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At women's prison, a vision for success
By mcall.com
Published: 06/15/2018

The orders were stacking up in front of her work station, but Ashley remained calm. With a practiced flick of her wrist, she dipped eyeglass lenses into pans of dye, watching the hue slowly darken to each customer’s specification.

The 35-year-old from Johnstown spends most of her days in this state-of-the-art optical lab, working alongside 20 other highly trained women who make all types of glasses. At night, when she’s locked up, Ashley writes letters to her five children.

“I needed to change, and this place changed me,” she said of her home for the last three years, the state women’s prison in Cambridge Springs.

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