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Melissa Sims helps her 3-year-old son, Eli with his boots at their house in Marianna, Fla., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Mrs. Sims and her husband, Joe, both work at the Federal Correctional Institute in Marianna, but are having to take turns working for weeks at a time at the federal prison in Yazoo City, Miss, a nearly 7-hour drive. Photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times

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Melissa Sims helps her 3-year-old son, Eli with his boots at their house in Marianna, Fla., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Mrs. Sims and her husband, Joe, both work at the Federal Correctional Institute in Marianna, but are having to take turns working for weeks at a time at the federal prison in Yazoo City, Miss, a nearly 7-hour drive. Photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times