Article: Adjusting to home: the effects of a mother's incarceration last well beyond her release date.(Family Profiles)(Sharee Williams, Brittany Brown)

Brittany Brown didn't want to wake up on the morning of May 28, 1999. Sharee Williams, her mother, had told her many times that she was going to prison, but Brittany says now that she was too young to understand. Eventually, Williams roused the 10-year-old, walked her to the Joseph Warren School in the Southeast Side's Calmnet Heights neighborhood and told her that she would not be back to pick her up after school.

After dropping her daughter off, Williams said a tearful goodbye to her son, who was not yet two months old, and reported to the Federal Correction Institution in Pekin, Ill.

She would not be back for nearly seven years.

Although the ...

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