This month, California Northern Magazine features the narrative of Victoria Sanchez, from our latest title Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons.
About Victoria: In 1995, Victoria was arrested for a murder she was involved in three years earlier, when she was sixteen years old. Although she was a minor at the time of the murder, she was tried as an adult, and was subsequently sentenced to life without parole. Victoria talks about her painful separation from her four-month old son Ethan upon her arrest, and how she tried to cope with this in prison by adopting several of the cottontail rabbits that roam the prison grounds. “I raised one for three years, potty trained and all. I became its mom.†Victoria also describes her relationship with a member of staff, which resulted in an extension of six years on her sentence, and how she overcame her battle with heroin to become an advocate for juvenile offenders.
To read an excerpt from Victoria’s narrative, just click here.
