While she was waiting in the county jail for her trial for the car accident that had taken two young lives, Amy began to transform. She got off all of the prescription meds. Her eyes began to sparkle and color came back to her face. She even started to smile. Amy was the first person to receive her high school diploma inside the county jail! Amy will tell you that her budding relationship with God had everything to do with her transformation. "I finally came to grips with the fact that if the God of the Universe was able to forgive me, maybe I might someday be able to forgive myself."
Two years later, a two-week trial ended in a guilty verdict and an 8-year sentence to state prison. But Amy continued her positive stride in state prison. She enrolled in college courses and earned credits towards a Small Business Management certificate. She enrolled in the Puppies Behind Bars program and trained dogs to serve the disabled, or to become police dogs or dogs for the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2007, a higher court ruling released Amy two years early. A shattered child entered the corrections system, but a beautiful 26-year-old woman emerged from out of its gates. Today Amy is celebrating 5 years drug and alcohol free. She enjoys her fulltime employment and works out regularly. Today, she will begin fulltime schooling at the Somerset School of Massage Therapy to become a Certified Massage Therapist.
"I tried so many times to die. I cut my wrists and lived. I injected bleach into my veins and lived. God just wouldn't let me die no matter how much I wanted to. I finally figured out that He wouldn't have kept me around here if he didn't have some pretty important things for me to do on this earth."
Redeem-Her would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Amy on all of her accomplishments and share with you just how proud we are of her!
It was the heroin that finally landed Amy in jail. She attempted suicide again in jail and was placed, naked, in a bare cell in the unit referred to as Constant Watch. It was when Amy was stable enough to be classified to general population that she first met Redeem-Her's Founder and Director, Stacey Kindt. "When I first saw Amy she was a shell of a person. She weighed probably 80 pounds. Her face was sunken in and her skin was ashen. She was so drugged up on psychiatric meds that she could barely function. She looked like death." 
