Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.