Coping with the incarceration of a loved one can be overwhelming and cause lasting health issues for wives on the outside. The Compassion Prison Project is trying to help them.
SALINAS VALLEY -- As she enters a world of secured gates, endless barbed wire and concrete as far as the eye can see, Adrienne Kennedy is reminded with every step of just how surreal her life has become. Kennedy's husband, Tom is an inmate atThey were introduced by a mutual friend while Tom was serving a 52-year sentence for an assault with a firearm on a police officer.
Coping with the incarceration of a loved one can be overwhelming. The stress of supporting a family member in prison can cause lasting health issues for those on the outside. , Horstman has been helping prisoners face the trauma that landed them behind bars. "I got to see the pain that they're facing every day, how much they have to drive, how stressful it is for them to walk into this environment," she said. has consistently shown that inmates are less like to return to prison, if they have close relationships with their families on the outside.
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