Evaristo Salas Jr.

but if that doesn't happen, I have to go through this process of getting out.

It's going to be really kind of hard out there for me, you know, and that's why I'm trying to do the best I can to position myself so that I'm not stuck in this box where I can't get a job or do this.

Lucky, luckily for Washington, well, Washington state is a pretty liberal state.

So they have a lot of programs that will help, you know, ex-felons or felons.

And that's why I'm heading to Seattle because, uh, the innocent projects that they'll set up with the job, uh,

I did a lot of programs here in the main.

I facilitated classes on different self-awareness programs, trying to help the inmate population.

I built programs.

Right now I'm actually developing a gang intervention class with two other guys, and we're trying to set that up within the prison and then kind of transition it when I get out and start living out there.

So I want to kind of, when I get out, get into that kind of field, and the Innocence Project already has a branch of theirs, like reentry and everything, that kind of deals with that kind of stuff.

But first, I'll have to probably start from the bottom.

I told him I don't care what job I get.

I'll clean toilets.

I don't care.

I just need something to start with so I can get established, and then I can work up towards my goals, which is not going to be easy.

It's going to be very hard, but I got it.

I can do it, though.

Yeah, I told my fiance one time, I said, when you've dealt with the things I've dealt with, you know, everything else seems pretty simple after that because I realized what level of existence I can actually live and survive.

So out there, even though if I'm struggling mentally, I can make it because, you know, the things I've been through, so.

I wasn't allowed to actually be present or be a part of it, but I was able to see it, to watch it.