FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a handwritten letter asking a judge for leniency, Brittany Hanfield wrote she had been behind bars since she was 17 years old and pregnant.
Hanfield, who was born in Fort Lauderdale, wrote to Broward County Circuit Judge Bernard Bober that she gave birth to her daughter while in detention.
Over the years, Hanfield wrote about her dream of being able to raise her daughter in freedom, and sent Bober a mother-daughter photo during a prison visit…