by Amy Cain | Oct 1, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
Erik gripped the wheel, his mind racing, and willed himself to continue driving. His destination: the police station. He had decided to turn himself in. “I was so embarrassed and ashamed of myself,” Erik recalls. “The whole drive to the police station, I thought about...
by Amy Cain | Jul 31, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
“My life is awesome!” This is not a statement you would expect from someone who is serving a twenty-five-year prison sentence and has been isolated in solitary confinement for the past year and a half. But it is exactly what Crossroads student Buddy wrote in his...
by Amy Cain | Jun 6, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
After cycling in and out of jail for half of his life, Ernesto had finally stopped the cycle—on the wrong side of the bars. “I received my life sentence at the age of twenty-five,” he says. “However, it did not stop me from my gang and criminal mentality.” This...
by Amy Cain | May 29, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
To some, high school is a place to learn new things and explore new hobbies. To others, it is a place to make friends and socialize. To Jason, it was a place to sell drugs. “By sixteen, I was an accomplished drug dealer, using school for my client base,” he says. “I...
by Amy Cain | May 17, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
Growing up in a Catholic family in the Philippines, Aprubertito served as an altar boy at his family’s church. But he abandoned the church after suffering abuse from one of the priests. “I was traumatized,” he remembers. “My relatives didn’t understand why I stopped...
