Georgia Sloan, after serving 10 months in prison for a past drug charge, is back home and determined to make a positive impact on her life. She is focused on reuniting with her daughter, supporting her ailing mother, and building a brighter future.
An old drug charge sent her to prison despite a life transformation. Now Georgia Sloan is home. She hadn't used drugs in three years and she had a life waiting for her outside the Mississippi Correctional Institute for Women in Pearl: a daughter she was trying to reunite with, a sick mother and a career where she found purpose. During 10 months of incarceration, Sloan, who spent over half of her life using drugs, took classes, read her Bible and helped other women.
Her drug possession charge was parole eligible, and the Parole Board approved her for early release. At the end of October, she left the prison and returned to Madison County. The next day she was back at work at Musee, a Canton-based bath products company that employs formerly incarcerated women like Sloan and others in the community facing difficulties. She first started working at the company in 2021. “This side of life is so beautiful. I would literally hold on to my promise every single minute of the day while I was in (prison),” Sloan told Mississippi Today in December. Next year, she is moving into a home in central Mississippi, closer to work and her new support system. Sloan plans to bring her daughter and mother to live with her. Sloan is hopeful of regaining custody of her child, who has been cared for by her aunt on a temporary basis. “This is my area now,” she said. “This has become my family, my life. This is where I want my child to grow up. This is where I want to make my life because this is my life.” Additionally, Sloan is taking other steps to readjust to life after prison: getting her driver’s license for the first time in over a decade, checking in monthly with her parole officer and paying court-ordered fines and restitution
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