It was my mother’s birthday, May 27, 2023, when someone carelessly opened fire in a gas station in Auburn Gresham at 79th and Ashland. After the smoke cleared, an elderly woman of 69—my cousin Gale Stephens—was found dead inside her car from a gunshot wound to her chest.  She had just droppe d her granddaughter off […] The post Between justice and the reality of incarceration appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less