But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
My education was an education by movies.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
I definitely had a top-notch education.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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