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Good ole FPC Bryan

We're back from Texas safe and sound! It was so great to see Andrea and the camp where she's been at for about 2 years. It was a very nice place that was a college prior to being a prison camp. At the front entrance where there was regular steel 6' fencing and just a traffic bar like you'd see at a railroad track crossing. There was 20' fences with razor wire at the top around the rest of the camp. When we asked her sister about the fences she said it wasn't to keep the inmates in, it was to keep intruders out! She told us stories of women that would have someone meet them to have sex, exchange drugs and just about any other thing you could imagine! The inmates know they can walk out at anytime but they'll get caught, and then the luxury of being in a minimum security prison camp would be gone. I did notice that this prison camp is really structured to help the inmates progress. Example, in the two years Andrea has been there she has recieved her GED, and wi...