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A Couple That Crafts Together Stays Together

Jenny Jimenez and her husband, Jesse, who is incarcerated in Illinois, have found creative ways to show each other love, especially around Christmas. Puzzle filters, nail clippers and Lifetime original movies are involved.

Life Inside • 12.19.2019

’Til Death Do Us Part

After my mother was diagnosed with cancer, she married the love of her life even though he was still behind bars. Then he got sick, too.

Life Inside • 12.05.2019

In Sickness, In Health—and In Prison

A Nebraska couple fighting to marry behind bars wouldn’t be the first: Three decades ago, two prisoners took their bid to marry all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Looking Back • 08.19.2019

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