I'm the Black 72-year-old former nurse who spent 3 months in a Minnesota jail for assaulting a white coworker. This is what it was like.

Sybil Garbow with her husband, Michael.

Emily Baxter.

• Sybil Garbow, 72, was jailed in Minnesota following an assault conviction that she wants to appeal.
• The jail was a minimum security facility, but Garbow said it was still difficult for her.
• Now that she's out of jail, Garbow is considering appealing her verdict.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sybil Garbow, a 72-year-old Black woman who was jailed this year in Anoka, Minnesota for assaulting a white coworker.