'You become institutionalized, incarcerated in your mind. From what you wear on your feet, to when you sleep, when you eat, if you get medical care, all of that is out of your control. That dependency, it does something to people.'
grew up in New York City and — after years of trauma, endurance, and neglect in the prison system — now live in Queens, New York. Slightly condensed versions of their stories are shared onDeborah H., formerly incarcerated woman, mother and activist"I'm from New York City, born and raised. From sun up to sunset and back to sun up is always something to do. Always something to get into. There's always some kind of scam or something going on. Some kind of trickery going on.
I was an addicted mother with addicted husbands who did criminal activities. Yes, I had the legit jobs, but their fathers didn't. They were hustlers in the street. My only regret in life was I didn't sacrifice for my kids. You know, mothers, when they sit down and decide to have children they say, OK, the criminal matter, I'm going to leave that. Here are the lifestyle changes I need to make to be the mother my kids deserve.
The program I started in Albion Correctional Facility was called Cans for Kids. I sought out churches, CO's, CEOs, Knights of Columbus, etc and asked them to donate. Whenever girls got sodas from commissary I told them to bring me their cans. Fifteen hundred females with cans is a lot of cans. Ten years pass and new crews come in. Now I am being called Grandma. That's when I told myself I won't stay there long enough to be rocking in the penitentiary getting called Great Grandma, I couldn't do it.
We, you know, from the slave ships, we were the ones singing them love songs, belly to belly and all the feces and stuff. We held on and kept everyone together and told them, “I love you and just hold on ‘cause we gon’ make it.”On her name
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