Again, the first chapter talks about the women’s prison overall being about their children on the outside and the families they form on the inside. The fact that their children, if they have any, supposedly mean so much to them kind of confuses me because they knew the life they were getting into and yet they didn’t seem to care at that point, so why do they care so much. For their own survival? Thinking only of themselves? That’s what that says to me. I mean my mom brought me and my sister up alone my dad didn’t always make the child support payments, but yet she didn’t resort to drugs or crime, she worked hard overtime, what ever she had to do she did to make me and my sister happy and be able to get to where we are today. These moms talk to their kids, usually only through mail or phone, but yet don’t have the courage to see their kids in prison. I would see this as a way to discourage their kids from growing and becoming like them.
The point that women’s prisons form families, seems to me, as much as they say women’s prisons are different than
Another interesting finding was the fact that the biggest race differences was between the staff and prisoners, rather than the prisoners themselves. I guess this difference can be seen anywhere in life still, but the fact that people still have these prejudice feelings is no good for anyone. Still the situation does exist; therefore you just have to work with it. What I mean is that you have to go with the flow know what you can and cant do as a prisoner and go that way to serve your time and get out to see those children that you left behind.
The development of the families is interesting, how they decide what part you will play and who you are in the family is interesting to me. Whether you are the dad, or the son, the wife or the daughter, you don’t really seem to have much say, the family that you come into gives you that “identity”. Though it is apparent that here you do not have to take part in the family system, unlike in the men’s prison, you still have a chance to survive. In the man’s prison it is very hard to survive on your own. It’s int
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