At our age of 81 and 87, we had almost given up on visiting Roger again, but it was thanks to the generous offer of Beatrice and Pascal Bernard to organise the whole journey that this much-longed-for encounter could take place. We never quite know how a visit is going to turn out. The strict formalities of entering Wynne Unit are sobering to say the least, and the waiting always sets us to wondering if the meeting will ever be really friendly or fruitful. But at last we are l

I had to wait in a line for 30 minutes in the cold before entering, passing the metal detector and a careful search - as it should be - with guards doing a verification of the ID, before heading to the visiting room. Then, there is always a waiting time while the prisoner comes to the visiting room, which allows us time to buy something from the vending machines to offer him a ‘mini meal’ (chips of all kinds, dried meat or sausage, mini cake, chocolate bar, beverage, etc.). T