Being Born in Prison

Author: I Was Born In Prison

Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 03.25.2012

Deborah Jiang Stein

Then something sinks in. My "real" mother's an addict and criminal. My "real" home is a prison. While I don't understand until decades later, the trauma of learning about my prison birth sent me into a deep dive, an emotional lockdown behind a wall which imprisoned me for almost twenty years.