I have some new people in my life and I met them in a rather unusual way because a couple of Sundays a month I drive 25 miles to volunteer at a library where they live the women all live together and for now that is where they will stay we always meet where they live it is not possible for them to visit me where I call home they work in the library which I supervise which is housed on the grounds where they live hard workers they are proud to check out and shelve books as a part of their job earning about 49 cents per hour time with them is spent chatting and sometimes being a bit silly always polite and respectful they call me Miss Joyce often they are complimentary about the clothes I wear expressing their likes about colorful pair of tennis shoes with multi colored laces maybe because their attire every day is either blue or gray sweats, sweat shirts, tees or knee length shorts I believe that each of them has a special story about why they are living here however they are closed mouthed about who they are and the their life details what I do know is that they are a human being just like me and worthy of being treated with dignity in truth I know they have all made a mistake are now paying the price for a choice or choices they have made we all have make mistakes and in some cases lucky that we have escaped the legal consequences I am hoping the wrong choices they have made and now the price they now pay and that the stigma of that error will not forever be who they are maybe someday I will see them after there stay here is over somewhere else wearing colors bright with their freedom a present sight ### Joyce Knock - volunteer - women's prison amzn.com/author/joyceknock joyceknock.com #prison #mistakes #women #inmate #life
September 13, 2017 at 11:17 am
All of us have made mistakes and we will continue to make mistakes. We can’t let our mistakes define our future. These special women should all be treated with dignity. They are humans, have families, and have futures outside of their place of incarceration. Thanks “Miss Joyce” for making their lives happier and brighter. You are a dear friend to so many. Love, Becky
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September 20, 2017 at 2:00 am
How long; how long will it take for all of humanity to get this?
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