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...
by Amy Cain | May 9, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
Another day, another transfer. In his twenty-fifth year of incarceration, Dwayne was used to being moved from prison to prison, but that didn’t make it any easier. “I was in my lowest point in my twenty-five years in prison—no mail, no one who cared if I lived or...
by Amy Cain | Mar 15, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
Sitting in a prison cell, all Terrill could do was question why he was there. He’d had a pretty good childhood. His mother had taught him about God and brought him to church and Sunday school every week. He met a wonderful woman and they had three sons together....
