Email ABC Radio National By Erin Stutchbury Posted February 18, 2020 07:00:00 Photo: Angela Williams went to jail at 19. At 34, she was re-arrested and told she had time left to serve. (Supplied) Related Story: Khalid Baker was convicted of murder — but was it a miscarriage of justice? Related Story: From jail to $150k a year: How Korey’s experience could help overhaul WA’s prison system Related Story: ‘No other option’: Why judges send country drug addicts to jail Map: Australia Three days after Angela Williams was hit by a postie bike, she was sent to prison for a crime she’d committed 13 years earlier — one she thought she’d already served time for.She had spent the years in between getting her life back on track: kicking a heroin addiction, starting a creative arts degree and getting her son out of foster care.”In 2009, when I submitted my honours thesis, I felt like I was in control of my life,” she says.”I had a path towards the future.”But her past was about to catch up with her.The original sentenceMs Williams was first sentenced in October 1996, when she was 19.After breaking into a house in search of a drug… Read full this story
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