Left behind [isthmus.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/7/1812:00 PM

Jessiann Hodges grew up on Simpson Street in the 1980s when the crack epidemic hit urban neighborhoods hard. Her family was poor. Her father was in and out of prison while her mother struggled with mental illness.

Hodges first tangled with the law when she was caught stealing food for her family. She was 9. By 11, she was selling pot and ecstasy. By 14, she was participating in armed robberies and was eventually sentenced to Southern Oaks Girls School in Union Grove.

Hodges returned to Madison at age 18 and quickly fell back into the criminal life. She had a talent for business and returned to selling drugs and facilitating prostitution rings.

[For more on this story by PAT DILLON, go to https://isthmus.com/news/cover...arents-go-to-prison/]

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