Mom died of cancer, dad in prison: 'I'm one of the lucky ones'
"I've been through a lot. But you can't fold. You just can't fold, because when you fold that's when you're gonna end up in jail or dead," he said
'Momma made mistakes,' so daughter loses her childhood
I didn't have a childhood growing up. I was on an adult line," Sharika said of her early years. "I'm watching sex go on in this room. I'm watching gambling go on in this room. I'm watching dogs fight each other in this room.”
When parents go to prison, children pay
Ladd, 31, was arrested for possession of half an ounce of marijuana in 2011 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
How to break the 'generational curse' that keeps communities in fear, poverty
"He has these fits of rage where he gets real angry. But we know underneath all of that he's hurting because of his mother and his father's situation," Delone said in an October interview inside Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he was serving a life sentence for armed robbery.
A young mother returns to prison despite desire to break the cycle
Shania said by all rights she shouldn't be alive, that she had a lot of close calls, a lot of guns pressed against her head during a time when she spent most of her days robbing people and selling drugs.
