Evaristo Salas Jr.

Well, I'll make a way.

It was just always, whenever something was thrown at me, it was like, I'll find a way to do this or do that.

And what's strange about that is you don't see that mentality out here.

You see it completely different.

It seems to me, I'm not saying that it was easy because there were struggles, but it's not as hard as most people kind of

say it is, even with my family that are around me.

It just requires a certain amount of determination.

And I guess that stems from being in a place where the wall is pretty big.

To get over that wall takes sometimes years.

And when you dealt with that kind of struggle over and over, you come out here and everything's just a speed bump compared to the wall.

Yeah, actually, I'm going to touch with a few of them.

I actually got a hold of, I think it was a reentry specialist out of Olympia.

They got a hold of me, actually.

And we kind of set it up where I can actually go back to the prison and speak or the prison I was in for eight years at Erwin Hines.

If I go back there and actually teach or facilitate one of the classes I used to teach already, which is redemption.

they're open to it.

They say, yeah, you know, just, uh, but there, I know, so I know that all the higher ups at Arrow Heights, I know all the associate superintendents, um, the, the CUS because I work with all them building, uh, the classes within there.

And so, um,

Being that my situation was so unique, me getting out, that pretty much ended everything that had to do with D.O.C.

I don't have a permanent record, besides what I had years ago.