Convicted of killing a woman while drink-driving, Locane served her time and spent the next five years as a model citizen, facing up to her crime and trying to stop others from following in her footsteps. Then she was locked up again for the same offence …
Amy Locane is struggling to make sense of it all. The actor and mother of two children knows she committed a crime with devastating consequences, so she accepted it when she pretty much lost everything as a result – doing her time in jail uncomplainingly. The one thing she can’t accept is that, after being released and living in the community for five years as a model citizen, she is back in prison for the same crime. It is a situation that one legal expert described as “unheard of”.
In September 2020, Locane was re-sentenced to eight years in jail. “I’m not really sure what’s going on,” she tells me from the Edna Mahan correctional facility for women. “I walk around in a daze. It’s really messing with my mind. I never violated any rules. I never reoffended, and then to get thrown back in here … it’s cruel. I feel like I’m being made an example of.”
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