Evaristo Salas Jr.

Like I said, call me anytime, any questions.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, and I'm in actual much, this is my childhood room right here that I was in when I went to prison, you know what I mean?

Well, my name is Elristo Salas Jr.

I was a...

Convicted or wrongly convicted of first degree premeditated murder when I was 15 years old.

And I was sentenced to 32 years, nine months.

I've been incarcerated for about 26 years and six months.

I'm going to be 42 on the 17th of December.

So in about a week, a week and a half, I'll be 42.

I had the option of actually going to the county jail and having the hearing there.

But I opted for being in the prison because to leave the prison with

Take away my opportunity and my job.

I might not get it back if I come back to prison or when I get back from the courts.

And the cell that I was in, too, the room that I was in, I could lose that in the process of going to the county jail.

Not to mention the trip over there.

So it was just a big hassle.

So I opted to actually stay in the prison and do the Zoom because it was just simply more easier for me.

Yeah.

But that first day I went, I had some anxiety, but I just pictured it would be me kind of listening to the people that I haven't seen for a number of years, two decades.