and it has kept her revolving through prison and jail for the past nine years. >> i just kept getting busted, thinking, well, i'm cool. i've got this under wraps. i own this drug. it's not doing me. i'm doing it. i was way off. >> butcher's latest probation violation occurred when she failed a drug test. she could be facing up to 16 months in prison, but that will be up to a judge to decide during an upcoming hearing. >> i'm trying to find a program that will take me, see if i can write a whole bunch and get a response by friday. >> butcher hopes to convince the judge to let her try a drug rehabilitation program instead of prison. >> i don't want to go to prison. that's the easy way out. you know, six months of doing nothing, no programming, not doing anything, just sitting around, let the state take care of me. program's hard. probation's hard. and they say -- i got some good advice from a friend saying anything's worth it -- is worth trying, right? so i'm going to do that route instead of -- because i have kids that need me. i need to be with them, you know. this ain't cool no more.