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Khiem, 41
“Food is the most important tool to connect me to my feelings and memories and to help me with my loneliness.”
Lyle, 45
Within a few months the classes on death row were eliminated. The rehabilitative ideal was purged. Central Prison became an increasingly violent place.
Taki, 45
I am struggling to receive love because it falls way short of what defines love for me. This is where hard work and growth meet.
Selena, 28
I felt like I wasn’t allowed to have human emotions simply because I was a prisoner. My solution to this was attempting suicide.
Ramon, 63
The life of a death-row prisoner is harsh, restrictive, isolated, and lonely. So moving out into the mainline environment after 24 years of death row continues to shock and amaze me, most so because I had never been to prison before so I never knew what mainline had to offer.
Bindhu, 43
My great aunt in her eighties wrote back with so much love and information about my family. We wrote back and forth several times, and she had a mind like an elephant.
Marcus, 23
Memories will always last whether it’s of a past experience or just meeting someone you like.
Jimmy, 61
The thing I miss more than anything being on the outside is being able to help people who are unable to help themselves. Those types of people were my family.
Vasil, 43
I was heavily abused and neglected both physically and mentally as a child. I was also forced to use drugs and alcohol by my siblings and their friends.
Adrien, 29
Make peace with the parts of your life. Making peace makes life easier.
Verne, 70
I have stabbed five or six people and immediately after each one, I felt no guilt or remorse, almost as if I were a psychopath or a person not conscious of wrong or right.