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Prisoners reunite with loved ones for one afternoon
By miamiherald.com- Emily Cochrane
Published: 07/16/2015

Warren Harris didn’t recognize his daughter.

Six years ago, he said, she was knee-high, with barrettes and bows bouncing in her hair. But the teenager who walked through the door had grown six inches and didn’t need a barrette to hold back her long wavy hair.

“She was a little girl,” he said. “Now she’s a woman.”

Wednesday morning was the first time Warnisha Davis, 16, had seen her father since 2009. Harris, 31, recently transferred from Liberty Correction Institute in Bristol, Florida, to Everglades Re-Entry Center to finish a 13-year prison sentence for armed burglary.

Before she arrived, Davis was afraid she had forgotten what her father looked like, she said. But when she saw him, she wasn’t afraid anymore.

“I cried,” she said. “But it’s wonderful.”

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