Jessica Grundie describes her young life as “typical to me”. It was however, anything but functional. Domestic violence, drugs and alcohol were all around her daily home life so much so that at 11, DCFS came knocking and she went to live with an Aunt and Uncle for a time. Rather than, as so many kids do, look to drugs and alcohol to hide her pain, she turned to anger. Fights and juvenile detention were a constant part of her young life until one day, at 15 years of age, while trying to escape from a detention facility, she stabs a worker. Sentenced to 5 years to life in the state prison, she sends her first 5 years in max; 23 hour lockdown. Her story is heartbreaking yet her outcome is glorious. Join me as she tells her story losing the anger and finding peace.

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00:00:00 - Jessica Grundie
00:01:42 - The Other Side Academy (TOSA)
00:01:57 - My Story Matters / Captain Your Story
00:02:47 - Her Young Life
00:05:25 - DFS Intervention
00:13:25 - Grand Theft Auto @ 12 years old
00:16:15 - Learning to Prefer Incarceration
00:27:15 - That Escalated Quickly
00:35:30 - They Loved Me The Way They Knew How
00:38:25 - Prison Summary, from 15 to 27
00:47:40 - Graduating Odyssey House 
00:52:15 - “Talk to Somebody”