| “College and the poetry and writing I was able to produce during the 12 years I spent at BHCF, helped me imagine and create worlds that were unreachable from inside. College gave me the tools to survive economically, socially and psychologically. Today, I educate women, I work, I have a desk, a computer, a life... but once a prisoner... it’s a life-long sentence, even on the outside. The punishment is never really over. Even for someone like me. I may have privileges some other women don’t — remember, in prison you don’t get to make decisions for yourself, so you forget how to do that; in prison... you don't have freedom. Then you get out — Welcome to America. Only now you can’t even vote!”
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