In the fall of 2007, Dora was imprisoned for violating her probation by shoplifting from a Walgreens to support her drug habit. She was held for 50 days at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay. She was miserable behind bars, but she was also sober, and missing church, missing people, missing cooking.

"I wasn't raised to steal, lie and cheat, you know what I'm saying, but I let the devil, which is the drugs, take control of my true aspects, and wear me down,'' she said in a prison interview. "The miracle is that I'm still alive, and my faith is stronger than ever."