prison activist and author reverend vivian nixon, executive director of the college and community fellowship and co-found erer of the education inside-out coalition, and award winning journalist and executive producer and anchor of npr s latino usa. and joining us from skype is jason hernandez, one of the 89 people who received commutations from president obama. beyond the obvious, what does it mean to you to have had your sentence commuted? it basically means that i ve been born again. i was supposed to die in prison and it s a miracle, and i realize that. i m just making the most of it and trying to do everything that i can to try to make the president proud of me. so jason, still you served 20 years and you were only