YOU SAID:
my father is in prison and my mom has taken me
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は刑務所におり、私の母は私を連れて行ってくれました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father is in prison, my mother took me
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は刑務所にいます、私の母は私を連れて行きました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was in jail, my mother took me
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は刑務所にいました、私の母は私を連れて行きました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was in prison, my mother took me
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は刑務所にいました、私の母は私を連れて行きました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was in prison, my mother took me
That didn't even make that much sense in English.