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Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go. But Rosalind Williams' memoir is unique because her unconditional love for Marell persisted after his conviction for murder. During his sixteen years in prison and for two-and-a-half years after his release, every aspect of Rosalind's life was affected by her fidelity to him and by the failures of a penal system tinged with racial and class inequities.
Rosalind tells a personal story with enormous significance to society. She is an unflinchingly fair, sometimes self-critical narrator who reflects upon the enticements of violence and crime, especially for African American young men, despite the values they are taught at home. Her experiences demonstrate the damage that crime and punishment inflict upon those good people who stand by loved ones during and after incarceration. This memoir will comfort anyone related to the 2.3 million people behind bars in the United States. Others will hear a call to reform and, more importantly, they will feel compassion for the offender's family, and the offender.
No other book in print takes Rosalind's perspective on the problems of crime and incarceration.
Contents
Section I: Visiting The Jail, February 4, 1996 to October 9, 1997
1. That Night
2. Looking Back
3. That First Week
4. That First Month
5. That Spring
6. That Summer
7. That Fall, the Holidays, and Another Year Begins
8. Partings
Section II: Visiting the Prisons, October 10, 1997 to May 28, 2012
1. Transition
2. Prison for Real
3. Opportunities Lost
4. The Penitentiary
5. The Dark Shadow
6. Still Standing
7. Illness and Death
8. Secrets
9. Sunday Dinners Again
10. Too Much Freedom?
11. Risky Relationships
12. Home Visits
Section III: The Prison After Prison, May 29, 2012 to December 1, 2014
1. Parole
2. After Parole
3. Free at Last
Afterward and Acknowledgments
About the Authors
