You are sent into the jail, which is really a barn full of accused women. You are thrown into a corner where everyone around you gives you a stare as if you have just signed their death warrant. You might as well have by saying that you're guilty.

Day after day goes by as you sit, watching person after person leave to attend their trials, which is more likely their deaths. Month after month pass and finally, the door opens and the guard announces that everyone is released. As you breathe in your first take of freedom in months, you think to yourself, what could have been if you said you were innocent.

Start over