There's some family pictures.

There's some family pictures,

school papers that I've kept.

He always got very good grades.

This is excellent.

He loved dinosaurs.

He did a dinosaur project.

And you could see that he was such a happy person,

always with the smiles and the laughter and friends. He had lot of friends i'm with maria velasquez j jay's mother she's showing me his childhood drawings old report cards

photos of jay j when he was a kid i used to feel like a taxi driver running them to the movies, running them to shows, running them all over the place.

Because he always, oh, Mom will take you, Mom will take you.

And I wind up with five or six boys in my car driving them to the movies, taking them bowling, doing all kinds of things, you know?

This is one of my favorites.

Maria lives in Havistra, a town in New York on the Hudson River.

Directly across the water is Sing Sing, the maximum security prison where her son is locked up.

Maria pulls out another set of photos.

These look more recent.

In them, JJ's older.

When we go to the FRPs, the family reunion project, we always take pictures.

The program that Maria is describing lets incarcerated people with good behavior,

visit with their families for a couple of nights in a trail or on prison grounds.

We've celebrated birthdays, my birthday, his birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, all on FRP's.

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