Hooray for you! I, too am the waiting-wife of an inmate in a Pennsylvania prison. He was due for parole in November. However, this doesn't look like it will happen. The "problem" is my sixteen year-old daughter who adores my husband. She will have to move out of the house in order for his "home-plan" to be approved.

You guessed it! He is in for a sexual offense which his ex-wife decided to label him with. Now, after 5 years he is due to get out. He has an excellent record in prison, "a model inmate."

When he became eligible for parole and needed a home-plan and work-plan, we got them. The Parole Board's response was that they didn't want him to come back and start a life.

What is in the heads of these people, anyway? What better chance does a parolee have to get back into society than with a stable, loving, caring, normal family life? But they choose to shove ex-cons into neighborhoods far from their families, back into yet another controlled, dysfunctional environment.

It is hard enough on the women of men, having had to take on the full burden as head of household! I agree with you that there is no justice. You are assumed guilty before innocent, and that's just the families - God help the inmate or ex-con!