Mrs. Jones is the mother of Casey Jones. She is mentioned only by name or in flashbacks. She died before the beginning of the story by cancer, and her sickness and ultimate death caused her husband, to become a violent alcoholic offender, who vented his frustration on Casey Jones regularly. On her deathbed she wrung her son, who suffered from the attacks of his father every day, to make a promise to take care of him by not showing her husband his "true strength". However, this caused Casey to serve as an unwilling target for his father's fists and baseless allegations.
