Troubled Teen-Turned-Parole Agent Pays It Forward

Phyllis McNeal (R) stands with one of the many people she has helped turn from a life of crime and addiction, Donna Reed, through her program Straight Talk, based in Norco, Calif. Makenna Mullins for The Epoch Times

Before she was old enough to be called a “troubled teenager,” Phyllis McNeal was an alcoholic. She knew something was wrong. This wasn’t the life she wanted.

“I have a Ph.D. in being abused—physically, sexually, and psychologically,” she said.