she's spent several months representing elsie hodge who was at one point facing 23 years in prison for a drug offense. >> elsie's been in and out of jail and prison for the last decade of her life - all for minor drug related crimes. this time she was arrested for allegedly selling prescription pills. >> when i asked, what why did you let the buyer of these pills, supposedly, this white male in his 50s, go and let you arrested miss hodge, who was actually around the corner. and he said it's under it's to the officer's individual discretion and judgment. >> every time he sees me he wants to bother me. and i don't have to be doing anything. the justification has always been well she is a, she is a nuisance to the community. and in fact the district attorney said that. that, the tenderloin neighborhood, san francisco doesn't need miss hodge on the street. i have seen people commit crimes of plead or get convicted of crimes of violence who do way less time than her. >> elsie's path to drug abuse is depressingly familiar to many inside women's jails and prisons. she had been in an abusive r