Prison Mothers

By Erroll Shepherd

Tasha does everything in her power to make the best out of a bad situation while in prison. She obtains college credits, stays out of trouble, studies the law religiously, and tries to be the best mother she can be over the prison phones, since she was incarcerated in a federal prison, far away in another State from her child.
There was no question that Tasha needed to be the best mother she could be to her daughter, because back home in California, her teenage daughter Tiffany was being wooed, duped, and misled. Her grandmother was a product of the streets; she exposed Tiffany to life’s ills & uglies way too soon, which could leave an everlasting effect, for the good or the worst.
Tiffany’s boyfriend and childhood sweetheart Derrick, would be the culprit, and the deciding factor in Tiffany being duped, and misled through Derrick’s wooing, and Tiffany’s grandmothers exposure to life’s ills & uglies, would soon be tested to see if it helped, or hurt her ability to see through the slick words of a young man, that was taught improperly about, how young women should be manipulated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Erroll Shepherd
• Release date: Jun 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311169143

Erroll Shepherd

Erroll Shepherd was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Los Angeles. After years of being negatively influenced by older dudes from the streets, then getting older himself and continuing the negative influences on the youth under him, he decided to turn a negative into a positive by rebuilding what he helped tear down. Through his writings, he refrains from glamorizing a negative lifestyle by skillfully and craftily writing with a strong compelling lure, which he demonstrates to the youth that crime doesn’t pay.

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PRISON MOTHERS

By

ERROLL FLYNN SHEPHERD

PRISON MOTHERS

Copyright © 2016 by Erroll Flynn Shepherd

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Acknowledgement

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Women who’ve experienced doing time as a mother has had to undergo a serious psychological experience that very few people can fathom, especially those that have experienced giving birth behind bars, that is the last thing that any mother would want to endure.

I would like to acknowledge all women that has given birth to a child behind bars, no matter what type of crime was committed, a mother shouldn’t have to be subjected to giving birth behind bars, and a child should not be birth into this world that way, when the child hasn’t committed a crime at all.

For those women that are incarcerated with long lengthy sentences for what’s called ghost dope, mandatory minimums, guidelines, and non violent crimes, there is some hope, so keep your head up. They are making some changes, first it was amendment 706 two point reduction in 2008, and then there was amendment 750, 18 to 1 in 2011, when the sentencing commission acknowledged that the crack v. powder disparity was unfair to minorities, so instead of 100 to 1 they moved it to 18 to I, which clearly says, "It’s not 100% bias anymore, it’s only 18% bias now.

I want to acknowledge you women because men are always the focus of ill treatment, when anybody that can think can clearly see; women are always PUBLIC VICTIM #1.

INTRODUCTION

Keisha and Tasha had been in and out of trouble their whole lives, just like the saying, Like father like son, with Keisha and Tasha, it was, Like mother like daughter.

Tasha finally got pregnant herself and gave birth to a beautiful little girl name Tiffany, that Keisha, the grandmother became over protective of. Keisha and her sister Pernella shared in raising Tiffany, and sheltered her away from the lifestyle that her and her daughter Tasha had chose.

If it wasn’t for Tasha’s, aunt Pernella, they would have awarded Tasha’s daughter Tiffany to the State of California. Because Pernella was the only family member who didn’t have a criminal record, the State awarded Pernella full custody over her niece Tiffany.

While Tasha served out her prison sentence, Tiffany excelled in school, and the school of hard knocks, that her grandmother put her through, especially after a frightful experience with a grown man at the age of 10.

Although Tasha’s aunt Pernella had custody over Tiffany, Keisha would still be able to take Tiffany with her on these wild field trips on the other side of the tracks, and around some very shady characters.

This way of life went on all the way up until Tiffany turned into a teenager. Even though the things her grandmother put her through were harsh and tough, it also gave Tiffany an advantage to a certain degree, that other young girls would never obtain without it.

While Tiffany went through many trials, her mother Tasha also went through hers in prison, she too excelled in school after deciding to further pursue her education, and make the best out of a bad situation.

Both mother and daughter were fighting their way through a cesspool of confusion, and trickery to reach their goals and bulls eyes, the more determined they were to succeed, the trickier the pathway got, and the confusion grew.

During Tasha’s stay in prison, she had formed a pack with several women from various States in the federal prison camp in Bryan Texas. They all looked out for each other during the years they were there together, and then they all started leaving one by one, until Tasha was the last one standing.

Ms. Kay who was the leader of the pack, kept all of the women together and as a pack, even after their release. She and the other women kept a promise to do everything they could to get Tasha out of prison and back home to her daughter.

Things needed to happen soon because her daughter Tiffany was in high school and she was into boy’s, well just one boy anyway, her childhood sweetheart, Derrick.

Derrick was pulling Tiffany in a direction that could change her life indefinitely, and if someone didn’t intervene soon, the saga would continue, Like mother like daughter.

Chapter One

As soon as you quit that screaming, and yelling, and hand over that baby, the better it will be for everyone. Calvin said, as he stood directly in front of Tasha, who was laying on the bed with her legs as far apart as they could open.

Girl he right, it’s past the time for me to get off work, you should of been gave birth to that lil1 nappy headed child, you better hope that baby don’t look like you, cause don’t nobody like no ugly, nappy headed child with skin as dark as yo’s, especially a girl.

Ms. Peggy was a very thin elderly black woman who had been working for General hospitals, jail ward section on the top floor, near downtown Los Angeles, for the last 20 years. If there was ever a such thing as self hatred, Ms. Peggy was the ideal person, who hated black people, and even herself.

Calvin was an old doctor, who had been working for General Hospital as long as Ms. Peggy, or longer. No one in the hospital addressed Calvin in a professional manner, by calling him, Dr. Calvin Fitzgerald, because he wouldn’t allow it.

Calvin was just as insensitive as Ms. Peggy was to most of the female prisoners, who were brought to the hospital from the Twin Towers County jail.

Although they were harsh, and cruel to most of the prisoners, who came there for various reasons, they were careful not to show their true colors with regular patients, that also frequented the hospital on the lower floors.

Tasha laid on the bed feeling like most of the incarcerated women who came through there, degraded, humiliated, and completely vulnerable. Calvin looked up at Tasha, and back down between her legs, like she wasn’t worthy of giving birth in that hospital, or by his hands, even though the County, and taxpayers footed the bill.

Tasha had been already informed about the ugly ways of the medical staff on the jail ward of General hospital, it was the same way, and even worse at the jail in the Twin Towers. Staff members of every occupation, treated the male, and female inmates cruelly and harsh, the medical staff, the bailiffs, the religious staff, and even the janitors, plumbers, and utilities workers, had some type of standing over the