When Elsie Flores was just 16 years old, she was arrested for selling drugs to an undercover cop. At the time of her sentencing, she was eight months pregnant, without a family support system — and suddenly facing up to six years at a state prison.
“My mom was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and my dad wasn’t around, so I got caught up in the streets at the age of 10,” Flores says. “The only thing that I knew was the negativity in the streets. One of the hardest things to do was go from negativity to positivity in my life.”
