Tahlia Isaac

Awesome.

Thanks, Gary.

Thank you.

I haven't watched it, so it makes one of us.

I had a script, but I can't remember most of it.

Yeah, I never in my wildest dreams thought, not even before The Watch House, would think that that would be my future reality.

But yeah, it was pretty cool to be like the first formerly incarcerated woman to take that stage and say the things that I wanted to say.

And it was received so well.

Like it was just, I didn't, I expected to have...

Some pushback, you know, when we're talking about justice and we're talking about prisons and there's inflated like tensions around the topic, you know, in the media and the public perception and social media, you always kind of expect that someone's going to push back and say something.

Yeah.

Or they love to say, do the crime, do the time.

It's consistent.

Yeah.

But I didn't get any of that.

And I did expect it.

I think I had one person message and it wasn't really coherent.

So it was, you know, just like the most loveliest message that we received and that I received and so much support and love and kindness, which was really great.

I think the message I wanted to deliver was that the justice system in its current form is ineffective for everyone.

And as from the perspective of a woman who's both been a victim and a perpetrator of, you know, offenses, I bring that unique perspective in terms of saying it doesn't work for victims.