Summary

Although Brittany continued to progress in her corporate career, thoughts of her pro bono clients filled all of her thoughts, even when she was on vacation. Sharanda continued to suffer in prison and developed chronic pain from her knee joints. She grew out her dreadlocks and stated that she would not cut them until she was free. At one visit, Brittany saw that Sharanda was distressed over being forced to move cells after ten years in the same cell.

Brittany was approached by a Washington Post journalist named Sari Horwitz to write an article about Sharanda as part of a project on the impacts of the War on Drugs. At first, she was skeptical because they had poor experiences with the media in the past—journalists often failed to capture the nuances of Sharanda’ story. However, after discovering that Sari was...