The interviewee discusses how difficult the trial process and period was and his refusal to take a deal.

The interviewee describes how he lost everything when he went to prison and how his life and identity became a blank canvas.

The interviewee discusses the emotions he feels about his life sentence crime.

The interviewee describes his internal struggle to understand what to do after stumbling upon a crime scene.

The interviewee discusses his first time being locked up as a 12 year old and how scary that is.

The interviewee describes how he used negative coping patterns to survive prison and how he was able to change that.

The interviewee discusses some of his challenges and successes around learning to feel and show his emotions again.

The interviewee describes establishing status in prison and not getting caught.

The interviewee talks about how he isolated himself from everyone after running away from home.

The interviewee describes his trial experience and they heavy weight and stress of it all.

The interviewee describes how he turned into an angry man to cope with his reality.

The interviewee discusses his experience before the parole board.

The interviewee talks about how he saw gates and bars everywhere, which affected him and everyone else, and how the community has been taken away from Black people.

Interviewee shares his turning point in prison. Witnessing other individuals who were incarcerated taking their own lives he chose to make life changes that supported his recovery.

The interviewee speaks on how important it is to have family support because he says that he didn’t have that while growing up which made him look for it somewhere else.

The interviewee tells a bit of his home as a child as well as his family dynamic. He also speaks a bit of how he turned Pro in boxing.

The interviewee speaks on the loss of his son and his son’s mother and how the pain he felt will always be there no matter if he goes to therapy or not.

The interviewee describes having a dream where he is enveloped in light and told he can be healed and forgiven if he puts in the work. He realizes that his traumatic childhood is connected to his actions later in life.

The interviewee recalls his girlfriend cheating on him with his best friend shortly after the passing of his stepfather.

The interviewee describes his battle against alcoholism and the events that lead up to his life crime.

Interviewee shares about his experience losing his grandfather at a young age.

Interviewee discusses his first time in prison and his experience in county jail.

The interviewee describes the fear he felt going into prison and the sorrow he felt having to leave his family. He describes what things were like in prison.

The interviewee describes some of his challenges around turning his life around on the inside, the loss of his family members, and not receiving proper mental health care.

The interviewee describes the lack of proper medical care he received in prison and how it affected his physical and mental health.

The interviewee describes how siblings experienced community violence and incarceration, as well as the circumstances around one of his sisters’ death.

The interviewee describes an attempted abduction by a white man in the Jim Crow south and his desire to move away.

The interviewee describes the numbness and fear he felt after receiving a life sentence and entering prison for the first time at a young age.

The interviewee discusses some of the struggles he faced in the United States being a child of immigrants. His parents had to work multiple jobs and were rarely home.

The interviewee describes his experiences of being a refugee at a young age and feeling an overwhelming sense of rejection from society.

The interviewee describes some of his mental health challenges inside including addiction to cope with stress and the over-medication he received from the medical department.

The interviewee discusses experiencing PTSD symptoms after his decades in prison.