Female inmates can fear release as much as sentence

For many of us, the prospect of jail time is a frightening thing. But for some incarcerated women, it’s getting released that’s the scary part.

Georgina Poirier knows all about that. The 40-year-old Cambridge woman was let out of the Grand Valley Institution For Women in 2007 after a three-year sentence for dealing drugs.

She went from an institution where all her needs where taken care of, to a world where suddenly she needed money, a job and a place to live.

Poirier, who was the keynote speaker at a packed forum on housing for female inmates Wednesday, felt on her own.

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