Bending the Arc--#50 finished

The rest of the title: My Journey from Prison to Politics.  The author Keeda Haynes has a really good story of her life where she got caught up with a guy she should not have trusted and into a justice system that did not believe her which she fought against.  Fighting earned her a prison sentence but she was able to come out and get into law school and then pass and get admitted to the bar in Kentucky.  After a few years as a public defender she ran for a Congressional seat, she didn't win but pushed some issues.  I can see why some in justice didn't believe her, the boyfriend was paying her to have packages delivered to her work and home addresses which then someone else would pick up.  She even brought a sister and friend into this.  Well the packages were supposed to be phones & beepers but were really drugs--marijuana.  So can see why she wasn't more aware of what was happening but to step back and see she was a 19 year old girl with a boyfriend telling her all okay and giving a kind of reasonable explanation, can see where she just didn't ask the questions.  Is troubling that the judge sentenced her harshly for this.  Overall a good read about what she had gone though and how she was able to fight for herself.

There are no copies in system at PBS but so far not really ready to post either since was a lot of information in here.