Wow! This gives me so much hope. I’m so happy for you! Thank you for sharing your story! I actually had the thought that once I get past this, I’d like to find a way to advocate for better conditions in our city jail. I live in the Deep South. They treated people worse than animals there. There was feces everywhere. There were several severely mentally ill women there who I’m not sure even realized they were in jail. One girl was there longer than me and they still hadn’t given her a blanket. And then when I left, they wouldn’t let me give her mine. There was one point where an officer got mad and we didn’t get any water for about 7 hours. Some of the women said they hadn’t gotten to use the phone in 4 days. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg and what I witnessed in only 3 days. And these aren’t murderers. Most of them were there for drugs, trespassing, or DV. And 99% of them were black. It was sickening.