Father Denied Furlough To See Dying Daughter

[ImWithStupid]

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Inmate’s daughter loses fight against cancer
By Kendra Waltke Lee Enterprises
Friday, Mar 28, 2008 - 11:35:04 am CDT

LINCOLN -- The 10-year-old daughter of an inmate who fought the system to see her has died of brain cancer.

Jayci Yaeger lived long enough to see her father, Jason Yaeger, earlier this week.

Jason Yaeger is serving a four-year sentence in a federal prison in Yankton, S.D., on drug charges and is scheduled to be released next year.

He appealed to prison authorities and the courts -- and even asked President Bush for clemency -- to be transferred to halfway house closer to Nebraska in order to spend time with his daughter, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Inmate?€™s daughter loses fight against cancer - News - Local - The Columbus Telegram - Columbus, Nebraska's Community Newspaper

 

[sheik-yerbouti]

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Inmate’s daughter loses fight against cancer - News - Local - The Columbus Telegram - Columbus, Nebraska's Community Newspaper

gut wrenching stuff. Like everyone else with compassion, I wish this had ended differently.

God bless angel....

 

[Old Salt]

I'm just happy that she got to see her daddy before she died.

 

[hugo]

Jayci was in the last stages of a seven-year fight with cancer. She had been unresponsive since last week at a Lincoln hospice.

The father committed the crime when his daughter was battling cancer. You can't give breaks to parents of sick children. May she RIP.

 

[hugo]

Jayci was in the last stages of a seven-year fight with cancer. She had been unresponsive since last week at a Lincoln hospice.

The father committed the crime when his daughter was battling cancer. You can't give breaks to parents of sick children. May she RIP.

 

[wez]

R.I.P angel..

 

[wez]

R.I.P angel..

 

[atlantic]

I heard on the news the girl got to see her father before she passed, thank god.

 

[atlantic]

I heard on the news the girl got to see her father before she passed, thank god.

 

[RegisteredAndEducated]

Can the father negotiate some sort of 'reconciled' prison term whereby he gets to take some leave now, and make up the difference later?

Or compensate for the special treatment by serving a longer sentence?

And even though his request has been denied, can he appeal?

Sorry, I don't know much about the US prison system, but surely since compassionate leave circumstances are taken into account in the policy, they can be negotiated when the circumstances arise?

This is kind of what I was going to suggest. Let her have her father for the last month, but have an armed guard with him and make him wear an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracker. Make it basically like prison, but with his daughter there. Then make him make up the time when she does pass.

 

[Old Salt]

Unfortunately, shortly after her father was allowed to visit, she passed away.

 

[ImWithStupid]

Unfortunately, shortly after her father was allowed to visit, she passed away.

I think I read somewhere that they let him back out to go to the funeral.

 

[Old Salt]

I think I read somewhere that they let him back out to go to the funeral.

I think he was at the funeral.