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Doing Time With Mom

  • Josh Temple, 17, spends time alone in a bus before traveling to visit his mother, Barbara Temple, at the Valley State Prison For Women in Chowchilla, Calif. The trip is part of the Get on the Bus program coordinated by the Diocese of San Bernardino. Dozens of children and their guardians took the 12-hour bus trip before Mother's Day. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Coach America bus driver Viola Connor, left, and Sister Sara Shrewsbury, Diocese of San Bernardino vocational director and coordinator for Get on the Bus, joke around while planning the route from St. James Catholic Churchin Perris, Calif., to the Valley State Prison For Women in Chowchilla, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ronald Hanson of Riverside, Calif., carries his pillow and blanket on the bus while looking for a seat before traveling to visit his mother Ericka Hanson during the Get on the Bus event. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Terry Johnson-Gonzalez of Riverside, Calif., says goodbye to her nephews Ronald and Sadie Hanson before they travel to the prison.(The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Dametrius Batchelor, 6, left, and Sheleea Waldon, 10, play around while making Mother's day cards on the bus. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ronald Hanson of Riverside, Calif., slumps down between the seats thinking about what to say to his mother, Ericka Hanson. Ronald has not seen his mother for several years. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • After serveral hours on the road, children including Sheleea Waldon, 10, of Perris, Calif., made Mother's Day cards during the bus trip. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Deja Cox, 15, of Lake Elsinore, Calif., sits with her grandmother Nancy Phillips, left, while traveling to the prison to visit her mother. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Sister Sara Shrewsbury comforts Jada Pointer, 9, of Perris, Calif., as they get closer to the prison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Dametrius Batchelor, 6, of Perris, Calif., left, looks out of the bus window before entering the prison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Sister Sara Shrewsbury spends a moment with Dametrius Batchelor, 6, and his sister Jada Pointer, 9, telling them that it will be all right to see their mother Sonja Bullette, who is inprison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Participants in the Get on the Bus program enter the prison, and go through security processing before seeing inmates. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Darryl Taylor, 2, and his grandmother Ladona Patterson walk through the prison gates to see Darryl's mother at the Valley State Prison For Women in Chowchilla, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Jada Pointer, 9, of Perris, Calif., looks for her mother, Sonja Bullette, in the visiting area at the prison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Families from around California enjoy the visit tothe prison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ronald Hanson stands next to the door waiting for his mother Ericka Hanson to come out from the inmate general populationarea. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Deja Cox, 15, left, reacts as her mother comes out to greet her. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Deja Cox, 15, center, greets her mother as her grandmother Nancy Phillips looks on. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Sonja Bullette embraces one of her daughters, Jada Pointer, 9, as her other daughter, Marquisha Scout,laughs with joy. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Marisol Gutierrez and her son, Jonathan Vargas, 6, of Los Angeles, Calif., left, play around with Antonia Salazar and her daughter, JessicaTorres of Bakersfield, Calif., during the visit to the prison. The children and their mothers had three hours to together. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Monica Valenzuela, center, spends time alone with her daughters, Priseilla Lopez, left, and Venessa Lopez, of Bakersfield, Calif., in the outside visitingarea. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Darryl Taylor starts to cry as his mother Tonya tries to hold himafter seeing the two year old for the first timesince birth. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Leticia Valenzuela, 26, of Red Bluff, Calif., caresses her daughter, Liliana, 8, hair before saying goodbye in the visiting area. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Angela Gipson of Los Angeles, Calif., upper left,prepares to say goodbye to her children Jonathan, bottom left, Kirby, Omani, Brianna and Eric. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Dametrius Batchelor, 6, left, and Jada Pointer, 9, say goodbye to their mother, Sonja Bullette, after spending three hours with her at the prison. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ericka Schmid comforts her son, Randy, 12, and daughter, Shannon, 14, as her other daughter Tanya looks away while saying goodbye in the prison visiting area where they spent three hours with each other. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Michelle Galos of Los Angeles, Calif., blows a kiss to herfive children as they leave the prison visting room after spending three hours together during the Get on the Bus visit. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ericka Hanson of Riverside, Calif., stands alone after saying goodbye to her children after the Get on the Bus visit. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Ronald and Sadie Hanson, center, of Riverside, Calif., look back after leaving the building where they spentthree hours visiting with their mother Ericka Hanson. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Volunteer Monica McEntee and Jada Pointer fall asleep on the bus on the way home. Sister Sara Shrewsbury, left, also takes a break from the 12-hour day. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
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