Category: Perspective

A friend of mine was released from Perryville a few months ago.  She’s an amazing person – intelligent, beautiful and fun.  She wrote this text message to my mom yesterday and gave me permission to share it so you know that life can hold wonderful possibilities, even after years behind bars.  People can change! “I am good. I still work at the same place. I’m still super busy and involved with recovery stuff. Still, go to meetings every day and working with a sponsor. I spend weekends with my son… Would love a day where I had nowhere to go and nothing to do!!

My name is Sabrina and as I mentioned in my bio, my current home is a very small cell in a very large women’s prison called Perryville in the middle of the Arizona desert. While I was still in the county jail awaiting court/sentencing my thoughts were probably no different from anyone else in that situation – “What can I say or do to get out of this mess?  This can’t be happening to me-  I’m a good person who just made a mistake!”