Losing a Son in the New York State Prisons

When Lonnie Hamilton became a father, in 1993, he gave the baby his own name, making him Lonnie Hamilton III. Growing up, the boy split his time between his father’s home, in the Bronx, and Georgia, where his mother lived. When he was in the Bronx, he liked to go with his grandmother to the church on Crotona Avenue that his great-grandfather had founded. Lonnie started high school in Georgia, but after he began getting into trouble his father brought him back to the Bronx and enrolled him in the same public high school that he had attended. By now, his son spoke with a Southern accent; friends called him “Georgia.”

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