FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — An unassuming tan building, surrounded by trees, sits near the corner of Spring Street and College Avenue in Fayetteville.
It may not look like much on the outside but inside the Northwest Arkansas Community Corrections Center, women’s lives are changing.
“It’s priceless,” Kachia Phillips said. “That time in there for me was precious.”
Phillips is a Fayetteville resident who currently works for Goodwill as a reentry program specialist. But in 2015, she was sentenced to serve time in the NWACCC.
“I was trafficked here in Northwest Arkansas for 22 years,” she said. “It landed me with some drug charges and I ended up in the women’s prison. I was very unsure and nervous when I came in. I didn’t know what to expect I had been formerly incarcerated in Pine Bluff a couple of times and which was a little traumatic. “
When she went into …