260 a year in taxes to keep the $80 Billion dollar prison farce going.  This is not

about community safety, and it surely is not about rehabilitation.  If you do not have the

drive to rehabilitate yourself, then Hip-Hop Atlanta, Housewives, Scandal, and several

other shows become your world of reality in here.  I don't blame the women that escape

the pain of missing their children by pouring hours into the big screen televisions we have

here.  I feel their pain, and everyone deals with it differently. 

    It is just that because 25% of all Americans are convicted felons and America is

definitely a prison Country, I would like for it to do better- we are supposed to be so much

better, especially on Mother's Day.

My Mom is gone- Fellas, if your Mom is living, give her a hug today. 

     For you mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day, and I would like to serenade you-

    "Be glad that you are free, cause many a man whose not, be glad that what you had

ain't what you got."  That is Prince/Roger Nelson/The Artist, or whatever his name is-

I loose track, but this Sunday, cherish your freedom and time with your children/grandchildren,

cause thousands of women are in prison, missing their children, and mothering on the

telephone.

 Rhonda Turpin

May 7, 2014

Danbury Prison Camp

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