I Turned My Life Around Thanks to Allah, Learning to Read, and Dr. Booker

My name is Carlos Marcell Jackson. I was incarcerated when I was 21 years old for aiding and abetting a murder. I’m now 39; I’ve been in federal prison 18 years. A staff member in one of the prisons told me once that I could have done something with my life, and I often think about what my alternative might have been. But I came up with nothing. I never had the freedom to be a kid. My friends and the older dudes I looked up to were all on the streets; there’s not one I can recall making something productive out of their lives. They just cycled in and out of jail; most of them are dead today. Some of my best friends were killed right in front of me. My uncle was killed when his buddy shot him two times in the head in a dispute over $30. I was 10 or 11 at the time and I was in the back seat of his car when it happened. In fact, by that age, I knew more about guns and drugs than school. During my childhood, I was shot a total of five times myself. <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/i-turned-my-life-around-thanks-to-allah-learning-to-read-and-dr-booker-8efc732e995c">Click Here</a>