HOPE: ONE PRISONER'S EMANCIPATION

ALISON GRANGER-BROWN lives on Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, and works with indigenous women in the prison system. She shares one woman's story of courage and personal transformation. It is a reminder that even the most marginalized can find their way toward peace and purpose in life.

- ALISON GRANGER-BROWN

This is about my journey alongside an Ojibwa woman who was my client and who became my friend. We met in the women's correctional system in British Columbia, Canada. At first I was afraid of her. That fear diminished as I became increasingly involved in her healing passage, and she grew from inmate to mother to researcher to colleague and finally to hospice patient. I traveled through many systems with her and saw first-hand the deeply ingrained racism in every institution and government organization with which she had to navigate and negotiate.