so-and-so hitting the shot and the fact that gay teenagers can look up to jason collins and say, hey, that guy looks like me and he can hit the shot and he can fly through the air it makes you feel better about yourself. did i some stories with victor cruz, saying hey, the fact that young puerto recolleican kids ck out at his jersey, hey, my last name is cruz, my last name sounds like cruz, it gives people a sense what they can be. he certainly has to be applauded for taking this step, especially in a culture not always accepting. cyd, what else needs to happen now? should there be endorsement deals that come his way to kin of balance val date this and bolster the strength of this and it sence? what do you want to see next here? somebody asked me earlier to
my wife made this for me. she always tells me to stay true. that s the first three letters of my first name and first three letters of my last name. although stacey was sentenced to five years for an altercation with his neighbor, his good behavior at anamosa cut that time in half. i got through it with no write-ups and no loss of good time. my wife has never missed a visit. any time we have the opportunity to have visits, she has always been there. in just three days, his wife will visit with him again. only this time, he s going home with her. monday, i will be free to go anywhere i want to go, and i got tickets to see the minnesota twins play the kansas city royals thursday. fearing that he might become a target of other inmates jealous of his parole, he asked to spend his last three months in the protective custody unit.
in 1991, eddie lowery is paroled from prison. after serving nearly ten years behind bars for a rape he now says he didn t commit. lowery moves to kansas city, missouri. he gets a job at a ford motor plant on the assembly line. he marries teri and starts a new family. buys a house in the suburbs. but still, he s a man with a past. my prison number is 37839. i know it like my social security number. you know was known so long for that name. my first name was lowery. my last name was 37839. though lowery is out of prison, he s not free. in 1996, congress passes megan s law. it requires that the names and addresses of sex offenders be made available to the public.
time. for others, a simple x means they re one step closer to freedom. this helps a lot. i ve marked down my last 63 days. my wife made this for me. she always tell me to stay true. that s the first three letters of my first name and the first three letters of my last name. although stacy was sentenced to five years for an altercation with his neighbor, his good behavior at anamosa cut that time in half. i got through it with no writeups and no loss of good time. my wife has never missed visits. any time we have opportunity to have visits, she s always been there. in just three days, trauvillon s wife will visit with him again, only this time he s going home with her. monday i ll be free to go anywhere i want to go, and i got tickets to see the minnesota twins play the kansas city
i came into prison. and i ain t here to prove a point. i m just here to do my time. was it weird at first dealing with officers? did you run into people you knew? yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and using drugs and alcohol. and i messed up my life. as we continue to interview rapatz, we learn although this was his first conviction as an adult it was hardly his first brush with the law. i started stealing cars at a young age and breaking into schools. i broke into my junior high and my high school. at 11 years old i was living like i was 21. between the ages of 13 and 18, rapatz did time in juvenile detention centers in several states. once i turned 18 i got my