Read more about the guide in a note from Times Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. Deonte Smith was just 3 years old, and his brother just a baby, when their mother, Yolanda Diamond ...

Deonte Smith was just 3 years old, and his brother just a baby, when their mother, Yolanda Diamond, was incarcerated. She faced consecutive life sentences plus 25 years after crashing into another ...