“I WAS NEVER in trouble and I don’t even understand why I went [to prison]… The judge looks at you in a different way. They think that when they see a Traveller, that they’re going to be always in trouble.”
Kathleen Wilde served her full sentence of six months in prison a number of years ago for an offence that she told Noteworthy the person she was with at the time committed.
“I never touched anything. I was still blamed for it because I was there. Even though they had nothing on me, I still got jail.”
Looking back, Wilde said she was “never in trouble” and doesn’t understand why she even ended up in prison. She left that judges “look at you in a different way”, thinking that Travellers are “going to be always in trouble”.
