Tonesa Welch

You know, you got all those drugs. You driving or you doing something. Come on, God. Thank you, God. Blessing him for the wrong things, you know, and when I end up in prison, I realized that I had to call on him much more than I ever had to call on him in my life. I was in the middle of the desert. I was the only one that worked in the prison chapel. So now I had to face God.

You know, you got all those drugs. You driving or you doing something. Come on, God. Thank you, God. Blessing him for the wrong things, you know, and when I end up in prison, I realized that I had to call on him much more than I ever had to call on him in my life. I was in the middle of the desert. I was the only one that worked in the prison chapel. So now I had to face God.

I didn't realize in my whole life how many different religions or that I was there, and I just seen all these books and all these things that I had to deal with every day. I felt like I was stripped. I had nobody. Even though you have family on the outside, you have your children, but once I was in prison, I was alone. No matter how many women were around me, I felt...

I didn't realize in my whole life how many different religions or that I was there, and I just seen all these books and all these things that I had to deal with every day. I felt like I was stripped. I had nobody. Even though you have family on the outside, you have your children, but once I was in prison, I was alone. No matter how many women were around me, I felt...

I felt alone and I had to call on this man and get on my knees and call on him like I never called on him before. My whole family, it was like I was in a fire once I got indicted. I felt like I had, like a fire had took over. You know how when people say I lost everything? I felt like I lost everything. Now I'm alone. I'm in prison. I got to do all these years. I'm mad. I'm bitter. I'm angry.

I felt alone and I had to call on this man and get on my knees and call on him like I never called on him before. My whole family, it was like I was in a fire once I got indicted. I felt like I had, like a fire had took over. You know how when people say I lost everything? I felt like I lost everything. Now I'm alone. I'm in prison. I got to do all these years. I'm mad. I'm bitter. I'm angry.

I'm full of regret. I'm feeling so sorry for myself. Like how you feel sorry for yourself? Talking to me, you know, why are you feeling sorry for you? You belong here. You had gotten away with so much in your life. You belong here. Because at first I'm thinking I'm mad at Terry and Demetrius. And, you know, as time went on, I'm like, well, how are you going to be mad at him?

I'm full of regret. I'm feeling so sorry for myself. Like how you feel sorry for yourself? Talking to me, you know, why are you feeling sorry for you? You belong here. You had gotten away with so much in your life. You belong here. Because at first I'm thinking I'm mad at Terry and Demetrius. And, you know, as time went on, I'm like, well, how are you going to be mad at him?

You've been selling drugs way before that. You just got away with this. You know, I was just getting away. I was just, you know, God had been saving me a long time. He'd been saving me through the abuse, through getting caught up with all the drugs. It was finally he said. I got to chastise you. You got to come here. Yeah, sit you down, baby.

You've been selling drugs way before that. You just got away with this. You know, I was just getting away. I was just, you know, God had been saving me a long time. He'd been saving me through the abuse, through getting caught up with all the drugs. It was finally he said. I got to chastise you. You got to come here. Yeah, sit you down, baby.

And when I was sitting down and I was all alone, I realized that how messed up I was, this criminal mind and this thinking, my heart and my soul, I was, I had to get it together because now I have five young men in prison. I can't talk to them. I can't hear their voice. I was in prison. I had to just imagine my son's voice, my oldest son.

And when I was sitting down and I was all alone, I realized that how messed up I was, this criminal mind and this thinking, my heart and my soul, I was, I had to get it together because now I have five young men in prison. I can't talk to them. I can't hear their voice. I was in prison. I had to just imagine my son's voice, my oldest son.

Even though my nephew was there, but it's different, your son. I feel bad for all of them, but I'm responsible. Now I don't hear my oldest son. He's 21, and he's got to spend 11 years of his life in prison. I got two sons at home just kind of fending for themselves. They're young men. They never had been without their mother. And I'm sitting here in prison, I had to get it together.

Even though my nephew was there, but it's different, your son. I feel bad for all of them, but I'm responsible. Now I don't hear my oldest son. He's 21, and he's got to spend 11 years of his life in prison. I got two sons at home just kind of fending for themselves. They're young men. They never had been without their mother. And I'm sitting here in prison, I had to get it together.

Did H step up with them whenever you went away or? Remember H was after the seven years, a few years later, H went back into prison.

Did H step up with them whenever you went away or? Remember H was after the seven years, a few years later, H went back into prison.

So, um, and my youngest sons, they were out in the streets. They didn't have to be, I could say, go home to my mom. Now we're going to stay here closer to you because they wanted to come visit me. But still they couldn't be, live their life no more. Right. You know, then I started.

So, um, and my youngest sons, they were out in the streets. They didn't have to be, I could say, go home to my mom. Now we're going to stay here closer to you because they wanted to come visit me. But still they couldn't be, live their life no more. Right. You know, then I started.

Yeah, they're doing the time with me because they got to come visit me. They got to feel that hurt. They don't have a father. They don't have no brother. They don't have a mommy. They just out there alone. And I felt that when I was in prison. So that was the turning point of my life. And I've said that I needed to go there.

Yeah, they're doing the time with me because they got to come visit me. They got to feel that hurt. They don't have a father. They don't have no brother. They don't have a mommy. They just out there alone. And I felt that when I was in prison. So that was the turning point of my life. And I've said that I needed to go there.