Browsing: “They’ve helped me with resources and given me advice when I’m in error. They challenge me to grow. That’s how you become the best version of yourself – by having people who really care.”

       “I kind of felt violated,” she recalls, describing how two male correctional officers searched her and unzipped her hoodie despite her objections. Angry and intoxicated, she flooded a toilet in her pod after being denied a phone call. “It was like an out of body situation,” she says. “I was so mad they wouldn’t let me make a phone call. I could’ve bonded out that night.”