"What do you want to do? Do you want to opt out? Or keep trying?" "What are you going to test positive for today?" asked the judge. Her mom was taking care of her 2-year-old son. Stacy said her 12-year-old daughter had been staying with her paternal grandparents for almost a year. Or she could put her in prison for violating her probation.įarnell asked Stacy about her children. The judge could send her to a long-term treatment facility or halfway house. Now she faced a sentence of 10 years instead of five. But then she failed a drug test, stopped going to counseling, started skipping court. If you go through rehab, if you go to 12-step meetings and get a job and stay sober, you can stay out of jail - and have your felony record wiped clean.įor a while, Stacy had tried. The judge had offered a deal: Plead guilty and go on probation. The charge carried a possible five-year prison sentence. Stacy slouched down the aisle, clasped her hands behind her back and hung her head.Įighteen months earlier, she had been arrested for using a fake prescription to buy oxycodone, the painkiller she had been snorting or shooting for four years. America’s first all-female drug court was in session. "The honorable Judge Dee Anna Farnell presiding." Just before 9 a.m., a thin, chestnut-haired woman in a black robe strode through the back door. Many of the women struggled to hold up their heads. More than 100 women, most 20 to 40 years old, filled the wooden benches. She wanted to be sure she would have a change of underwear in jail.Ĭourtroom 10 was packed when Stacy and her mom, Sherry Alkire, slid into the back row. Underneath, she was wearing two bras, a tank top, two white T-shirts and three pairs of panties. She twisted her long, honey-colored hair into a knot.
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She was in trouble for skipping her last court date, so today, she planned to turn herself in. Days before, she had told her mom she was tired of stealing and doctor shopping to get pills.