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Stole from my grandmother’s checkbook.

Robbie

Then it got to where I was breaking into her house. Then I started buying checks from people, and forging people’s names on everyone else’s checks. Then the burglaries began.

Assaulted four with a knife, but a prison friend modeled a better way.

Matt H

Really, I wanted to die. I was doing all the things that were killing me anyway. I had so much pain, hurt, and hatred I didn’t know how to process any of it.

Kleptomaniac.

Tisa

I never paid for gas. I never paid for my food; not even at convenience stores. I didn’t pay for the cokes I got. I would steal cases of beer at time, leather coats, my Prom dress.

Angry. Who do I blame?

Aaron

"I just wanted to sit down and eat dinner with my family."

Got another chance to live right after shooting him in the head.

Darren

They took me to the dessert out in Tucson, AZ and tried to make me dig a hole. They were going to bury me in the hole. So I told them; “Kill me and dig it yourself.”

Kids in school mocked my club foot.

Rikhard

Bam! They hit me in the face with this metal baseball bat. They asked me again; “Give us your money! Give us your money!”

Matt Damon played me as an FBI Informant.

Mark

As you can imagine, I got very depressed. I pulled my car in one of those garages and tried to kill myself.

Lost my house, job and BMW when I sampled a little something to ease the pain.

Wendi

Within four weeks, I had lost my husband, my house, my job.

Thought partying would make me happy.

Marc

"I had an ankle bracelet put on and I couldn’t drink. That year was the greatest year of my life"

My criminal ways left during an out of body experience (full story)

TJ Johnson

Running drugs by age nine, worth half a million by 15, TJ later vowed to kill eleven men associated with his brother's murder. But when he picked up a bible in his large home with many security cameras, a supernatural force a...