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Mar 13 • Bridget Young
This Is a Pre-Paid Call
about the parole board update
Apr 17 • Bridget Young
I Refuse to Wear a Cross
How being the mother of a prisoner has changed me
Apr 3 • Bridget Young
Reading Tolstoy With Friends
A Misfit Lit Zoom Call (and a Russian Tea Cake recipe)
Mar 27 • Bridget Young
No Longer Anonymous
And others acts of acceptance
Mar 20 • Bridget Young
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Confession #9: My son is guilty.
Mar 21, 2025 • Bridget Young
Confession #20: Not Guilty Does Not Mean Innocent
Oct 3, 2025 • Bridget Young
I Refuse to Wear a Cross
Apr 3 • Bridget Young
Why Is He In Trouble?
Jan 24, 2025 • Bridget Young

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White Bears are Everywhere
How drugs really get into prisons.
Mar 6 • Bridget Young
An Interview with Bridget
A quick chat about things that get us through
Feb 24 • Bridget Young and Bridget Belden
24:17
American Corrections cost you $270 billion last year
Here are your tax forms.
Feb 20 • Bridget Young
The Halfway Point
A Resurrection Check In
Feb 13 • Bridget Young
I Hope You Learned Your Lesson
The Parole Board Hunger Games
Feb 6 • Bridget Young

Mom to Mom

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Happy Birthday, Outlaw
The time I named a criminal
Jan 23 • Bridget Young
The Shepherds Keeping Watch
A messy, thankless job
Dec 12, 2025 • Bridget Young
Confession #21: I'm In A Mood This Month
In the middle of nowhere
Nov 14, 2025 • Bridget Young
The Hidden Cost of Freedom
With Liberty and Justice For Some
Nov 11, 2025 • Bridget Young
On Being A Failed Mom
And why I keep writing
Sep 19, 2025 • Bridget Young
There Are Worse Things in the World
Thoughts From the Road
Jun 27, 2025 • Bridget Young
Confession #15: Dads Matter
3-Inch Heels, Rampaging Elephants, and A Boy From New Orleans
Jun 13, 2025 • Bridget Young
The Robots are Human
And Vice Versa
Jun 6, 2025 • Bridget Young
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