Lily Stone stood in her cell. Inside the largest women's prison of the state of Massachusetts, she was known as the Butch Brawler. All the other female inmates feared her, and with reason. This six-foot-two, 250-pound black woman was once a member of a ferocious gang from Dorchester. In the streets, she had a reputation as a fierce fighter and a deadly hustler. She and her crew controlled the drug trade from Dorchester to Roxbury, around Mattapan and also parts of South Boston. This was a whole lot of territory but these fierce street thugs ruled it.
Back in the day, nobody messed with Lily. Unfortunately for her, she crossed the line one too many times. Most of her gang had been either shot or arrested by the Boston police department, as ordered by the governor during an election year. Of the two hundred members of the gang, ninety percent of them went down. The district attorney, a woman named Jennifer Graham was a driven and ruthless politician who made a career out of messing up the thugs and bitches from the hood.
Lily watched her friends go to prison. Young men and women that she had known forever. They were her crew. They were her blood. She even lost Ricardo, the young man she had loved. Ricardo was a tall, caramel-skinned dude with honey-colored hair and sparkling brown eyes. He was a beautiful young man. When they met, Lily was a rising gang leader and he was the social worker trying to lead her and some of her friends away from their life of crime.
When the district attorney came after Lily, she suspected that Ricardo knew many members of the gang and approached him so that he could testify against them. Ricardo refused. The district attorney brought up some charges against him. Ricardo didn't go to jail. Some crooked cop killed him to keep him quiet. The young social worker knew about many corrupt cops in the department. He was going to blow the whistle on a whole lot of them. That's why he was shot. Angered at the loss of the man she loved, Lily swore vengeance.
Lily walked into the office of the district attorney and shot the bitch twice in the head. From that moment on, the world would never be the same. A black female gangster had killed a prominent district attorney. The law enforcement community was terrified. A massive manhunt was organized to catch the woman who had committed this grievous offense. Lily was captured, Tried and convicted. She was now serving three consecutive life sentences at Massachusetts's largest women's correctional facility. All without the possibility of parole.
While in the slammer, Lily was targeted by both the guards and the female inmates. She'd been a brawler all of her life, so she did what she did best. She fought back. Her reputation inside the women's prison grew. Everyone feared her. They called her the Butch Brawler. The prison subculture was at her feat. Nobody messed with her. There were many cliques inside the jail system. The women criminals were more vicious than the men. They were ruthless and cruel. They had no code of conduct, unlike the most ruthless of male inmates. They terrified the guards, and each other.
Only Lily got respect in this place. Once, there was this tough bitch named Ramona who tried to mess with Lily. Ramona was a tall, large Hispanic woman with a shaved head and a scar on her face. She had been sentenced to twenty years for murder. Inside the jail, everyone feared her. Lily didn't. When Ramona provoked her into a brawl, Lily unleashed the cold fury that she kept carefully locked inside. She beat Ramona to a bloody pulp, and broke both her arms, in order to teach her a lesson. Since that day, nobody messed with Lily. That's where the nickname Butch Brawler came from.