HUMANS OF SURRENDER
Inmate Stories

"I was one of the worst drug addicts. I just wanted to get high. I just wanted to feel the buzz. I started around 16 or 17. I ended up...

“She got pregnant, I was 16.  I had to step-up and be a man.  I left home, prematurely, to take care of her and a baby.   I was in his...

“I was so empty and devoid of love.  From the time I was five years old, I never felt loved.  I was molested as a little girl, not by my...

"I was in prison for 2 years. I had been arrested in 1998 for conspiracy to distribute. The sentence was supposed to be 5-20 years,...

“My very lowest rock bottom point of my life was when they kicked my front door and put an AR15 to my wife’s face. Meth has always been...

“The Judge said 'since you're doing life on the installment plan, here's your next installment of 50 to 60 months'. Hopelessness man,...

“Nobody cared. I was tossed out like a piece of paper out of a window. But there’s somebody that did care. I didn’t know it at the...

“I got my last strike for drugs and was getting ready to go do my 3-year prison time. I dropped out of school in the 9th grade. I don’t...

“This all happened within a week. The FBI was looking for me. My human trafficker went to prison. I was back on the street. I had...

“I’m a former Neo-Nazi skin head that learned how to hate. I created a gang called the Vinlander's Social Club. We started spreading...