# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Thirty-Nine — Lila's Release
Vance told her on a Wednesday.
A brief text between meetings: *Lila Bennett was released from custody this morning. Twenty-two months. Good behavior and completed programming. She's been transferred to Houston for supervised release.*
Mia read it in her car between school and a charter site visit. She sat with it for a moment. Then she drove to the site visit.
The charter school was in East Austin — one of the ten in the September cohort, a K-8 that served a neighborhood where half the students were learning English as a second language and a third were reading below grade level at intake. The principal was a woman named Sandra who had been waiting for the Thompson-Hayes platform since January and had written Mia
