Violence intervention worker didn’t even know dream job existed when she was locked up

When LaToya Baines landed in an Illinois jail over a decade ago, everyone there thought she was crazy, she says.

She didn’t leave her cell, and she didn’t speak to anyone.

“I’m an emotional person,” she says, “so when I went to prison, you can’t really have emotions. Like, you have other people dictating your life, you’re on a schedule. In those moments when I did have an emotion, I had to go hide somewhere to feel what I feel out…

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