Some people selflessly use the cards they've been dealt in life to make the game easier for the person next to them. For Channae Haller, her mission to help the downtrodden came to her while she was sitting in a Utah jail.
"I was trying not to lose my mind, you know, and so that's why I took out different opportunities and I started being nice to people and less in my head," she said, starting with her cellmate, a woman who never learned to read and had apparently been so mistreated by her biological mother and then adopted mother that she had a permanent soft spot on her skull from abuse as a child.
"So I started reading to her and helped her find her purpose," which started to give Haller purpose, she told the Deseret News. "I worked out a lot. I did a lot of yoga in there, and wrote a lot."
Haller said she was arrested approximately 14 times over three months due to a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband. After two months of jail time — for reasons she continues to assert were false and that are still under legal review — she chose to collaborate with the agencies involved in the criminal justice system through her nonprofit, Justice By Objectives, rather than harbor resentment.
