What they really needed was help getting off drugs. 'But what they really needed were job training skills. 'They'll be there for a period of time, the charges will get thrown out, and they'll never get processed through the system,'В she said of the women she encountered. 'There was nothing happening while these women were behind bars that was going to help them make better decisions going forward,'В she said of her jail experience, admitting she saw 'not a darn thing'В being done to lower the rate of incarceration. She recalled that experience being her most memorable as a journalist, and possibly her most important. However, the circumstances involved in Norville going to jail were not typical.Д«ack in 2000, she spent a week incarcerated in a North Carolina jail -В not because she committed a crime, but for an Inside Edition segment. Read on to learn the untold truth of Deborah Norville.Д¬ount Deborah Norville among the celebrities to have spent time in the slammer. Through sheer talent and tenacity, she was able to overcome the obstacles fate threw in her path, making history to become the longest-serving anchor on U.S. Yet Norville has managed to overcome the controversy and backlash that nearly derailed her broadcasting career at an age when it should have been taking off.

However, NBC's botched handling of her arrival led her tenure on the show to be short-lived, and ultimately one of the most notorious missteps network television.

It didn't take Norville long to move from local to national television when she was hired by the iconic Todayshow. Her natural abilities in front of the camera did not go unnoticed, and she was subsequently tapped to be an anchor and reporter for Chicago'sВ WMAQ-TV. According to Norville's show bio, the native of Dalton, Georgia, began her broadcasting career at Atlanta's WAGA-TV while she was still a student at the University of Georgia. Since 1995, viewers have tuned in to watch Deborah Norville deliver a unique blend of news and entertainment as anchor of syndicated Inside Edition.

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