Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?

News Source : Vulture
News Summary
- In 2001, when I was 24, I shot and killed a man on a Brooklyn street
- I was sentenced to 25 years to life, on top of the three years I was already serving for selling drugs
- In September 2018, I published a story in New York about the mental-illness crisis in prison
- On a lark, I asked a CNN producer if she could help get me a segment to talk about the crisis
In September 2018, I published a story in New York about the mentalillness crisis in prison. On a lark, I reached out to a producer I knew at CNN, Loen Kelley, and asked if she could help get me a s [+16064 chars]