Oklahoma woman is buckin’ the system
Jamie Brooks remembers the feeling of excitement mixed with fear the first time she was taken outside prison walls to practice for the rodeo.
"I just wanted to get outside the fence, you know, the legal way, because I’d been locked up for so long,” she said.
Brooks is one of several former inmates at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft who will step out of the shadows of prison li...
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