Jun. 19, 2009
Incarcerated Fathers Prepare to Be Paroled Into Parenthood
As Father's Day approaches, Joseph Cooper shares prisoners' insights about making up time to their kids.
Joseph H. Cooper
Joseph was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996, and now resides in Culver City. He is compiling his prison-related articles for publication as "Corrections - Essays from Inside: The In-Prison Education of Inmate-Students and Their Language-Arts Professor."
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By Joseph H. Cooper "It's hard to have quality time when you're doin' time. My fault. No one to blame other than myself. But the sentence I'm serving is also being served by my son, 'cause I can't be there for him - at his side; or in his face, when need be. My sentence put him in a kind of solitary. That can't be good for any young boy, for any young man." Those sentiments were gathered (garnered and melded) from three inmates a...
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