To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.