Elmore Autauga News
When a parent is incarcerated, the sentence rarely ends with just one life. It’s a question most people don’t stop to ask, but one that quietly affects families across the country and here at home. What happens to the children left behind?
For some, the answer is a patchwork of temporary care, extended family, or foster placement. For others, it can mean instability, uncertainty, and the risk of falling into the same cycles that led their parents away. In Wetumpka, one place has spent decades stepping into that gap, not to replace families, but to preserve them…