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In the spring of 2022, Tydricka Lewis finally bought a car that started every time she asked it to and no longer left her stranded.
Her 2020 Nissan Rogue was essential to her new job as a peer-support specialist — helping people in mental-health crises required her to be able to get places reliably and fast. And it was essential to her new life outside prison, where she'd spent six years and four months for chasing fraudulent checks.