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Mike G., 28
“Today after a lot of healing and participation in self-help groups, I finally feel free.”
Johnnie, 41
I’ve made it through the years, I’ve lost family and friends.
Warren, 58
Coming back to San Quentin in 2019 was surreal. My first [and only previous] time home was in 1981.
Guillermo, 31
“Am I eternally scum because I have an inmate number to identify me behind enemy lines? Is all the good that I do, wasted because I am incarcerated?”
Milton “Tone”, 29
My family isn’t perfect by any means. But I’ll take precious over perfection anytime.
Dennis, 39
“I learned a different way to communicate and worked on becoming the person others could come to for help. The person I always wished I had in my life when I was a boy. I strive to be better.”
Carl, 57
“It was hard for you to navigate the intricate dynamics of relationships on all levels. From the earliest days there was no way that you could form the importance of trust, empathy, confidence in self and so forth”
Tariq, 44
“As a prisoner, I lost control a long time ago. Now with every fleeting year, I am like an astronaut who lost his tether and broke off from the space station.”
Fredrick, 53
Inmates because of their incarceration, have lost the favor of being a citizen. Many people believe that anyone in prison is the “worst of the worst” and thus deserves any hardships they receive.
EDDIE, 46
It was September 15th, 2021. I was sent to AD-SEG for a P.R.E.A. investigation. The word of a transgender-woman put me in shackles, yet when her story changed to my benefit, those facts went unreported.
Albert, 57
“I’m often asked, how can I smile so much when I’m on death row for a crime I didn’t do and so I tell them: it’s my faith in Jesus.”