A woman has revealed what it was like to have her boyfriend in prison for eight months.
Alice Jane met her boyfriend Kyle through a friend. Kyle needed a housemate and she was Jen’s friend. When Jen saw Kyle she was helping him inside. Immediately, she thought he was cute.
The pair eventually got engaged. Jane’s friend left and she went inside. Jane knew that her boyfriend was a small-time drug dealer. He used to sell drugs like cannabis and MDMA. It was a far cry from the world Jane had grown up in.
“When I first met him, it wasn’t as intense, it took two years,” Jane told news.com.au.
“We live in a small town and people talk.”
Things escalated rapidly. Soon, “busy” people started showing up at his house. He never touched drugs. He never even saw them.
Eventually the police raided his house. Jane was locked out because she lived in the house. Kyle was sent to an observation home. His aim was only to get him out on bail. The cost of bail was $1,972.
“A week later, I went back to my mother’s house. It was really busy. He was mentally struggling,” she said.
She stayed at her mother’s house for about four months. The couple were fighting. They were together but not at the same time.
Jane was mad that they lost their house. The last thing she wanted to do was live with her mother.
“I was really mad that we lost everything. I didn’t really pay attention to the fact that he lost everything too,” she said.
But, a month before Christmas, they reunited. They knew jail was coming. And, they were right. Kyle was sentenced to eight months in prison in March.
For the first month he was in an understaffed jail. This meant that Kyle was in his cell 22 hours a day. He never got a chance to speak.
Then, he was moved to another prison where he was not allowed to use the phone after 4 pm, with other inmates repeatedly threatening Kyle and Jen. Eventually, he sought help from jail. The prison transferred Kyle as a result.
In this new prison, Jane could go twice a week. He joked that he talked on the phone “20 million” times a day.
Jane, who passes by @aliceswonderland__Documented the couple’s trip online. There was a stir when he posted a video sharing the reality of Australian prisons.
“I was getting really nice messages from other women who had people in prison,” she said.
“They were telling me to keep making my videos, and saying they were helping. I was feeling a little embarrassed at people I knew after watching the video.
“But I knew people were enjoying them and I was enjoying making them.”
She said that she has met good people through her page. Now, she just wants to help others.
“When your partner moves in for the first time, you really feel like your whole life is over,” he said.
“You are still alive and you have to keep working throughout your life. You don’t even hear from them for the first two weeks, so you don’t know if they’re alive or not.
“But, I want everyone to know, everything will be okay. You get through it. “It just becomes a lifestyle that you get used to.”
He also said that if anything is happening then you should speak up. He said the prison guards are really there to help.
The beauty therapist’s boyfriend has been released. He feels as if he has blinked and come home.
“Sometimes it can be a little much because I’m used to doing my own thing,” he said.
“If I just go out – and it’s not going for drinks or food – I just get in the car and go. She has to comb her hair and look at herself for 30 minutes.
He said the pair are used to doing things differently. For now, they’re both just focusing on not getting overwhelmed. She said at first she was trying to make dinner plans but Kyle said he just wanted relaxing time. So, Kyle, Jen and their daughter have been spending a lot of time at the park.
