I had a naรฏve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
Patricia McConnellThe loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.
Patricia McConnellThe only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
Patricia McConnellAlthough I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.
Patricia McConnell