Biography Entry: Valerie Shanell Menefield

My goals after this incarceration are:

  1. Make care packages for people going to the halfway house.
  2. Reach out to troubled teens and try to help them get jobs just try to turn them away from the streets.
  3. I want to help pregnant women who are facing a prison term.

I want to take this experience I’m in now and help others and their children I read a lot of self-help books and I apply them to my goals I read the newspapers to see where my plans fit into the world I plan on making a difference for the prison system because it has gotten horrible and they don’t really try to help you reform but if you have the right mindset you can accomplish all your goals and I’m so focused I take so many classes bc, in the end, they will pay off I’m trying to find people that want to get together and build organizations that can help other prisoners because a person will listen more to a person that has been thru the struggle before they listen to somebody that’s only read books about the struggle.