At only 16-years-old, Jessica Hicklin was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole after murdering a friend during a drug deal gone wrong. At the time, Hicklin was addicted to methamphetamine.
“My introduction to prison was, 'You have a lot of time, you're going to die here, and you need to figure out what to do with your life,'” says Hicklin. “I was faced with the reality that I would spend the rest of my life in one square mile in Missouri’s death-row prison.”
