When they spotted her driving around aimlessly, they screamed to get her attention. She shouldn't have done it. We both should've thought before we did it. Someday, Shawn knows she will have to apologize to her own daughter. She doesn't remember who Shawn is.
Drugs are an obvious lure into a life of crime for women, but so, surprisingly, are gangs.
During her mother's first prison stint, Michelle Barnes was a member of a prison teen group that was set up to help mothers and children deal with the separation of incarceration. Now, she's an inmate, too. Barnes says she stabbed the victim because the woman was punching her mother. With them, history has repeated itself, double time. Barnes says she grew up around violence because her mother was part of a gang.