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