Monica Cosby: 'When all of your choices are bad, then you really don’t have any. … Freedom is having good choices.'

Monica Cosby remembers all their first names: Guin and Sandra and Roberta and Laura. Nia, too. And Angie.

They are the women Cosby, 49, left behind in the Illinois Department of Corrections two and a half years ago after spending 20 years in prison for a murder she declined to discuss. They are...