What do you hope to do upon release?
“My plan is to go back to school and get my degree in psychology specializing in substance abuse. I plan on getting a job, work study perhaps, and working my way through school until I receive my doctorate degree. I am going home to my husband and loving family who have been there for me supporting me 100% this whole journey.
I have been enrolled in Victory Bible Institute for my entire stay and am a straight A student. I have a passion for the Lord and live to serve Him for the remainder of my days. My plans in life will always be subject to His will for me. I want only to walk the path He has laid out for me and want to finish my studies at Bible College becoming a minister so that I may one day take my degree and go into prison ministries. I hope to be a light to others and lead those who are lost as I once was into the loving arms of the Lord so that they too may experience the freedom and joy His love and forgiveness brings.”
These photographs represent inmates from two corrections facilities in Washington State. In these photographs the subjects were offered the opportunity to select civilian clothing. Many of the volunteers in this series wrote a paragraph or two about their intentions upon release. Church, family and remaining drug-free were the overarching themes found in almost all of their goals. Each were given prints to keep or give to family, or for use in search of a job. The donated clothes are put to good use, given to the soon to be homeless and needier inmates upon their release. #prison #women #portrait #incarceration #Washington #Corrections
