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It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Husband Went To Prison And It Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Sometimes I think of how life would be if that day in September were just a horrible nightmare, and you know what? I don't want that life.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: Once Upon A Time I Went to Jail… For 'Satan Worshipping'

IHTM CONTESTANT — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:00:00 -0500

Many incidents of kids and young adults arrested in Lebanon due to their dark dress and musical tastes pop up everywhere. It really is a crackdown on alternative lifestyles which is pretty archaic.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Taught In A Men's Prison

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:30:00 -0500

I was single and not unattractive, so I kept my long red hair in a permanent bun with a sharp pencil stuck in the side. I never wore makeup and purchased a realistic wedding ring.

It Happened To Me: I Have Been in Prison For 6 Years

Chandra Bozelko — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0500

Ever since I was convicted of 14 crimes -- all white-collar-type financial offenses -- I've been living at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution.

It Happened to Me: I Write to Murderers

Jessica Katharine Murray — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:00 -0500

I have written kind words to men who have done awful things: a drug-addicted man who stabbed an elderly couple to death when caught committing a burglary; a man who shot his girlfriend in the face; a man who shot a friend during an argument over a woman.

CeCe McDonald and the Safety Paradox of Transgender Prison Inmates

Lesley — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:00:25 -0400

CeCe McDonald is currently living with the general population of a men's prison in Minnesota. The question remains of whether she can ever really be safe as long as she's incarcerated.

Judge Punishes Honours Student With Two Jobs for Being Late To School

s.e. smith — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:00:21 -0400

Oddly enough, the best place for youth is not the prison system.

It Happened to Me: I Put My Rapist in Prison

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:12 -0500

It was actually kind of a blessing in disguise that I was so badly injured, as it later made it hard for him to claim it was consensual.

It Happened to Me: My Brother Is In Jail

Molly C.H.K. — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:17 -0500

The circumstances were unclear. He'd been at a friend's house -- an older woman we didn't know -- and he'd been drinking, and someone had called the police, and now he was in jail.

It Happened to Me: I Worked in a Women's Prison

Rachel Schullo — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:00:13 -0400

I was stationed at Lowell Correctional Facility in Florida, which is a maximum security prison for women.