When Fernando came across a Bible a few weeks into his incarceration, he angrily kicked it across the room. The Bible was never part of Fernando’s early life. Abused by a family member when he was four years old, he grew up with twisted ideas of right and wrong, which...
Solomon’s earliest memory is stopping his father from strangling his mother to death. He was three and a half years old. He managed to distract his father long enough to allow his mother to flee to a neighbor’s house and call the police. However, his father was...
“Thank goodness he’s dead. Now I don’t have to forgive that man.” The thought popped into Douglas’s head the moment he heard about the death of the man who had killed his mother. Douglas had harbored spite and hatred toward this man since he was four years old, the...
As a young man, Mervin was on a constant search for more stuff. He accumulated as many possessions as he could, believing that it would bring him happiness. But no matter how hard Mervin tried to find satisfaction in the things he bought, nothing seemed to work. “I...
Josiah wanted revenge. After multiple stints in prison earlier in his life, he had found himself behind bars again because his fiancée had called the police to report the crime. “I hated her,” Josiah says. “I asked my brother to post bail so I could seek vengeance...
