We Found Love, Part 3: ‘I Was Expecting a Pen Pal’
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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For the final episode in our series “We Found Love,” we explore the psychology behind prison relationships, a proposed law in Massachusetts that would eliminate life sentences without parole, and the story of an incarcerated man who’s wrestling with the pressures of a young relationship. Email us at [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Meredith. |
| 0:02.0 | Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, |
| 0:06.0 | which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points, |
| 0:10.0 | Navigating Mental Health. |
| 0:11.0 | Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of |
| 0:14.2 | navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes. |
| 0:18.3 | Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between. |
| 0:29.0 | Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media. |
| 0:34.2 | Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | How often to someone on the outside find a partner in prison, fall in love with them, and then it all works out? |
| 0:50.0 | It has to be pretty rare, right? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, you would think so. |
| 0:54.0 | And yet, one of the most popular support groups for prison wives, as they call themselves, |
| 0:58.0 | has more than 60,000 members from all over the world. |
| 1:02.0 | That includes women who already knew their partner |
| 1:04.2 | before they went to prison, but still, that's just one group among dozens that exist |
| 1:08.8 | as organized non-profits or more casual networks online. This is Boston Globe Criminal Justice reporter Ivy Scott |
| 1:16.0 | who spent the past few months learning about how romantic love and partnership |
| 1:20.0 | run up against and sometimes transcend the justice system. |
| 1:24.3 | It's all part of a three-part series we're calling, |
| 1:26.3 | We Found Love. |
| 1:28.2 | Ivy, I know we met two couples in previous episodes |
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