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Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

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I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.

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In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.

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A New Way of Life is a safe house that women can come to after they're released from prison in South Los Angeles. It's a place for women to detox the trauma, the torture of incarceration, be welcomed and embraced and live and begin their new path to - if it's recovery or receiving mental health services, go back to school, get their children back.

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Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.

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After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

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Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

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Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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