Interview with Sheryl Abel
In this interview Sheryl talks about
experience in prison and how she walk out the prison and is walking back
in without handcuffs and shackles helping the women she left behind. And
how she became the CEO of H.O.P.E. Inc. Keywords:
Motherhood,
Prison Life,
Reentry
Interview with Annette
In this interview, Annette explains how she came to work
in the sex industry and the impact it has had on her and her family.
Annette describes how her drug use led to her involvement in the sex
industry and shares some of the dangerous, violent encounters that
ensued. After being incarcerated on drug and prostitution charges,
Annette reflected on her lifestyle and decided to make a change in her
life. Now, she works for the Department of Human Services and is active
with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Keywords:
Prostitution,
Substance Abuse.
Interview with Joanne
Archibald
In this
interview, Joanne Archibald discusses the impact of her federal prison
sentence on her life, her relationship with her son, and her ability to
move on with her life afterwards. Keywords:
Motherhood,
Prison Life,
Reentry.
Interview with Hilda
Berghammer
In the
course of being interviewed by Carolyn Watson and Salome Chasnoff, Hilda
Berghammer discusses her life beginning with her immigration to the U.S.
at age 9. She was involved in a series of abusive relationships, before
being arrested on charges related to driving under the influence. She
details her experiences inside Cook County Jail and Illinois state
prisons, describing the intake process and the physical space of the
prison. She also talks about her experiences in prostitution, and
discusses her relationship with her son. Keywords:
Prostitution,
Domestic Violence ,
Prison Life ,
Motherhood,
Substance Abuse.
Interview with Diana
Delgado
In this interview conducted by Joanne
Archibald and Salome Chasnoff, Diana Delgado tells the story of her life
beginning with the loss of her mother at age 12. She discusses her own
experiences of mothering, which included losing her first child to SIDS,
giving birth while shackled to a bed, and being separated from her
children while serving an 8-year sentence. Keywords:
Motherhood,
Prison Life.
Interview with Denise Dunkley
In this interview
Denise Dunkley talks about her childhood growing up and her personal
experience of being incarcerated and being a lesbian Keywords:
Family,
Gender,
Prison Life,
Sexuality.
Interview with Naoma Dye
In this interview conducted by Carolyn Watson and Salome Chasnoff, Naoma
Dye discusses her life starting with childhood, through her involvement
in the drug and sex trade, and continuing on through her incarceration
and eventual release. Keywords:
Family,
Prison Life,
Reentry,
Substance Abuse.
Interview with Joann
Franklin
In this interview with Carolyn Watson, Joann Franklin
discusses her life, including drug use and relationship violence, before
the arrest that led her to prison. She discusses relationships in
prison, including her impression of widespread lesbian relationships in
the prison and her own relationships with men housed in the same co-ed
prison. She also describes the prison ministry that she started with
her husband upon her release. Keywords:
Domestic Violence,
Relationships,
Program Description.
Interview with Donna
Henry
In this
interview with Carolyn Watson, Donna Henry gives a detailed account of
being raped at age 15, starting heroin at age 23, and entering Dwight
Correctional Facility. She talks about losing her children to DCFS and
the steps that she is taking to have them returned. She also describes
her experiences in a drug treatment program within the prison, including
a typical day and the worst day. Keywords:
Sexual Violence ,
Motherhood,
Prison Life ,
Substance Abuse.
Interview with Iyrania Hill
In this interview
with Carolyn Watson and Salome Chasnoff, Iyrania Hill describes her time
serving a twenty-year sentence beginning at age 18. She discusses her
life in prison, including five years spent at a medium-security co-ed
prison and the ways people maintained romantic relationships behind the
walls. Keywords:
Prison
Life,
Labor,
Relationships.
Interview with Lucretia Clay
Lucretia's involvement in the sex industry began at the
age of 12 when her mother sold her to a pimp. A mother of three,
Lucretia has been incarcerated, has battled drug addiction, and is
H.I.V. positive, but she is currently trying to go back to school to
become a drug counselor and is working to develop new relationships with
her children. Keywords:
Motherhood,
Prostitution,
Reentry.
Interview with Yolanda Mills
In this interview,
Yolanda Mills discusses her childhood growing up without parents, her
involvement in prostitution and substance abuse, and the death of her
son. She also discusses her history of sexual abuse in her family and
foster care. Keywords:
Housing and
Homelessness,
Sexual
Violence,
Substance
Abuse.
Interview with
Brenda Myers
In this
interview, Brenda explains how being sexually abused as a child
contributed to her involvement in the sex industry as she got older.
Beginning as a dancer in clubs, she eventually ended up working on the
street where she was more vulnerable to abuse by her customers. After
one particularly traumatic experience, Brenda decided to leave
prostitution and currently works as an H.I.V. prevention specialist.
From her 25 years as a sex worker and her current involvement in the
Prostitution Awareness Round Table, Brenda offers remarkable insight
into the various forms of prostitution in the city of Chicago. Keywords:
Activism, Prostitution,
Sexual Violence.
Interview with Tina
Reynolds
In this
interview Tina talks about family, prison life and becoming co-founder
of a organization W.O.R.T.H. (Women On the Rise Telling Her Story)
Keywords:
Motherhood,
Prison Life,
Reentry
Interview with Rose
Rose
discusses serving her 10-year sentence for planning to kill her abusive
husband. Her interview included a discussion of her relationship to her
children, her views on same-sex relationships in prison, her work at the
beauty salon, and the racism that she witnessed the guards display
against women of color. Keywords:
Domestic Violence,
Motherhood .
Interview with Pamela Thomas
In
this interview, Pamela Thomas discusses her life, beginning with her
life on the street as a teenager and her abusive relationship with an
older man. She discusses her children, her relationship to her parents,
and her path into drug addiction. She also describes her path out of
prison, including a later parole violation that arose after she called
the police for her personal safety, and her current work in the social
services. Keywords:
Substance
Abuse,
Reentry,
Motherhood.
