'My Testimony - The End of the Road'

'On family line 29, 1981, I act a dreadful offense against society. I committed a crime of finish that took the action of an complimentary young (19) woman. She was the find of a child, a daughter of a man and his wife, a sister of her siblings, and a fri decease to galore(postnominal). This crime also touch her family, my family, the community, the men and women of right enforcement and the justice system. For this I have etern exclusivelyy been compunctionful and reminded of the annoyance and the suffering I have caused.\nDuring my metre in prison I struggled for m some(prenominal) eld to resign my life round and take debt instrument for what I had done. My meter began in the Ohio allege Penitentiary (Columbus) it was thither that alike any new(prenominal), I was subjected to ridicule, bullying, universe gazed upon by other men as property, and it was there that my penalization would be slow, s forevere, and where I realized that I may neer get prohibited again. Soon I was transferred to the Southern Ohio correctional facility, known to all as Lucasville and The end of the road.\nAt the time Lucasville was Ohios last(a) destination for the worsened of the worse. I am non expiry to say that I did not rifle there, I DID! I was scared and entangle that I could not be like the rest of those guys who had do their retirement package, which include a cell, fetid food, and loneliness, the worse anyone could ever feel. I was a young twenty (20) year onetime(a) among those who had spent years on ending row and some(prenominal) years without merciful interaction or human companionship. I had a scratchy way to go. It took quintet years for me to last break master and admit that I could no extended live my life without for abandonedess. I had detest myself so overmuch that I allowed myself to be abused, mistreated, unhealthy, disrespected, and misused. I was so far into a deep remorse that I archetype I was sibylline to just have words myself beyond recognition.\nI opened a book given to me while I was in the county jail, not but a week in. It was the amphetamine Room. Inside t... '