CLAY COUNTY – Tayler Harber was a model student at Orange Park High.
Less than a year later after graduating in 2016, though, she committed a felony that would change the rest of her life. Unwilling to let an armed robbery charge take over her life – no matter how hard her past tried to affect her future – Harber turned her story into a platform for advocacy, support and change. Just months after creating it, her TikTok has more than one million followers, and it’s there that she makes frequent posts about what she endured behind bars, the kind of change Florida prisons need for women and how one careless decision doesn’t have to be the end-all-be-all society can make it out to be.
“I can’t complain about my childhood; it was decent,” Harber said. “I did sports my entire life and I was a tri-state athlete. Sports are what kept me going and they’re what motivated me to do good in schools. I made As and Bs and I graduated in 2016.”
A model student and school athlete her entire life, things began to change her senior year. But when she was a senior, she couldn’t play anymore. Because sports kept her motivated in the classroom, her scholastic performance began to wane, but she graduated in 2016 despite all of that. She was in her own apartment two months later, working full-time, and “on top of the world,” as any 18-year-old fresh out of high school feels.
Less than a couple of months into her Wells Road apartment, she met people who would later become her co-defendants in an...
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