Deborah Jiang-Stein Was Born In Prison—Now She Helps Incarcerated Women Get Education

How the activist and L'Oréal Women of Worth honoree launched the unPrison project.

Deborah Jiang-Stein’s early years were marred with uncertainty. She always knew she was adopted, but the details surrounding her birth were left a mystery. That is, until curiosity got the best of the adoptee, who eventually stumbled upon a shocking letter from her adoptive mother when she was 12 years old. Her birth mother requested that her birth certificate to be altered, so that she wouldn't have any knowledge that she was born in a Virginia prison to a heroin-addicted mother.

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May 18, 2018 at 02:00AM