Just got a phone call from Corey, he was crying, I panicked thought something was really wrong, he said Mom I am so sorry I will not be with you tomorrow on Mothers Day...I told him I will be there waiting when visitation starts at 11:45, he said I know but its not the same I should be there taking care of you on your day, you take care of everyone everyday this is your day...Yep hes still a mommas boy always will be.
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SO Frustrated, just got off the phone with Corey, his public defender came to see him today, told him the good thing about being a public defender is I don't have to sugar coat anything we are taking this to a jury trial and walked out. So because my son cannot afford a real attorney (I am working on that now) he gets treated like that....Just want to cry again
well i made it 4 hours today with no tears. but they are again flowing still , 12 days no calls been 2 months since i seen my son . why do they have a right to separate us for so long . how are we as mothers supposed to go on. i hurt so badly .
It's been over a month now sense my son has been locked up. Apparently the SWAT team had grenades and tear gas. A week ago Sunday I was visiting my son and he told me this 18 year old kid got raped in the shower from this inmate in his dorm. The other dorm inmates made him beat him up and the 18 year old got charged with assault. I was angry when I left that that had happened in a county jail, not a prison so when I left I talked the guards about it. They asked what my sons name was and at that moment I was worried. I had not heard from him all week but what happened seems beyond real. The guards grabbed my son and told him do you want to go in the hole for 5 days? They said don't ever do that again. We could have lost our jobs. He was terrified. Can you even believe it? My son told me the guards only see what they want to see. I feel like writing the local newspaper. I am so angry and I feel so powerless. I need a lawyer with me when I go visit. This whole experience is so evil and seems so middle ages. I can't even believe it. Thanks for letting me share.
I'm going to refer to all of the other mothers on here as veterans. I'm new at this, and having such a difficult time. I'm finding that I feel bad if there is anything to enjoy, and I feel guilty if anything is funny. I'm having a hard time balancing faith and worry, knowing that worry is opposite of faith, and that all equals to me to being a failure. It's hard because my incarcerated son is not my only child. I have 6 kids, one of which is a pediatrician married to a lawyer, and another daughter who is going to dental school. I have a daughter who just had a baby, and I'm having to put so much effort into anything that should make me smile. I'm not doing well at all with this adjustment, and what can I do sans going and getting a precription? What are your experiences, please share.
Victims of perpetrators who work in a professional capacity
Victims of "professional" perpetrators i.e., physicians, dentists and psychologists, may have a good chance of collecting both from their perpetrators and their perpetrators' malpractice insurance carriers. The victims need only show that the victimization took place during the course of or as part of the perpetrators' professional employment. In this regard, the location of the crime scene might be important.
I got a letter from my son a week or so ago and he told me that he filed a appeal when he first got to Wasco prison but a week later he sent a paper withdrawing his plea because he said he knows I do not have the money to get him a good attorney and its just going to be a waste of time for him to go to trial with a attorney who will not fight for him or believe in him so he is just going to settle with the 34 yrs and its killing me because they screwed my son all the way around they never did no investigation and they would not let him fire his attorney all they would say is your son looks like a gang member and no jury will find him innocent so its either 34 years or life wow is there much of a difference in that my son will be 60 years old when he comes home it breaks my heart
Last I heard from Jackie on here was the night before her sons sentencing and she hasn't been on since. I developed a supportive kinship with her and she was soo nice to send my son cards when he was still in county. I know she was so distraught also because they did not accept her sons plea deal. We both had young sons incarcerated and her son was even younger than mine. I'm worried about her and her son and was wondering if anyone else heard from her? Maybe I could look up her son on the inmate locator and see where he is at so I can send him a card out.
this is about my son hes 23yrs old and has been sentenced to 56yrs in prison for non violent drug related burglary his trial was not fair my son is afraid i will die before he gets out and he will have no one to help him ,i cant let that happen he does not deserve the punishment he received so i am asking everyone to plz read and sign my petition and help me get my son a new trial in a different county and hopefully a sentence reduction thank you cindy http://t.co/FUDLujDPo8
They keep moving my son! He finally got out of Montgomery County jail to serve his sentence. Went to TDC then to Austin State Jail. Just as he begins to get settled. Get book orders, signed up for classes, Montgomery deceived to sepia him for a trail in Montgomery that never happened. So after almost 2 months they finally came and got him. Brought him back to TDC and now they have no clue where he goes from there! This is the first time my son got in any kind of trouble so I haven't had to deal with all the mess but is it always this unpredictable?
To me that's a bunch of tax dollars that keep getting wasted! REALY? So frustrating. They just don't care!
Len Rhodes
DEAR GOD......Thank you for creating me with emotions so that I can experience life all around me.Give me the wisdom and GUIDENCE to control my emotions so that they don't control me.Speak to me th through your word and guide me by your Spirit.
IN JESUS NAME......AMEN By Pastor David McGee THE BRIDGE
My son Joseph has now been home for about 3 weeks and I am so tired of stressing myself out because he knows and I know he needs a program and I do not feel he is really trying to get into the program so I had to sit him down and tell him look I am not going to keep nagging and pushing him about the program he knows he has 2 strikes and can not mess up for nothing if he chooses to not go and get right there is nothing I can do he is 24 and I do not think I can handle both of my boys being locked away forever but I am killing myself with stress and I can not keep doing it he knows what his consequences will be so I am backing up a little and leaving in God's hands and I pray every night that what ever he chooses to do that he can handle the consequences God bless everyone and may you all find the strength you need to make it through each day
This is the 1st time in like never that I haven't decorated for a holiday.......I gotta get it together here. I always loved decorating :(
Tell me how it's been for you to write your son after they have been arrested ? I am on the fence about how to respond. I do not want to tip toe around his drug addiction and the fact that he has comited crimes that has gotten him into so much trouble he may be spending years in prison.
Its so tricky because I don't want him to feel worst but I dont want to sugar coat the fact that he has been so sick for so long (at least 17 years).
If I just sweep it all under the rug and act like its all puppies and rainbows that is not very helpful. But if I am real and write from the heart, he could feel terrible after I write. I know he feels so terrible about himself as it is.
How do you MISS mothers handle this?
He had dual diagnoses and is self medicating but none the less the crimes are so huge, I am so much inner shame and I am devastated.
Thanks for your feed back in advance.
Its only been 13 days.
~pamela
Disgusting.
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I visited my son on Sunday, 4/13 his birthday. He received only one birthday card. He was disappointed. I think I did all I had too for him to receive cards. His cellie who recommended your org. received many.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This site is helping me so much. I just feel so much better knowing that others can relate to me. Thanks so much for all of your support! Blessings on your families!
It has been one week that my son has been incarcerated. I saw him yesterday and he is down to 140 lbs. He is 6'3". He wont eat the food and he has food allergies. I begged him to eat the fruit and veggies. It's like he is starving himself to death. He said the food has maggots. Has anyone else had sons with mental illness and got power of attorney? My son is dual diagnosed with depression, PTSD and addiction. He has been self medicating. I brought all of his meds to show the nurse. I got the idea on here from another mother who wrote me. He told me he would grant it to me. How do I get the paper work to him? I did not get any calls back from NARA, we are Native American, or NAMI, National alliance of Mental Illness. Is there any other resources out there? I am an art teacher and not very smart about legal issues. My plan is to be able to advocate for him because he has no voice in there. In many ways, he has no voice because of his illness. Does anyone know if there are any books out there to help families dealing with these issues? Thank you for all of your support.
