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Yes, the prison has a new name! The abbreviation that the Florida Corrections Department now uses is the FWRC. Besides the name change, there have been several other changes in the 5 weeks since our last visit. Last Monday, November 4th, when we reunited with the inmates we worked with in the summer and early fall, we learned that the prison has expanded by 500 women, adding inmates to two formally unoccupied dormitories. This expansion has caused some shifting among the extant prison population.  Some of our inmates have new responsibilities and new prison jobs. Judy has become an inmate-instructor in the GED Program, a responsibility that she has embraced with great enthusiasm. Morgan and Sam are a new dorm, part of the Joy Program, also with new responsibilities. All of the seven women we worked with were thrilled to share the journey daybook pages they had made in our absence. We all made pages together in the fresh air of the visiting pavilion and shared our work at the end of our 3 hours together. Check our the new pages that we made on the Journey Daybook Pages page. It is our plan to return for reunions with the inmates at least every two months.