Life After Life in California’s Prisons . In 2006, California’s prison system housed more than 170,000 people, 199% of the capacity it was designed to hold. Five years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that health conditions in the state’s.
Facing Life: Gary Vong. BORN:1983YEARS INCARCERATED:18RELEASED:2018LOCATION:San Francisco, California "I'm just asking for a second chance to prove myself, to stay in this country."-Gary “I was born in Vietnam, I don’t.
These profiles, excerpted from the 'Facing Life' multimedia project, tell the stories of people working to reenter society after serving decades behind bars.