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one

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i want donuts yeah real

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better moving cal

how are you gonna take a history test on

my stomach full of sugar sean your brain

won't work right

you are an

addict

is my boss ready mom can't you wear your

white one today mom we all decided on

the phone we're all gonna wear pink me

jan cindy okay okay it was just a

suggestion um how would you like to wear

my earrings really sure

ah you can look in the mirror after

breakfast eat

lisa honey come on

lisa

and sean put down that honey

buy me peaches and cream barbie

oh honey you got a million dolls please

please please buy me get me give me buy

me buy me get me give me mommy

bye mom bye sweetie have fun at school

please

and you get an a on that history test

that's what mom

blt down

okay ladies here we go

hi

not too late for the usual emma well for

you what's that madonna concert tickets

tomorrow night

my ship's over at six i'll see you about

seven

i don't know

these are really expensive nah i want

them from radio

really mm-hmm

can't you see the callous on my dialing

finger

i don't know danny

my kids and

maybe you should ask another girl

i just asked the girl

you

and you're not gonna back out on me

again are you

so sean goes sliding into second base

and he's safe and he's so proud of him

good for him annie listen um

you're probably gonna think i'm crazy

but can you maybe do a favor for me

sure good

i can't deposit this until monday and

i'm gonna be running around all day

tomorrow and i don't want to carry it

with me

you maybe hang on to it for me

ah

danny this is our fortune i know i know

i would leave it at home but you know i

got that crazy roommate there's always

people there i don't know

you think i'm being paranoid well no

it's just you don't even know me that

well danny i i mean i could go off to

mexico or something

you're right

you're about the only person i can trust

i don't know kathy i don't think i

should go why i thought you kind of

liked him he's so cute

yeah he's cute

but i already promised the kids i'd take

him to the park tomorrow

so

we'll be back in plenty of time oh

here's the horoscopes

check this out

your lifestyle will undergo a major

change the first week of the month

how'd they know i quit smoking

what's mine say oh this is perfect

listen while doing for others don't

forget to take time out for yourself

this month

says it

yes

listen to your sister you've probably

gone out since you're divorced it's time

to have a life you know he's not asking

you to marry him

i don't know danny

my battery's been acting up but i don't

know if my car can go that far i'd pick

you up but i'm running a little behind

myself can you drive on over here and

just park your car in the garage and

we'll take my van on over the concert

okay okay oh oh listen i almost forgot

can you bring my money

ah i'll be happy to

i've been a nervous wreck since i've had

this

i'm on the phone just a minute table

first

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who wanted to go to the madonna concert

and we're unable to get tickets we'll

wipe away those tears because we got a

special madonna

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so

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all the way out of the car please up

against the car come on

spread your feet

danny

danny what is this i think my wire

slipped don't worry we got the whole

thing

danny

i think i got something

check it out

metric conversions and everything what

did i do what did i do you're under

arrest

this is a mistake

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thanks for bringing me the clothes i

didn't want the kids to see me like that

what are you gonna tell them nothing

listen annie uh

you don't want to take your chances with

some legal aid guy

i'm gonna call my buddy from work the

one who's brother's lawyer uh handles

lots of drug cases

okay

what happened

i'll handle this

hey okay

yeah

well i went out this morning to surprise

you guys with donuts for breakfast and

the car broke down again

and i i had to get towed and there

wasn't a phone around so

some surprise huh

you guys eating

why don't i make you some breakfast

the people will prove beyond a

reasonable doubt

that anne gallagher aided and abetted

daniel jenkins

and that she was in possession of four

ounces of cocaine with intention to

traffic and sell

this was a business

among the papers found in anne

gallagher's purse that night along with

the money

were calculations reducing pounds to

ounces and from ounces further down to

grams

daniel jenkins was a middle man

it was anne gallagher that was the drug

dealer

would you describe what took place on

the night in question

very briefly

i arranged for annie gallagher to sell

me four ounces of cocaine and for the

buyer um detective straight horse to

come to my house

what happened around eight o'clock and

he arrived in my driveway she drove into

my garage

and i immediately shut the garage door

down behind her from the house now could

you describe what took place when you

went into the garage i went inside and

annie was still in her car

she began to get out the driver's side

door and i came around and squatted down

beside her i asked her if she had the

cocaine what did she say she said yes

and she produced a clear plastic bag

with some white powder in it was there

anyone else present at the time no i

left the garage went into the house

and that's when i was arrested and

handcuffed did you say anything at that

time

yeah they asked me who was in the garage

i told them it was my dealer

thank you

no further questions your honor

is it not a fact that on the night of

your arrest detectives indicated to you

that you were being charged with

criminal sale and possession in the

first degree and

that you could go to jail for a minimum

of 15 years is that not correct

i believe something to that effect was

said yes

unless you cooperated

well it was like

if you help us

we'll help you something to that effect

now as part of your so-called

cooperation was one of the conditions

that you must testify against annie

gallagher at her trial

yes

my testifying is part of my cooperation

no further questions thank you very much

redirect

yes your honor mr jenkins have any

promises or commitments been made to you

in respect to your cooperation no sir uh

what did you hope would be the result of

your cooperation with the district

attorney's office and other law

enforcement agencies i hope to receive

a sentence of lifetime probation from

this court

we agreed to leave my car there

so i i pulled into the garage

and the doors closed behind me and i

started to get out of the car

and danny arrived and he said i have

somebody coming over and what else did

he say to you he said that he had people

coming to the house that he didn't want

me to meet and he said just sit tight

and i'll be out in a few minutes

and i said all right and then he started

to leave the garage and there are

shelves that are directly left of the

door and i saw him there and then he

left very quickly and that's the last i

saw of him and what happened then annie

and then the uh garage doors opened and

there was a man with the gun and he was

pointing it at my head and the money

that they found in your purse

he had given me some money

and i i guess it had some papers

attached to it and he wanted me to hold

them for him

because he didn't want his roommates to

know that he had any money on him

thank you miss gallagher

you testified that you don't use drugs

is that correct yes that's correct

have you ever used cocaine

no i have not and your testimony is

that you saw no cocaine

on the night in question i had nothing

to do with that

nothing

i don't think you understand counselor

your client is charged with the sale of

four or more ounces of cocaine we're

automatically talking three a1 felonies

here that's a minimum of 15 years you

don't need to instruct me in the law

then explain to me how you can reject a

generous plea bargain of one to three

years cause i'm innocent

we've been telling you for months i'm

not guilty

my offer still stands

i don't get this

i don't get it danny jenkins is the drug

dealer how come he's not on trial and

he's getting off on probation for

testimony

now do you understand what he's saying

cause we've been through this before if

the jury finds you guilty you will get a

minimum of 15 years

but you don't think i should take the

plea bargain

marty what am i going to do with my kids

if i go to jail

you think i should take the deal

they've made a serious case against you

it all depends on whether the jury

believes you or danny

well i can't do it

i can't say i'm guilty when i'm innocent

but i don't want to stay home today's

tryout to the school play honey i tried

to get a babysitter and i couldn't

somebody's got to stay with lisa then

why don't you take off work you're

always telling me to do good in school

so how come you're making me give up

everything just because that's enough

it's not fair and you don't even care

honey

i think this is all gonna be over soon

i i mean pretty soon i'll be able to

take days off

but i can't right now

believe me i want to

honey go away

and career going into aquarius so the

air signs are going to be highly

effective

kelly

honey i'll be back as soon as i can

so maybe there'll be a verdict today

i hate lying to my kids kathy

i swore i'd never lie to my kids even

with a divorce i told him the truth

they're just kids how can they

understand

i don't even understand

has the jury reached a verdict we have

your honor

will the defendant please rise and face

the jury

miss foreman what is the verdict

with regard to all three counts of

criminal possession and sale of a

controlled substance

we find the defendant guilty oh your

honor

i'm not a cocaine dealer

you're destroying my life i am not

destroying your life we have a legal

system your attorney gave you very fine

representation and the jury has rented a

verdict this is my life i have three

children

i swear to you i am not a cocaine dealer

i have no choice

the uh defendant will be remanded to

county jail pending sentencing next

tuesday 10 a.m party what is adjourned

kathy let's go kathy please don't tell

my children

don't tell them

what am i gonna tell them annie just

tell them i had to go away somewhere

we'll appeal or get out soon

well

uncle pat's real sick and

your mom had to go down to florida right

away to help take care of him

who's uncle pat

well you remember he was at my wedding

you know aunt rosa's husband

grandma's brother he's real old remember

but how come mom didn't wait to say

goodbye or anything

well

she mr plain you know she'd waited for

you to get out of school you know she

had to get there right away but she'll

be back you know as soon as she can

i uh

better get to work

i want my mommy i want my mommy

i know honey

so

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okay

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white

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gallagher

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marino

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next

so

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do

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why don't we have to do this we'll be

okay upstairs i promise

i mean mom's doing that so it's a big

deal as long as i'm responsible for you

guys i want you under my roof where i

can keep an eye on you

come on let's go

come on it's called walking girls let's

move it

hey hold it don't advance until i tell

you

okay

move ahead follow the line

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now

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hey don't move your butt i'll get to you

in a minute you better give me my

letters i ain't playing with you hey

that's totally fine i'm just checking

burger okay hand it back willie before i

get no you give me my letters first the

letters for my son willie give it to me

i wait every damn day and i don't get

nothing i'm expecting letters to

important letters and you your minimum

wage working you keeping them from

me watch your language you just got

yourself another chart sheet you don't

scare me with your dumb ass charred

sheets i got rights too

all right fun's over her fun's over

that's assaulting an officer

damn officers sought an office all y'all

will know it yeah all right

you doing solitary again yeah you

putting me in solitary for the rest of

my life y'all just bring me my letters

one minute to lock up let's get the hell

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pick it up

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so

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okay kids i remember be quiet when you

get up in the morning uncle mike needs

to sleep

and kathy

yeah i think we left the nightlight

upstairs

oh come on

lisa doesn't need a nightlight anymore

you're a big girl now huh

sweet dreams

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it'll be okay lisa

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lights out

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stupid old broad forgot to lock up the

pantry look what i got get in here

pass on my food she gets here thank you

willy

you you don't get nothing to see you

ain't worked up no seniority yet

you want it

yeah

you think you can spare it

we'll go ahead and take it

what's going on here nothing

i uh it was my fault i'll clean it up

you're not starting off on my good side

the rest of you can go now

i'm watching you

watching you

listen i'm working on your appeal but

your conviction came with a mandatory

sentence of 15 years to life so it's

gonna take time i am trying to get out

do you hear me i am trying to get you

out when look it's not the kind of thing

that happens overnight first you've got

to file the appeal and then it'll how

long am i going to have to be here marty

tell me

i'm working as fast as i can

what about my kids what's gonna happen

to my kids look i know it's hard but you

just gotta hang in there hang in there

i'm not even supposed to be here i never

should have been convicted

there are women in here for murder who

have shorter sentences than me it's not

fair i know i think danny jenkins has

any kids any responsibilities

he's the one that ought to be in prison

and he's running around scot-free

but uncle pat's still real sick and

yeah it looks like i'm gonna have to

stay here a little longer than i thought

how's school honey

i i know i i know

but uncle pat's down here all by himself

since that rose passed away and

we're the only family he has uh-huh

okay

i miss you too honey

can you put kelly on time's up

hello

hello i wasn't finished i'm sorry i

don't make the rules

mom

i think we got disconnected what should

i do should i call her back no no just

hang up

she'll call back

uncle pat must have been waiting for an

important call from the doctors

she'll call back later

it's the last one what are you taking

that's okay you can have it i usually

have a soda anyways

why don't you take the milk it's a lot

better for the baby i know i have three

kids

thanks

that's nice of you

my name's annie i seen you the day you

came

my name's yolanda but everybody calls me

yo-yo

hey

these are the good ones i'm gonna take

them when they got them

in case you get hungry later

thanks

okay

oh sorry oh man the quaker lady she's

never in the cafeteria

she runs the children's center and helps

us with our ninos comprende

so teresa i need your help with nikki

you're the only one that should listen

to

that poor kid she hardly even knows her

mother so i just left

it was five years ago no child support

no nothing

my boyfriend came at me with a knife

i had to protect my baby

i told my lawyer and he says i got to

plead guilty for manslaughter unless i

want to spend the rest of my life in

jail

now i think maybe i should have said

self-defense because that's what it was

and here i am in jail anyways

it's just for a little while longer

until she gets out until she gets out

that could be 15 years will you keep it

down they might hear you yeah well

they're gonna find out sometime they're

too young to understand i promised annie

i wouldn't tell yeah well i didn't

promise mike mike please honey

listen

you heard what her lawyer said he's

gonna get her out she'll be out soon and

then i know we're gonna go back to the

panel

hey i was watching that me too

something happened to mom something bad

i don't think she's coming home

get out of here no i mean

and kathy and uncle mike are like having

a major fight about it no way fine sean

you don't think it's a little weird that

mom suddenly flies down to florida i

mean without even telling us first

i mean

she like leaves her job and everything

does that sound like mom to you

uncle pat got sick again

she didn't get a chance to tell us so

what

what are you saying

mom's a liar mom wouldn't lie to us she

gets really mad if we ever lie

maybe mom would lie if something really

bad happened she didn't want us to know

cause

maybe we get too upset or something

who are you calling

uncle pat and then you can talk to mom

and find out what an idiot you are fine

hi uncle pat

this is sean gallagher

how are you feeling

really that's great

listen could i

sean gallagher annie son

annie what

isn't she with you

sean

gallagher

you're talking to

uncle path

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all visitors will remain at the table

visitors must sit down at the table

i don't get it

he gave me some money to hold for him

for a few days and then when they

they found this money on me they thought

i was selling drugs

but

you weren't didn't he tell them

didn't he tell them what happened

no honey he told him that i was his

partner and that i was selling drugs too

but he lied

didn't you tell him he was lying

yes i did i told him over and over

he didn't believe me

i'm sorry

i know this must be awful for you

and i'm sorry i didn't tell you the

truth right away

i knew you'd be upset and and i didn't

think i'd have to go to jail

and

then i don't know i guess

then i just didn't know how to tell

and i'm sorry i made and kathy and uncle

mike lie too

i promise you i'll never do that again

can you come home now mommy

not right away honey but my lawyer says

real soon

excuse me

i don't mean to bother you but i thought

that you and the children might be more

comfortable visiting in the children's

center it's a little easier

annie who was that woman

it's francis they call her the quaker

lady without her there wouldn't be a

children's center

mommy are we gonna get her apartment

back when you come home

what do you mean honey

oh well we had to let the landlord rent

your apartment you know we can't afford

both rents you let my apartment go well

i was gonna tell you i figured you had

enough problems right now

i can't believe you did that

you didn't even ask me if it was okay oh

what i i'm not doing enough for you as

it is i'm gonna take your kids into my

house you know i ruined my life and i

got to ask you permission every time i

want to blow my nose

wait a minute listen annie i'm not the

one who got you into this miss where the

hell would you be without me and mike to

help you out

i'm sorry kathy it's just it's really

hard when when i don't have any say in

anything well you want to be in charge

fine hannah you're in charge what's the

plan huh what are we supposed to do

okay listen annie things have changed

you know you're just gonna have to let

me figure things out by myself i'm

afraid that visitors hours are over for

today okay mommy let's go home now oh

god

um honey you got to say goodbye to mommy

now no

i want you to come home now mommy please

i can't right now honey i promise i'll

be a good girl from now on mommy oh

sweetheart

you're the best little girl in the world

you didn't do anything wrong

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i love you i'll call you

i love you

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dear mom merry christmas

mom

we all hope to see you on sunday and do

you

know what i got for christmas

i got a kite and a toy car

and also have you been reading the bible

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yes

excuse me

annie this is my new friend tori would

you read a book with her until her mama

and grandma finish talking

sure

story

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let's see what kind of books do you like

ah how about this one

this one is my daughter's favorite

i bet i know this one almost by heart

right now

go

once upon a time

long long ago

in the deep deep forest

next week we're going to have to really

work on your interaction

brendan kristen it's time visiting hours

are over say bye to your moms

uh francis i don't know where these

games in this puzzle go that's okay i

got it

i really appreciate your help today

you know something must have happened i

maybe one of my kids got the flu there's

probably a lot of that going around at

school i noticed the kids really seem to

like you

now for a second they almost forgot

where i was

how would you like to sign up to work in

the children's center we can use all the

help we can get

oh i don't know

beach kitchen duty well i don't think i

can

my attorney says that my appeal's gonna

be coming through and i'm gonna be going

home pretty soon

yeah me too

it's just being around other people's

kids it's hard you know

if you change your mind just let me know

good luck to you

thanks

yeah well it's a four-hour drive round

trip the car's starting to act up

mike says we gotta get a new carburetor

it's gonna cost a lot of money

sorry kathleen

i haven't seen him in a couple of weeks

i know i know but

today was my only day to do laundry you

know i'm

doing laundry for five now you know yeah

i know i know i so will you bring them

next weekend

i'll try

you know i gotta

i gotta see what's what i'm doing the

best i can

look at annie uh i know they make a call

collect but

mike's gonna divorce me if i get another

phone bill like last month

you and the kids you got to start

writing letters more or something you

know i'm gonna pay you back every penny

look let's not get into that now you

know we already had to borrow money to

pay the damn lawyer

annie i i got something on the stove

i gotta go

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i was on my way out to work and i get a

call from school

they're gonna dock me two hours pay now

you're grounded buddy you understand me

you are grounded for a month a month

i told you it wasn't even my fault the

other kid started it you okay hey hey

hey what what do you got to baby him for

huh if i say he's grounded hey let me

ground down that's the end of it

go to hell you're not my father who you

think you're talking to you little punk

huh you're lucky you're having some

foster home shelter what's something hey

you know i've had it with all of you

it's it's like it's not even my housing

i'm like

oh

don't leave

mommy

mike

please don't go mike come back here

here you're satisfied to see what you've

done

i'm sorry aunt cathy just get out of

here get out of my face

oh you just leave me alone

come on kale

what's the matter you fall in go away

don't be such a hog

other people need to use a bathroom once

in a while

and kathy

and kathy can i come in

what is it

cassie can i talk to you this isn't a

good time cal

kathy

what what is it

i

think i got my period i

was wondering if you got anything oh

yeah

look under the sink in the bathroom

i did

oh

okay

here

i think the market's still open

i'm gonna run out and pick up a box okay

go ahead just get whatever's cheapest

and be careful crossing the street

kelly

would you bring back a quart of milk too

outside of the can to get it open maybe

this jelly stuff it's real lumpy get rid

of it that's right

brown sugar and honey on the top of the

ham

he's kicking again you want to feel

he's just dying to get out

i know how he feels that's right you put

a clove inside each one of the little

squares now she hasn't been on the phone

more than five minutes how do you know

you're getting a watch that's fine you

tell eddie you can have a candlestick

pineapple ring okay 45 minutes i love

you

hey it's my turn well i'm telling you

great all right i've been in line longer

than you give me the phone give me your

mom who the hell you think you messing

with i got 15 to lie for 3a1 felonies

who do you think you're messing with

excuse me

she got three a1 felonies y'all

kids i better watch my ass

yeah collect from anna gallagher

marty deluca

and don't tell me he's not at his desk

i've been calling every day for two

weeks

look you just tell him i'm not gonna

take this run around do you hear me

you hear me

fine

marty

buddy what's happening with my appeal we

were supposed to hear on the 15th

what does that mean

i lost

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oh my baby

i gotta go to the hospital

please

help me my baby's coming now i gotta go

to the hospital

her baby's coming she's supposed to be

sent to the hospital some help get out

of there gallagher you ain't no baby

doctor just leave your hands here

fernandez your baby ain't coming yet yes

it is i know what my baby's coming i

gotta go to the hospital now you ain't

going nowhere your baby ain't due for

another two weeks i got it on my chart

lights out gallop and lights out

everywhere

she says our baby's coming it's coming

all right one more word

just call the doctor and get her to the

hospital you stupid jerk johnny did get

out of there i'm right now

go

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oh

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so

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honey

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yo-yo had a baby girl this morning

she's okay

they're both doing fine

i thought you might want to talk but

you don't have to

there's a lot of

women in your situation annie

i think i have some idea of what you're

going through

no you don't

i'm not like these other women i don't

belong here nobody thinks they belong

here annie

you have an id

you're in a cell

that makes you just like everyone else

in the 15 years i've been coming here

i've seen two kinds of women

the kind that allows herself to be

defeated by this place and the kind that

doesn't

you're gonna have to decide which kind

you're going to be

please

you gotta help me

i'm not gonna make it

i'm not

i'm gonna go home i gotta go

go home not my kids

oh my god

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please please you gotta help

i know you don't wanna hear this annie

you're gonna have to help yourself

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oh

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i got my work assignment changed

good

it looks like you've had a successful

first day

yeah

sure beats a cell block person can go

crazy in there sometimes i think they

want you to go crazy you know

if you feel useless you'll give up hope

ah look at this

okay just the person for this

i mean he was acting like a dude

look who we got here

miss a one felony

what you got there

it's a toy for one of the babies i gotta

pass

wait i gotta check the contraband

oh she's gorgeous

pearl baby

say hi to your dia annie

hi pearl

i name her after my mother

she's dead a long time

i wish she could have seen her you know

do you want to hold her

yes

i got her

so you always have to support their

health

you got to come see me

i don't want to mess up

nobody helps us you know

of course i will

mothers are lucky here annie

we get to keep them for a year

but i gotta do right

so she'll remember i'm her mother

they'd never forget their mothers

they never forget

there's my girls hi

oh

where's sean

she felt sick this morning

kath

if shawn still has the flu maybe you

should see a doctor you want to stay

home watch the playoffs what am i going

to do i can't force the kid if you just

want to come

look at you look how big you are

let me fix your breath okay

sean's okay mom

thanks girl

how about you how are you doing fine

how's school how are your grades

you are so pretty

any boys you like

how about it lisa is your sister going

on any dates

i don't know

mom

honey i'm sorry i didn't mean to

embarrass you i just

i miss the way we used to talk about

everything

i want to know what's going on in your

life

i want you to know that you can come to

me about anything i'm sure mom i know

cal

can i take your sister and play for a

sec i got to talk to your mom

there's some stuff i got to tell you

and i didn't know how to put it in a

ladder

mike and me are splitting up

why

why not

it's only been the worst year of

everyone's life

he's

he's seen somebody else

oh god kathy i'm sorry yeah well i just

wanted you to know um i don't know

what's gonna happen but

i'm keeping the kids with me

it's because of my kids isn't it

i never wanted kids annie look

you're the one sitting up here with all

the time on your hands you know so you

figure out the how and the why and then

you tell me because i don't even have

time to hear myself think anymore i'm

just

i'm just telling you okay

kev i want you to know how grateful i am

for everything

what am i gonna do put your kids out on

the street then i'd really be able to

live with

myself mommy

mommy mommy can i buy a soda

yeah sure

you let her call you mommy

1284 women in this hell hole and usually

i'm the only one here

i lost my appeal

i wanted to look up some of this legal

stuff it's kind of hard to understand

you're the white girl with the 3a1

felonies

that's right

i keep track of what people are in for

kind of a special interest of mine

you'd be surprised how many women do

more time than they have to seems nobody

told them they could read these books

for themselves

you think i'm doing too much time

i'm going for my second appeal and

basically i was framed first of all

everybody says they were fraying second

ain't no judge interested in admitting

that any d.a messed up fighting the war

on drugs that's a holy war don't you

know so you can forget about that second

appeal

well thanks for the free advice

i just saw my seven-year-old daughter

call my sister mommy so if it's all the

same to you i think i'll go for the

appeal

it's your time if you want to waste it

but what you should be going for is

clemency

i can do that

i i thought you had to go through this

whole appeals process hey you got to do

what your lawyer says i mean he's a

white man in a suit probably charging

you a hundred dollars an hour i'm just

some uneducated black

what would i know

see the beauty of clemency is that they

never have to admit that they were wrong

to try you in the first place or give

you a new trial and be forced to admit

that you were innocent from the word go

see clemency saves a lot of faith

because instead of saying they were

wrong they can say they're being

generous

by releasing you guilty or not

but in order to get clemency you need to

prove certain extenuating circumstances

for example you're doing time for being

in the garage while the drug deal was

going on inside even though that white

boy who actually sold the coke to the

cops

only got probation

see

two people

who are considered guilty cannot be

punished so differently for the same

crime

sean can sleep on the sofa bed

and the three of us will share the

bedroom

don't look at me like that it's all i

can afford

you think i like this you think i want

to live like this

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and sometimes

uncomfortable

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so

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hey you're looking good look i just want

you to read this over before i filed a

second appeal we're on to the next step

i thought i was going to be out in a few

months

it's almost a year now

annie you can't hold me responsible for

oh no i hold myself responsible

i walked into 15 years to life because i

was too naive to understand the whole

system is built on plea bargains i could

have had one to three and you knew that

yeah like i like i knew i couldn't get

out if i was appealing an a1 felony i

mean i heard it

but i didn't think it had anything to do

with me

i mean i wasn't gonna get convicted

all i knew is that innocent people

always got off in the movies

i kept believing that's what was gonna

happen in real life come on annie sit

down

i'm gonna handle my own case marty

annie you're making a big mistake

i don't have any more time to waste

my kids are out there without a mother

where the hell is shawn how the hell

should i know hey watch your mouth

hey guys

see you when i get back i made you

grilled cheese

oh i mean i'm sorry i don't have time

they kept me forever at the office i'm

late to the store again i'm gonna lose

my cashier job

how was school i hate it everybody

already knows everybody

i know

give it time you make friends

what's up

walk up behind me

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milk

hello

hi mrs hanson

no

my mom's not here right now

i told her you called

okay i'll write down

pta pancake breakfast saturday at 10.

right volunteer five five five

six four three seven

yeah i'm writing it down bye

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now what about those letters of support

your priests your kids teachers

anyone who'll tell the governor what a

saint you are how you've been a credit

to the community most of those people

don't even know i'm in jail charisse

i gotta have them write letters only if

you wanna get out

and here's the fun part they want an

essay from you oh what do i have to say

tell them what they wanna hear

how being in prison has changed you set

you on the straight and narrow

they want to hear about all the valuable

lessons you've learned

all the valuable lessons i've learned

well

i've learned how to pick locks

evelyn told me how to do that

uh i know the best way to forge a check

without getting caught where to hide

contraband right cheney taught me how to

do cornrows

here's another very valuable lesson i

learned in prison

how to fill out a clemency petition

you know what

if i get out of here

i'm gonna do things a lot differently

you did what you thought was right at

the time

maybe

i got myself into this mess

all i know is i can't go back to

thinking the way i used to think

all my life i've been a good girl you

know i trusted people i expected people

to do the right thing

my husband

danny jenkins

one thing for sure

if i get out of here

i'm not gonna let other people tell me

what to do

when you get up

when i get out of here

i'm gonna do a lot more for my kids

i get a better job

i'm gonna go back to school

girl you'll be lucky to get back to

where you were before you came here

annie

i'd like to talk to you we had a call

from your sister

what

what is it it's kelly she's in the

hospital but but she's gonna be okay

what happened

stomach

internal bleeding

she swallowed a bottle of aspirin

but your son found her in time

she's gonna be okay

kelly

it's all right i'll take care of it

she just got some bad news that's all

i heard about your girl

she gonna be all right

never let you do anything like this

i i keep thinking i should have seen it

like here she says now she's making

dinner every night and

she's a big girl

thought i shouldn't worry about her and

i read that and i think

wow she's doing great

because that's what i needed to believe

that's what i wanted

you know i started thinking what that

must have been like for her

now

how that must have felt

now maybe she wanted me to worry about

her

seems like to me you find out all kind

of reasons in them letters if you study

them hard enough

cause that's all you got to try to make

sense of it is some lettuce

and you know you're gonna keep trying to

make sense of it

got me a daughter

that's roxanne

she 12 in that picture

foster care

they ain't brought her to see me in

three years i don't know where she is

and the social worker she damn show

ain't no help you know what i'm saying

so i'm afraid it's gonna happen to kelly

i'll just

let's lose track of her

i'm gonna be your mother two hours every

other weekend

so is that huh

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thanks

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well you ain't no new girl no more

you know what it's about

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here you go

you're gonna be with these nice

dominican people in my old neighborhood

and they even catholic which i asked for

is special

and all my friends can come see you

so you're gonna be okay

wait a minute the foster parents are

waiting

i know

i just don't want you to forget her

stuff

this is her favorite

see

got fuzzy bunny

he want to go with you too see

you're gonna be okay pearl

damn

yo-yo she'll be fine you don't gotta

baby me

just leave me alone i ain't your little

girl

you wanna play mommy

you do it with these kids here

i'm sorry i'm late

bless you all for coming

we're worried about our kids

the kids of the women incarcerated here

we know they're good kids but we've been

told by the experts they have a ten

times greater chance of ending up in

prison than kids whose mothers are at

home with them

and to be honest you're the ones paying

for all those new prisons

so it's your problem as much as it is

ours

we want to keep the mothers here from

losing touch with their kids

believe me no matter what they're in

here for nobody loves their kids more

and there's nobody a kid needs more than

mom

and with your help we want to start a

program for the kids this summer

we'll bring them up for the entire week

and they'll spend every single day with

their mothers just like a real family

but we will need places for them to stay

we have no money

so we are asking for families in the

area to volunteer to put up a kid for a

week

annie

could you come up front please

i wonder what she's in here

uh i'm annie gallagher and i'm

representing the women here tonight

and to answer any questions how many of

you are mothers about 80 that's the

national average which means there are

about 400 000 kids affected by their

mother's incarceration and most of us

are single mothers unlike men when they

go to jail they usually have a wife or a

girlfriend to help keep the family

together

but the kids in foster care

they only get taken maybe once a year to

see their mothers so so we thought with

this summer program we could make it

easier to get mothers and kids and

excuse me yes

i'm not convinced it should be easier to

bring children here

and i don't know why i'm being asked to

feel sorry for these women

i didn't put them in jail you had

yourselves locked up by breaking the law

okay but 90 of us are in here for

non-violent crimes

we made mistakes

but we still love our kids and we're

still capable of helping them damn

straight

maybe the best thing you could do for

your kids is to just stay out of their

lives come on honey no no i think it's a

valid question

i i'm not convinced that a kid ought to

be hanging around a prison anyway you

know maybe you should just let them

alone and do your time but they're doing

my time that's the point

it's my kids who are being punished

look

look at these letters on the wall from

our kids

you want me to leave my kids alone

mister

you have no idea how alone they are

my daughter kelly she's she's 14 and

she's and she's shy

by the time i i get to talk to her i

mean really talk to her

it's time to go

and i know she needs to be with her

mother more

she swallowed a bottle of pills after i

came here

and shawn he used to be really good in

school

he he's 12 and and now he gets in

trouble all the time so far i haven't

even been able to get him up here and i

need to find out what's going on with

him

and lisa my little one

she can't just come and sit in the

visitor's chair we have to be able to do

things together

my kids were fine before i came here and

now i'm really afraid

if you don't care about us i can accept

that

let me ask you a

question what crime did our kids commit

that nobody should care about them

we need

a commitment from at least 20 host

families as part of the proposal we're

submitting to the state

you signed the clemency petition right

right and my letter to the governor

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still raining out cats and dogs

hi mr riley

let's celebrate

after all that red tape they finally

gave in

we have got our summer program oh wow

if we can just figure out how to get the

kids up here and find places for them to

stay

real pepperoni francis you are something

i cannot believe that i'm gonna get to

see my kids for a whole week

girl there's all kinds of prisons

y'all shut the hell up the whole world

ain't interested in your damn

conversation

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see

i don't like writing stuff i like to use

the phone

don't think of it as writing

think of it like you're just talking to

roxanne and then you're copying it down

read me what you have so far

dear roxanne

how are you roxy

i've been thinking about you every day

cause i miss you so much

i know

i know i ain't wrote

see

see

it's not all messed up it don't even

sound right it sounds like a mother

telling her daughter she loves her

it's fine

do you want me to copy it over for you

no

i want her to know i wrote it myself

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maybe you can look at it later see if i

misspelled something by mistake see

cause this pen ain't working my hand is

hurting

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i know i ain't wrote you cause social

workers say she lost your address to the

new foster home but my friend annie

she helped me to find you and now i know

where you at baby

and i want you to come and see me

because it hurts me that we haven't seen

each other for so long

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all you have to do now is write down the

summer program information put a stamp

on it

she's gonna be so happy to hear from you

hey guys

do me

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oh honey that's great i can't wait to

see you

what about sean he's coming right i

don't know

did you ask him

and if it's about little league i can

have aunt cathy call the coach

mom shawn's not a little league anymore

since when

what happened i don't know you quit a

long time ago

kelly

kelly i really want shawn to come too so

so ask him will you please just ask him

kelly are you there

asking yourself mom

john

shawn honey

sean

john honey please please come

i really want to see you please

i love you

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all right

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officer wilson couldn't i just vouch for

the boy he's come such a long way come

on you know i can't do that i got a

family to feed and you're asking me to

get fired reginald your mama really

wants to see you are you sure you didn't

bring some kind of id

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there's my pearl

come to mama baby

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we had a little problem with reginald

but i think it can be worked out by

tomorrow he

lost his id

they ain't gonna let him in

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wait

oh god i missed you guys

you're just gonna stay in this room all

week

gross

we're gonna do a lot of stuff

sean hey

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i'm really glad you came

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must have been awful for you

not really

were you scared

i wasn't really anything

i guess i just felt empty

kind

i remember it was tuesday march the 3rd

it was 10 minutes after 9 when frances

came and told me you were in the

hospital

and i prayed

i prayed for you all night

i love you so much honey

and you don't deserve

everything that's happened to you

but you have to promise me that you'll

never ever hurt yourself again

your life is so precious huh

it's so hard sometimes

i want it to be like before

i don't honey

i know

just let it out

go ahead and cry

okay

she just missed the first couple of days

that's all

she'll be

hey

ain't my kids something

come on lisa you gotta count

uncle mike called aunt kathy and they

talked on the phone for like hours

really what's going on with them and

kathy won't say come on your turn

how could you be so stupid

how the hell could you not know the guy

was a drug dealer

want to know the truth sean

the truth is i don't know

i don't know how i could have been so

stupid i've thought about it as much as

you have

john

that's ball that's ball and you know it

sean

it's like we come all the way out here

like it's supposed to change something

but it doesn't change anything mom

you're still gonna be here and

everything's still gonna suck

sean come back here i'm talking to you

so what what are you going to do punish

me

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hey listen to me

listen to me i'm doing everything i can

to get out of here

i'm having everybody i know write

letters to the governor

i don't want to be here

i want to be with you

but i have to be able to count on you to

keep our family together until i get out

of here

right

and how the hell am i supposed to do

that

well you could start by not making it

worse

oh honey

i'm

sorry everybody remember your lunch

juice will be on the bus

i love you guys you know

well i don't get to tell you all the

time so i have to tell you extra when

you come to visit me

write to me okay

maybe it'll be a little easier now that

we got caught up

postcard even i'm not i'm not picky

i just want to know how it's going

and you don't have to cheer me up all

the time i don't know what's really

going on

here mom

annie here you go

you see roxanne i mean they told me to

come down here they tell me she's here

really that's great yeah but i don't see

her nowhere i just been walking around

here

annie you got to help me look i'm too

worked up i can't even think straight

okay okay now i i remember her picture

but

she'd be bigger now wouldn't she

yeah you're

i right be looking for a big girl

oh her hair probably different you know

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roxy

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what are you doing with yourself

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have you been doing

you guys take care of each other okay

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wait let me read you this one

this is one of my favorites

dear mr government

i'm riding you because my mommy doesn't

belong in jail

cause when i was young

my mommy went to her friend's house

and police got her because he said she

was selling drugs with him when she

wasn't

so she got in jail we love her and she

doesn't belong there please mr

government please please get her out

soon

love her daughter lisa

dear mr government i know

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what's wrong with yo-yo what's the

matter her daughter got killed this

morning foster care some kind of car

accidents

let's go to the infirmary okay please

just let me go in there

go ahead maybe she'll listen to you

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back in yourself

move

oh

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you said yo-yo was worried about what

her baby was going to be buried in

are they going to let her go to the

funeral

and chains

but they're going to let her go

oh that's beautiful

you okay

yeah the hearing's tomorrow isn't it

you ready

ready as i'll ever be

wouldn't hurt to pray for me though

what i'm trying to say is

no matter what anybody says i did

when you punish me

you punish my kids even more

and they didn't do anything to deserve

that

ms gallagher do you understand that if

this board should decide to recommend

you for clemency you will in no way be

exonerated for the crimes for which you

were sentenced

i know nobody cares whether i'm innocent

or not

but i've already been here more than

three years

and that's longer than i would have had

to serve if i'd accepted the plea of one

to three that the dea offered me at the

trial

and instead of one to three i'm doing 15

to life it's like

it's like i'm being punished because i i

demanded my constitutional right to a

trial

if they were willing to offer me one to

three then

why not now

i just

i just want to go home to my kids

please

i know we're all bummed because the kids

got snowed out but i got presents so

listen up everybody you first missed

francis

cookie you shouldn't have i got you a

new car i seen that piece of junk you've

been driving

annie

i figured you wanted to be with your

kids so bad what you needed was

one of them family getaways

how you get them down to floyd is your

problem

i can't believe this is the fourth

christmas without my kids still no word

from the governor

okay who's having eggnog

maybe francis tried to spike it i caught

her just in time

no fair peeking

what have you guys been up to

you can open your eyes now

merry christmas

i can't believe you guys did all this

kelly made the turkey and i stuffed it

and i mashed the potatoes

it looks wonderful

and we're all gonna clean up the kitchen

so you don't have to do a thing

gosh

oh i'm so sorry we can get up to see

your mom today we're gonna save the lake

in the freezer for when she gets her

clancy

and some mashed potatoes too

it's clemency lisa

you know this is

the best christmas present i've ever had

really

i don't tell you guys very often

how much you've meant to me

i really love you

well

dig in

merry christmas

where's your id

get a life jackie

happy new year

it's from the governor

well none of this would be happening if

it wasn't for you

doesn't seem fair no such thing as fair

i thought i told you that

will you call my cousin

tell her to write to me

i'll call don't worry

you're gonna be okay

i'm so used to walking in here and

seeing your face i don't know what i'm

gonna do

you saved my life you know

you and the kids

you did it daddy

i'm so proud of you

i've been

dreaming about this day for so long i

don't know why i'm so nervous

it'll be fun

you got 40 no place to live a prison

record and three kids i hardly know

you're welcome to stay

no thanks

well so long girl

you know i always figured you'd get out

of here before i did

well if you just stay out of trouble

you'd be out in no time

well you know what you're gonna miss me

gallagher

because i'm gonna hunt your dreams

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so

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come on

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you