Evaristo Salas Jr.

And he's been down for 30 years too.

Good dude.

And he was just, I mean, he was so happy.

I got ahold of him.

He was just like that.

And, you know, I just, you know, we've talked about, cause we sweat, we went to sweat lodge together and we spent about five, six years right there in the same institution together.

And so he was just so happy and overjoyed about it.

It gave them all hope to a certain extent.

We used to sit around and talk all the time and we were all part of the, the,

kind of the core of the individual.

They're building all these self-awareness classes and trying to, you know, get the inmates to kind of think different because we were that too, you know.

And we would talk about it.

We'd be like, oh, you know, when we get out, we can do this.

When we get out of prison, we can do that.

And we'd see people get out left and right.

And we'd be like, man, if we just had the opportunity, if one of us could just make it out there, you know, that would just give so much joy to the rest of us.

And out of that kind of core group of lifers and all that, there's been another one I got out.

It's just brought a lot of hope to all the rest of them.

And so, yeah, I try to send them pictures.

I already know what brings joy to their hearts and everything, because I remember being in prison.