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The orange ribbon is worn to promote the value of families of prisoners |
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Graphic created by Princess, member of Families: Doing Time Together ring |
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Artwork by Wade Aikins, SD State Penitentiary |
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Our Story... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My name is Hope and my husband is in prison. Wow, that doesn't get any easier to say. |
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Well, we have known each other for about 12 years as friends. He had always had another person and when we really started talking about three years ago he was in prison. I went to see him and it was like, "he's the one". |
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Our relationship grew and I stood by him for the 16 months while he was in prison. He asked me to marry him while still incarsarated. Of course, I was in-love so I said YES! August 1997 he was granted parole and released September 1997. We were married November 22, 1997; aside from being "Saved", that was the best day of my life. |
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We built our house and everything seemed great; a few months later I noticed Dale acting different. I wouldn't find out until a few weeks later he was using drugs again. This would turn out to be one of the worst times of my life. I tried to hide things from my family and his, but it is kind of hard to lie about why your husband is not coming home at night. |
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Finally I had enough, so I went to his parole officer. He called Dale in that day and gave him a drug test. Needless to say he was very mad. He was ordered to go into treatment or go back to prison; he chose treatment. I thought we was doing fine until I received a call at work saying, "Dale is in jail". |
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My parents and his went and got him out, he was charged with a weopons charge and a stolen van. The weopon was not his and we had just bought the van; but since they were both felonies his parole was violated. After paying an attorney $5000.00 that was dismissed, but once your parole is revoked you have to stay in prison. He was picked up in August 1998, just 11 months after getting out. |
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We were hoping he would be home by July of this year, but he has been charged with something esle. It seems like once you are in the system you can't get out. It gets so hard to deal with, but through faith and prayer we can make it through anything... |
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