‘Thrown back in jail – it’s cruel’: why was actor Amy Locane imprisoned twice for the same crime?

Convicted of killing a woman while drink-driving, Locane served her time and spent the next five years as a model citizen, facing up to her crime and trying to stop others from following in her footsteps. Then she was locked up again for the same offence ...

Amy Locane is struggling to make sense of it all. The actor and mother of two children knows she committed a crime with devastating consequences, so she accepted it when she pretty much lost everything as a result - doing her time in jail uncomplainingly. The one thing she can't accept is that, after being released and living in the community for five years as a model citizen, she is back in prison for the same crime. It is a situation that one legal expert described as unheard of".

In September 2020, Locane was re-sentenced to eight years in jail. I'm not really sure what's going on," she tells me from the Edna Mahan correctional facility for women. I walk around in a daze. It's really messing with my mind. I never violated any rules. I never reoffended, and then to get thrown back in here ... it's cruel. I feel like I'm being made an example of."