Author Geraldine Godfrey has varied background of skills, experience and interest. She grew up in the segregated south in North west Louisiana. She has always been quite opinonated and could speak very well even as an adolescent. As a filsegregated Southth grader she was responsible for her family dinally moving into a realhouse. Geraldine Murrell-Godfrey is a Southern University Baton Rouge Graduate who is newly retired and working as a freelance Author. She was a Prison Religious Volunteer for years before her son’s incarceration.  Her book shows what happens to a mother when her own becomes a ward of the criminal justice system