Evaristo Salas Jr.

And then I got Internet for Dummies, and then I got social media marketing for Dummies.

That's the way I have to learn everything because I literally have no access at all to any of that stuff.

to working in the office as a clerk, as an inventory clerk.

So they gave me access to the newer programs, you know, Word and Excel, those kind of things, and then other programs that we're doing.

I had to learn that on-the-job kind of experience.

I had books on the side that I would read.

Other people would help me.

And then they had programs years ago at Walla Walla, like Photoshop, you know, Illustrator.

I tried to take those as much as I could, but the problem with that is that in Washington State Penitentiary, there's so much lockdowns and riots and stabbings.

You can't

function because you're always on lockdown i mean these are 30 day lockdown 40 day lockdowns they do sweeps take people to the hole and it's just it's just you can't really function under that mostly everything came from books every single thing i i've learned about out there it came from books you know so so you've read a lot since you've been incarcerated yeah i mean i i got a love for reading you know i mean like no other you know i got an appetite for

I studied, like, Western philosophy.

I just love philosophy.

And then I went off from Western philosophy to, you know, religion, the whole history of religion, you know, the beginning of Christianity all the way up.

And then I read a little bit of Islamic history.

and then Buddhist.

And I read like, I spent like two or three years just reading, studying Buddhist books and Samurais and Eastern culture.

And it was just a beautiful culture.

And then I kind of just bounced around and just, you know, uh, read a lot of wisdom books and I loved it.

I'm strange because I was the type of person that would love to just read a textbook.