>Users:   login   |  register       > email     > people    


Prisoners Get Holiday Visits
By theadvertiser.com
Published: 12/22/2010

TALLULAH — What Terry Gains would really love to be doing for Christmas is standing in her kitchen smelling the pot of gumbo simmering on her stove, pecan and pumpkin pies cooling on her table, with her daughter watching for the chance to make an early run on the food.

Instead, Gains marked the holiday seven days early with her incarcerated daughter, Roxanna, and other family members, sitting at a metal table, drinking soft drinks and eating snacks from the machines along the wall.

"My girl loves my cooking," 55-year-old Gains said. "She would be eating from morning on if she could." Roxanna Gains, an habitual offender, currently serving time for possession of heroin and a gun, tries to make the best of it.

Read More.





Comments:

No comments have been posted for this article.


Login to let us know what you think

User Name:   

Password:       


Forgot password?





correctsource logo




Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of The Corrections Connection User Agreement
The Corrections Connection ©. Copyright 1996 - 2025 © . All Rights Reserved | 15 Mill Wharf Plaza Scituate Mass. 02066 (617) 471 4445 Fax: (617) 608 9015