A prisoner transport bus is not generally the happiest of places.

Inmates shackled and chained to one another are either on their way to court or headed back to the slammer.

It is almost always a commuter ride of misery. Except on the afternoon of November 30th,

2007, the trip from the San Diego Courthouse, back to the Las Calinas Women's Detention Center,

was positively joyous. A lot better now.

Yeah, a lot better.

Word had spread.

One of their own,

inmate number 6400265,

had just had her conviction overturned.

Cindy Summer was getting a new trial.

It was a long shot.

It was like going through a mouse hole with the Mack truck, so... There had been a lot of smiles and high fives on the bus that day.

Yeah, I'll be home soon.

That morning, Cindy had been a convicted felon, looking at a life sentence.

Now, at least in the eyes of the law, she was once again innocent until proven guilty.

Ah, man. I've been innocent for the past two years, so...

Innocent, perhaps, but far from free.

Man, it's hard.

It's life right now,

and there's nothing I can do about it right now.

Back at the detention center,

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