31.   Robinson and wife Maren usually visit their son only once a year and he comes home just a few times.

32.   Richard Button and his wife visited their son in Arizona during late March.

33.   Several months ago, a private plane piloted by the father of an agent flying to visit his son crashed into the remote ridges.

34.   Sharpton, the worried mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, flew from Dothan, Ala., to visit her son at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

35.   She visited her son in the hospital once, two days after the near drowning.

36.   The Bakkers last visited their son in September.

37.   The father from New Hampshire who wanted to visit his son before classes began at UCLA.

38.   The last time Mrs. Morales visited her son, he told her he could be imprisoned for up to three years.

39.   The mothers described years of grueling trips to visit their sons in prison.

40.   The one day off she has taken was to visit her son at college.