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A St. Louis Black woman who served time for speeding could be going back to jail for six months.

Precious Jones, 34, was driving to her sister’s home in Kansas City, Missouri in May of 2017. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Jones was on Interstate 70 when she was pulled over for driving 120 mph and received a $120 ticket. She was given a court date to appear in Lafayette County but Jones missed her hearing.

Jones missed her hearing.”It slipped my mind,” she told the Post-Dispatch.

Then Jones turned herself in and paid the bond on the outstanding warrant and called the court to reschedule a court date. She then enrolled in a driver education class and started community service.

Precious Jones agreed to do 20 days in jail on weekends for speeding—she was late to jail once, another time she missed jail because her car broke down. Now she's facing a six month jail sentence. "I'm losing everything. They keep coming back for more." https://t.co/reGhJrhXhR — Ethan Brown (@ethanbrown72) November 26, 2018

Jones proceeded to hire an attorney who told her if she agreed to pay a higher fine the points on the speeding ticket wouldn’t be a mark against her driver’s license. In May of this year, Jones pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for speeding at least 26 mph over the speed limit.

Jones was sentenced to six months and given two years probation. The jail sentence would be annulled if Jones did 20 days “shock time” in jail on consecutive weekends the Post-Dispatch reported.

The conviction meant her license was suspended so Jones asked friends and family for rides to the Lafayette County Jail, which is more than a three-hour drive from St. Louis.

In July, Jones finished her sentence and thought this chapter of her life was finally over, but this was not the case. In June her car broke down on the way to jail. Although she did call the Lafayette County jail and informed them of the situation and the next day she arrived to serve her full two-day sentence. However, prosecutor Kristen Hilbrenner did not think this was enough and wanted to revoke Jones’ probation and sentence her to six months in jail.

Now Jones has a warrant out for her arrest with a $2,500 bond.

Jones has now contacted NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union in hopes to bring attention to her case and relinquish her from the 6-month jail sentence.

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