Send People Like Quierza Home

Deloice Lewis has extraordinarily difficult holidays. Her son, Quierza Lewis, was sentenced to die behind bars for possession of crack cocaine when he was 25. Because of a three strikes law, he'll never come home.

DeLoice said that she has been so devastated by her son's sentence that it has drive her to contemplate suicide. She said, "At one time, I say, I wish I could just drive into a river. And it would take it away, the hurt that I was having. The hurt that it was doing to me. I just wanted to drown at one time...I was really ready to commit suicide. that's the only thing I could think of, 'cause I couldn't help my child."