In the spirit of the new year and fresh starts, Crime Prevention Specialist Susan Bartelstone interviews Larry Lawton, who was convicted of armed robbery in 1996 and spent 11 years in some of the toughest federal prisons in the country. While in prison, he was tortured and put into solitary confinement for months at a time for speaking up about prison abuse. But, he also worked as a gang mediator and counselor, became a paralegal and came out changed. He's since founded The Reality Check Program—a life-changing course for at-risk kids that shows them what prison life is really like—and has
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