Justina Rockeymore runs her own dog grooming business out of her home in West Philadelphia. She’s a single mom with a high school senior and a four-month-old baby. She has dreams: of traveling, of opening her own salon and mobile grooming van, of being able to relax with friends and family at parties.

None of those dreams have been achievable because Rockeymore — after doing her time in Muncie Correctional Facility — has been on probation, continuously, for the last seven years. That has meant paying restitution, doing community service, traveling 1.5 hours via public transportation each way to see her probation officer (P.O.) in Delaware County (weekly, at first, then monthly), checking in every time she wants to leave the state, declining invitations in case they put her at risk of viol

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