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My name is Penny.  I lost my father, Charles Carden this week. He has battled a long illness and in November he fell and broke his hip. My dad had congestive heart failure, diabetes, kidney failure and was on dialysis, had a total of 11 heart attacks, had 3 open heart surgeries, and 9 stints placed in and around his heart.  My son, Josh has been in and out of jail since he was 13 years old. In fact, he has spent most of his adult life in jail and is now in Ventress correctional facility in Alabama. Josh has several mental health issues and now has to sit in prison while I bury my father.  The prison has a policy that states an inmate may have a one hour visitation with a deceased family member.  they have to be transported to the site and no family can be with them. The trip is about a 700 mile round trip. We have to pay by the mile (God only knows how much that trip would cost) for him to be able to visit his grandfather. With Josh's depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, I am afraid of what that trip and alone time would do to him or worse yet, what he would do to himself. So, I do not know if it would be a good idea to make this happen or not. He was supposed to be released in October of 2016, but had an outstanding drug case that occurred a few years before the one that got him in prison. The district attorney and my son's attorney reached an agreement that his punishment for the outstanding crime would be considered part of the current time and end in October... the judge did NOT honor that agreement and instead sentenced my son to an additional three years. Now the earliest release date he has is April  2019.  his grandmother is also ill and going down hill, I have end stage RA (rheumatoid Arthritis)  and probable cancer...  Meaning that not only will he have lost his grand father, but possibly his grandmother and now the real probability of losing me. with the failing health of my family, I feel that this has been enough of a punishment.  Does anyone know if there is anything I can do to get this sentence thrown out while he still has some family left?.  Losing ALL of his family is just too much of a penalty to pay.  If anyone knows of anything I can do please let me know.