Tara Perry grew up in Texas with her father out of the picture, raised by her mother and grandparents in a family where functioning addiction was just part of daily life — which is how she first got exposed to meth as a teenager and started using at just 13 years old. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, she shares how she dropped out of school in ninth grade, had her first child at 16, spent six months in state prison before a five year sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections before she was even 20 years old, and stayed hooked on meth from age 13 all the way to 26 — always managing to get sober inside jail or prison before the cycle started again on the outside. She opens up about eventually starting to sell meth, getting connected to a major organization, having multiple children while in and out of addiction, and what happened when someone close to her snitched and the DEA came knocking. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — and spent seven of those years inside a Texas federal facility before Donald Trump pardoned her on the last day of his first term.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and Early Life
03:50 Childhood, Family & Identity
09:50 First Exposure to Drugs
16:00 Teenage Drug Use & Relationships
23:00 First Criminal Charges & Jail Experience
31:30 Life After First Incarceration
39:00 Motherhood and Continued Addiction
47:00 Second Prison Sentence & Having a Baby in Jail
55:30 Release, Relapse, and Escalating Drug Trade
01:03:30 DEA Bust and Facing Federal Charges
01:10:00 Sentencing and Time in Federal Prison
01:18:00 Life, Change, and Purpose in Prison
01:29:00 Clemency and Life After Prison
01:36:00 Growth, Healing, and Closing Reflections

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