Marie was released from prison in late 2023 and tried to put Ross out of her mind. But it was hard to move on, she said, because he called her almost every day, telling her he missed the things they did together. Those things had shattered her self-worth and her long-term relationship with her child’s father, she said. She had never had multiple sexual partners, but “I got out and I was just sleeping with people. Almost in a leverage kind of way,” she said. “’Cause that’s what I learned in there.”
Before going to prison, she had used drugs, and now she relapsed on methamphetamines. She begged her probation officer for help, asking to go to rehab, she said. Instead, in 2024, she was sent to a federal prison in Alabama for violating the terms of her release.
Dejected and alone, Marie got an unexpected visitor in prison, she said: a
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