Women say rehabilitative center turned their lives around

Markesia Huey spent 13 years in and out of prison. She said she walked the streets as a prostitute and used drugs. She didn't want to deal with the difficulties of just making a living, and felt relief when she was sent back to prison because life was easier to handle behind bars. But then she went to Casa Aurora, the Female Rehabilitative Community Correctional Center in east Bakersfield that offers treatment services, counseling and more than 30 classes a week. She said she turned her life around, is off parole and now volunteers to talk to people who are in the same situation she was once in.
Huey's son, Arion Wiley, said his mom is home for good after years of coming home from prison only to be sent back for a new offense a short while later. "Now she's just out," Wiley said. "She ain't going back to jail." 

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