Judy Williams is an inmate at Maryland Women's Prison. She was imprisoned for murder, possibly for life. In the early years of her sentence, Judy blamed her crime on her "crappy childhood", but while volunteering for a prison program, helping to train seeing-eye dogs, she suddenly felt remorse for the terrible thing she had done: killing an innocent person who had done nothing to her. This self-realization was, as she confessed to Timothy McGee, a "mixed blessing." It made her more serene about her daily life, but also made her depressed and fatalistic. As she said to McGee, she looked forward to her own death, so she could find the soul of her victim and say how sorry she was.