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Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent of a past-marriage; and though the courts had dissolved the marriage long ago, the matter of parenting was still being debated (by me)__ut prohibited by the courts. I had to accept the possibility that my days as a father might be behind me while remaining dutiful to the possibility that, at anytime, circumstances could change. On the one hand, I am a former-father, but on the other hand, I cannot be anything but a father to my children__t any age.

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H. Kirk Rainer

A Father and Future Felon

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The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods.

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Michael Finkel

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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Contentment sounds ideal; and ignorance is bliss! But what remains of truth, justice and liberty? Why can millions of parent do what I did, and not give the law a consideration? Why do I have to suffer the losses of divorce__he pain and sorrow so accompanied the plight of once-parent, now non-custodial? So much more could be preceded by __hy___o as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I__ whining. But I am whining, about why_.

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H. Kirk Rainer

A Father and Future Felon

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She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There__ a married couple talking to their daughter. There__ a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not only because it__ a house of criminals but also because it__ a cold slap in the face, a reminder of where she will eventually end up. __ou__e got to stay with me the whole time, Callo! I__ serious, you CANNOT leave me here._____l never,_ Callo vows, but he__ eyeing her strangely. __ust remember which side of the glass you__e on right now, Geraldine.

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Rebecca McNutt

Listen is Silent, or The Usurer

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A mosaic of memories takes me back to my own childhood, and then to my children. My earliest memory of St. Augustine was a day trip from Jacksonville; a day with some neighbors who were nice enough to purchase me a plastic toy-tugboat with a blue superstructure and white hull. Other accounts meld into my adult years. With its history and attractions, The Ancient City is pristine and picturesque by most accounts; but from the Newer Jail (not the Old Jail) , the perspective is very different.