My life started out rough.  While in the hospital I was taken away from my parents, by child protective.  I spent the next 4 years in three different foster homes in Canandaigua.  At age 4 I was sat before a judge and asked if I wanted to live with my parents.  Any child at that age would say yes to that question.  I was then sent to live with my parents before age 5 I was witness to my father breaking my mothers nose.  My father had a real problem with beating women.  He never beat or even spanked me.  He got me high plenty of times before I went to school.  My mother spanked me as a young child but not really abused me.  My father and mother split when my father accidentally pulled hair out of my head. 
       &a ...

In the South- discrimination, bigotry and injustice were obvious and were faced in many forms.  The Colonial Laws and the system had diriment standards for my People.  I was living in Americus, Ga. 9 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's house (Town Of Plains, Ga.)
 
(1.) The Emancipation Proclamation had no effect profoundly on our suffering (of 1863), but supposedly liberated us from bondage.  That was 100 years before I was locked in the Georgia Stockade, and yet the Constitution read one thing-but society showed another.
 
(2.)  We were struggling in a two fold circle, a twice burdened people.
    (A.)  Was the color of our skin.
    (B.)  We were at the lowest stratum in society.
 
Socially, politically and economically speaking, making us feel like a seco ...

Geeky kid, unpopular, got into drugs in my teens, wasted alot of time, the usual story. Talked about suicide for years until I tried it. Not all it's cracked up to be, but one good thing came from it. I found God. I guess I always knew where to look if I wasn't running so fast in the other direction. After 36 years of hurting everyone around me while I tried to hurt myself I finally took a good look around and realized - WOW- what a jerk I was. I've known the Lord for 8 years now and wish I had found him sooner! I decided to call myself The Searcher beacuse I'm still looking for God's perfect will for my life. In the meantime, I'll do what I can to prevent others in the same rut as the one I tread for years from making the same mistakes. I have a wonderful, loving wife, a caring family and a Savior that gave his life for me, what more could a guy want. If you feel that you could use the help of a self-proclaimed "old ...

My name is Jennifer. I am a 19 year old college student in New York. I am an only child, adopted at a very young age and I am blessed with an amazing family.

I enjoy arts and crafts more than anything. I am also crazy about animals!! I would love to work with them but I think it was take way too many biology classes then I could handle. So I'm going to major in psychology. I have always been interested in psychology, especially on the biological level.

I like to think of myself as a good listener and a good advice giver. I have been through many trying situations in my life, but have pulled though, and am now much stronger for them. The one good thing about going through rough times is being able to help others get through them.

I wasn't what you call a bad guy.  I was active in my church and sincere about what I was doing...but that didn't mean that I still didn't have things that I wanted to do or to have that went against what I knew to be right.

By being selfish, by putting what I wanted ahead of everything else, I earned myself five years upstate as the property of the New York State Department of Corrections.  As if that wasn't hard enough to handle, I also hurt every single person that was important to me, including my wife (who has since divorced me), my kids and all the people I had sincerely told about God's love and his ability to change lives.

Now I sit in prison. Daily I deal with the consequences of what I've done. Consequences that will, in many lives, continue through the rest of my life.