WARTBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — For families who have loved ones that are incarcerated, the holidays can be a very difficult time. For one woman who experienced that, she says that prison saved her life.
Rochelle Grover came from a broken home where she was moved around frequently, leaving her with “abandonment issues,” she explained. Growing up, she got straight A’s in school but had behavioral problems and became a mother to two children as a teenager.
After high school, Glover joined the military seeing it as “a way for [her] to make better choices.” Unfortunately, during her service, she met an older man and soon found herself in a “toxic and abusive marriage,” that she was too ashamed to leave, she said. After leaving the military, the couple moved to Crossville, TN…