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Barbara Baker is the advocacy director at Keyway Center for Diversion and Reentry, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that works with, and on behalf of, women in the criminal justice system. When Baker, 72, was first hired, she was only a few years out of prison. She had been arrested more than 50 times and served five sentences for shoplifting to support a drug habit. Her kids spent years in the care of family members; one was taken from her just days after his birth.
