by Jonathon Van Maren at Life Site News
An 8-week Family Communication Workshops program culminated in an emotional father-daughter ‘Parent Prom’ at one of America’s infamous prisons.
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center is one of America’s most infamous prisons. With a capacity of 3,000 and a prisoner population of 3,500, the facility contains many of California’s deadliest criminals and, not incidentally, is where the state holds its death row prisoners. Yet, recently, San Quentin held an unprecedented event: a father-daughter prom to connect incarcerated dads with their kids.
“In April, what was initially supposed to be a ‘Family Night’ turned into the first-ever Father-Daughter ‘Parent Prom’ held at San Quentin’s Rehabilitation Center’s chapel,” Aria Bell reported. “The event allowed fathers the chance to reconnect with or meet their daughters for the first time in a special way … This was made possible by Tram Nguyen, who has been incarcerated for 22 years and is one of the imprisoned members of The People in Blue, a prison reform advocacy collective.”
“I recognized that the majority of these people that came to prison, that committed crimes, also came from a dysfunctional home,” Tram Nguyen told KTVU. “A lot of the incarcerated people come from underserved communities, single-parent households.”
Nguyen is correct. In Pennsylvania in 2021,…
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