What Life Is Like For Children Who Are Raised In Prison

What Happens When They Leave?

McDougall was able to stay with her son Max up until the day of her release. But she was nervous about life on the outside: “Because here we don’t have the choice really to do wrong. And out there, I have all the choices in the world. What do I want to eat today? Do I want to get high?” McDougall ended up moving in with her parents and landed a job. She said: “I just hope one day he can learn from my mistakes and not go down the road that I chose. I really just want him to be able to make better decisions than I did.”