January 15, 2019
January 15, 2019
On the 22nd a group of us formerly incarcerated will be
headed to the state capitol for ASFC’s #Reframingjusticeday. We actually have a shot at making some real change in the justice system. I’ve been chosen to tell my story at the press conference and I’ll be introduced by Piper Kerman, who wrote Orange Is The New Black. On top of that, I have an interview with a writer from the Arizona Daily Star on Thursday, about the Reframing Justice Day.
I’m kind of freaking out because less than two months ago I was sitting in a cell, hoping I would have enough money to buy a cell phone when I got out. Now I’m practicing a speech that I have to deliver to a group legislators and a phalanx of reporters with news cameras. It’s quite the change, I’ll tell you that. My story, the one I’ll be telling at the press conference, is not one I’m proud of, but its real. The only thing that’s keeping me from shitting in my pants is that we have a real shot at helping a lot of people. I remember how hopeless I felt when I had all that time ahead of me, how much I just wanted to give up, and how it’s wasn’t until i was almost done with my sentence that I found the motivation to change. If we pass this bill then it will be giving tens of thousands hope.
On the 22nd a group of us formerly incarcerated will be
headed to the state capitol for ASFC’s #Reframingjusticeday. We actually have a shot at making some real change in the justice system. I’ve been chosen to tell my story at the press conference and I’ll be introduced by Piper Kerman, who wrote Orange Is The New Black. On top of that, I have an interview with a writer from the Arizona Daily Star on Thursday, about the Reframing Justice Day.
I’m kind of freaking out because less than two months ago I was sitting in a cell, hoping I would have enough money to buy a cell phone when I got out. Now I’m practicing a speech that I have to deliver to a group legislators and a phalanx of reporters with news cameras. It’s quite the change, I’ll tell you that. My story, the one I’ll be telling at the press conference, is not one I’m proud of, but its real. The only thing that’s keeping me from shitting in my pants is that we have a real shot at helping a lot of people. I remember how hopeless I felt when I had all that time ahead of me, how much I just wanted to give up, and how it’s wasn’t until i was almost done with my sentence that I found the motivation to change. If we pass this bill then it will be giving tens of thousands hope.
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