It won't be anything compared to what the free world will have, but again we will be grateful. The day will come and go without notice. The mail will not run that day, so if you don't get a visit you won't have much contact with the outside - unless you can afford a phone call. I will call home, but many can't. I will not ask my wife and family to visit at Christmas, it is supposed to be a joyous time of year, a day of celebration - not misery.
Some families come, and the prisoners worry themselves sick about bad weather and drunken drivers.
Let's face it - Christmas as it is known in the free world, does not exist in here. It is just another day with little relief from monotony. We will be lonely, we will be deep in sorrow and we will get through it. But the one thing that hasn't been taken away is our memories of Christmases past, the good times we have had with our families in our yesteryears. Feel free to email an article of interest.