I received a letter recently from an inmate in a nearby correctional institution saying how he and other inmates read The Daily Reflector most days and wondered if maybe we could “find some space to publish his words.”

Here are some of them:

“Sometimes in our lives we make terrible choices and these choices place us in the custody of the Department of Corrections. Currently my home for the next 120 days. However, although an inmate I’m still grateful and full of gratitude for life’s gifts.”

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