Nicole Ledezma

06/05/2026

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐞 & 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃! | June 5th - 7th

This weekend you can:
🌮 Visit Food Truck Round-Up at Perkins Rowe
🎬 Watch Zootopia 2 under the stars with East Baton Rouge Parish Library
🦁 Enjoy Zoo Guest Appreciation Weekend at BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo
🐝 Learn about bees at BREC's Magnolia Mound
📚 Celebrate Louisiana storytelling at the Louisiana Old Governor's Mansion
🔬 Explore science activities at Louisiana Art & Science Museum
🏰 Create crafts at the Louisiana's Old State Capitol

Whether you’re looking for something free, educational, outdoors, or just plain fun, there’s a little bit of everything happening this weekend.

👉 Full details: https://batonrougefamilyfun.com/things-to-do-in-baton-rouge-this-weekend-june-5-7/

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

Every time Louisiana passes another “tough on crime” bill, my heart sinks a little more.

Not because I don’t believe in accountability.

Not because I don’t care about victims.

But because I wish our state would spend as much energy on rehabilitation, mental health treatment, addiction recovery, and correcting wrongful convictions as it does on punishment.

There are people sitting in prison who struggle with severe mental illness.

There are people fighting to prove their innocence.

There are families desperately trying to get courts to review new evidence.

There are children growing up without their parents.

And now post-conviction relief is becoming even harder to navigate in a system that was already one of the toughest in the country.

You can support public safety and still believe in second chances.

You can support victims and still believe wrongful convictions should be taken seriously.

You can believe people should be held accountable and still recognize that human beings are capable of growth, healing, and redemption.

I just wish Louisiana focused less on how long we can punish people and more on how we can help people become better than their worst day.

Because every inmate is a person.

And every inmate has a family waiting for them.

06/01/2026

One of the best parts about working from home?

The dress code. 🤭

No rushing. No uncomfortable outfits. Just coffee, a comfy graphic tee, and getting things done from my favorite spot in the house.

Work from home life definitely has its perks. 💻

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05/31/2026

I asked a simple question:

“And you know for a fact that every single one of them is guilty?”

Instead of answering the question, a grown man called me a dumb b****. “Edward Trejo”

But let’s talk about the actual question.

Do people really believe every person in prison is guilty simply because they were convicted?

If that’s true, then why do appeals exist?

Why do wrongful convictions exist?

Why have innocent people been exonerated after spending years, sometimes decades, behind bars?

The justice system is run by human beings.

Human beings make mistakes.

That’s not anti-police.

That’s not anti-victim.

That’s reality.

So I’ll ask again:

Do you believe every single person sitting in a prison cell is guilty simply because a court said so?

05/31/2026

Everyone wants life to be black and white.

Good people.
Bad people.

Smart women.
Desperate women.

Worthy love.
Unworthy love.

But life has never lived inside those lines.

The world sees a prison wife and writes a story before she ever opens her mouth.

They assume she’s insecure.
Naive.
Settling.
Broken.

What they don’t see are the women working twelve-hour shifts, raising children, paying bills, earning degrees, building businesses, holding families together, and carrying more weight than most people could imagine.

They don’t see the mothers.

The daughters.

The sisters.

The wives.

The women who chose loyalty when walking away would’ve been easier.

And the truth is, some of us have been hurt more by people with complete freedom than by the men sitting behind bars.

A prison sentence tells you where someone sleeps.

It does not tell you how they love.

It does not tell you how they treat people.

It does not tell you their heart.

Just like my marriage doesn’t tell you my intelligence.

My standards.

My strength.

Or my worth.

The older I get, the more I realize life isn’t black and white.

It’s a thousand shades of gray that only make sense when you’ve lived them.

And maybe that’s why I love this photo so much.

Because when all the color disappears, you’re forced to look deeper than the surface.

Maybe people should do the same with each other.

🖤

05/30/2026

A therapist once said:

People who need therapy don’t come to us.

Their victims do.

Now let that sink in.

05/29/2026

I was talking with another prison wife recently, and we somehow got on the topic of mental health. Not just our own, but our husbands’ too.

My husband has bipolar, depression, and drug induced schizophrenia.

I have anxiety, depression, BPD, and HSP (Highly Sensitive Personality Trait).

Neither one of us has ever been the type to hide those things because mental health is important, and honestly, I don’t think it gets talked about enough, especially when it comes to our loved ones on the inside.

People are quick to talk about charges, mistakes, and sentences, but they rarely stop to think about what someone may have been struggling with long before they ended up behind prison walls.

There are so many families out here navigating anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, addiction, trauma, and everything that comes with it while also trying to survive incarceration.

Some days are harder than others.

Some days you’re trying to stay strong for the person you love while fighting your own battles at the same time.

I just wish mental health was talked about more.

Not because it’s an excuse.

Not because it takes away accountability.

But because it’s real.

And whether people want to admit it or not, mental health affects so many of the people we love, both on the inside and on the outside.

❤️

05/29/2026

OMG, I am OBSESSED with how this came out. 😭🌹

If you want your own, ask ChatGPT:

“Based on everything you know about me, what would be my street/chola nickname?”

Then say:

“Turn me into a Homies character based on that description.”

I swear these are so freaking cute.

05/29/2026

Sometimes I think about our story and it genuinely feels like something out of a movie. 😭

My husband and I started talking at the beginning of December 2024, and somehow in such a short amount of time, this person who was once a complete stranger started feeling like somebody my heart had known forever.

February 5, 2025, was the very first day I ever met my husband face to face.

I flew into New Orleans the day before, but nothing could’ve prepared me for that long drive to Angola the next morning. My stomach was in knots, my heart was beating out of my chest, and I swear every mile felt like forever because all I could think about was finally seeing him.

And what makes that day even more special to me is that it was also the day he graduated his drug program.

Two lives changing at the exact same time.

The crazy part is that the second I wrapped my arms around him, every nerve disappeared. It didn’t feel like meeting somebody new. It felt like finding somebody I had been missing my whole life.

Then on March 18, 2025, I married him.

So yes… I married my husband four months after we started talking and a little over a month after meeting him in person for the very first time ever. 😭

And I know people probably hear our story and think there’s no way this could make sense.

But love has never cared about timelines, distance, or circumstances.

Sometimes souls just recognize each other. 🤍