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I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.