Steven Dozier - Reformed?

Look, I’m not political. I recognize that I don’t get the huge issues that politics offer to me. I rely on my husband and my mother to point me in the right direction. This is what I can tell you. Please, understand, I have men who are so beyond the pale of saving that they just scare me. I can’t imagine letting them lose back on society. I certainly don’t want them in my back yard.

But in a Level 1 security prison, this is a surprisingly small group. Most, many, some of these guys are just trying to find the same road to happiness we are. Some of them have done appalling things, most in the name of their favorite drug. They have been raised in circumstances that many of us, who cruise the Internet, cannot imagine. Environments where they are only a burden, where they are despised for the financial toll they bring, where they are the weakest and most vulnerable prey. And yet, after decades of abuse, after numerous incarcerations, they wish for something better, something safe.

Can you imagine growing up where you have nothing safe?

Nobody who loves you unconditionally, nowhere to go where you are not a target, no place to grow your soul, your shiny bit?

And yet, I’ve met more men that I would have guessed who have made the transition.

NPR - Steven Dozier

Unless I am once again being sucked into that which I want to beleive.

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