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| A Film Review for A Sentence of Their Own by Mary Shilton In the film A Sentence of Their Own, the impact of one man’s incarceration ripples through his family in concentric circles of hope and despair. The family’s connection to a husband and father now imprisoned is challenged by the isolation of Becky Raymond and her two sons as they struggle with daily life and travel once a year for visits to the New Hampshire State Prison. The documentary details the intensified stress, social dislocation and poverty that challenge many partners and children of prisoners who live just outside of the American dream. Although partners and children experience uniquely difficult circumstances, there are few family support systems, school programs or human service safety nets to help the families of persons sent to prison. What makes the Raymond’s experience so compelling is its uncertain connection to each of our lives. Their experience has rippled through our lives without our knowledge, an unconscious dark reminder of the American dream unfulfilled. Mary
Shilton is the Executive Director of National
Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities. |
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