Never eat the candy on your pillow: Freedom, fear, and the future

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Freedom, fear, and the future

Dear Reader, Waking up in prison each day is a horrible experience, one that tests a person’s very reasons for living. Many incarcerated people only find the will to wake up each morning because it moves them closer to the day their prison sentence will come to an end.  Some might argue that this is hardly living—and for the more than 97,000 people serving life with the possibility of parole, the day they are waiting for may never come. For thes…