The Price Tag: The Impact of One Woman's Criminal Career
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › December 17, 2007
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Way back in early 2000, a Utah judge asked for a thorough evaluation on a young woman who'd come before him on charges related to her drug-abusing lifestyle.
"Let's find out if the subject is truly interested in turning her life around," 3rd District Judge Stewart Hansen said at the time.See the full content of this document
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The Price Tag: The Impact of One Woman's Criminal Career
Monique Knudsen was 23 then, a mother and already three years into a life of crime and addiction to methamphetamine and other drugs. The state put her on probation, but a federal officer who supervised her after a counterfeiting money conviction said early on that he was "concerned about her success."
That federal officer was prescient, or maybe just wise to the paralyzing pattern of offenders drawn into a life of drug addiction, crime and pris...See the full content of this document
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