All of the prisoners at Virginia’s Richmond City Jail admit they made poor choices, and could be better fathers. “I am definitely failing as a parent right now, just by being out of her life,” Ronnell Glasgow said. A few examples: Julian Edwards is serving four years for drug distribution, Joey Atkins is awaiting trial for illegal gun possession, and Glasgow is serving seven years for selling drugs. Most of the men are in their 20s and 30s.
Gerald Ward is awaiting trial for guns and drug charges. He told us his daughter is only four. “But it’s amazing what she understands. She understand that Daddy did something wrong, ” he says. As these troubled men serve out their sentences, their children pay a price – often spending the most important years of their lives without active father figures.
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