Tabitha wanted precious few things when she walked out of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City on July 21, 2022.

She wanted to be who she’d become within the walls and barbed wire fences of the prison. She wanted to be the parent she hadn’t been for the 18 years she was incarcerated. And she wanted to “succeed in life and never go back.”

Tabitha, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she is working to rebuild her life, had served time for a felony conviction she chooses not to explain other than it was not a financial crime. She does say she transitioned into her true gender in prison. “I did a lot of soul searching on the inside, really trying to figure out who I was and what made me make those choices that brought me to that point in my lif

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