I just talked to a woman in a wheelchair who is doing 10 years for < $1,000 of meth. She says she has hep C and is in a prison camp with no fence, where she works driving other prisoners to jobs.

She still doesn’t qualify for release.

She’s struggled with meth addiction for years, and this is her 4th prison sentence because of it. In total, between all 4 bids, the drugs cost her less than $2,000.

“I’m not a bad person, it’s just crazy. I have a drug problem," she told me.

Every time she gets caught, she said, she pleads guilty and takes her time. “I’m not a bad person, it’s just crazy I have a drug problem,” she said. “I just don’t understand why they don’t send me to treatment.”

When she's gotten out before, she has relapsed. She's embarrassed about it. But again, she's never been sent to treatment. And she keeps going back to bad relationships. Her relapses, she says are "usually bc of some man that I date."

But now she's driving semis for the prison, and driving other prisoners to work on the compound. There's no fence, but she's managed to stay sober behind bars. "I don't leave from here and get high," she said.

But as of now, she hasn’t done enough of her time to get out.