“The labels, the powerlessness shackle themselves around my ankles,” she wrote in a published essay, “Not Waving, Not Drowning.” “And I feel the weight, pulling me down to my death with the force of a two-ton anchor. I gasp violently, inhaling my hopes and clinging to my dreams, which now serve as lifesavers.”
Report calls for reducing number of incarcerated women in Illinois and more support for those bettering themselves
