Forrest Jones spent over two decades in California state prisons, but on Sunday, he graduated from college.
Jones grew up in Hanford in San Joaquin Valley where he was the youngest of 10 siblings in a working class family.
In 1991, Jones was sent to state prison for burglary and theft. Four years later, he was released, returned to his addiction and then received a sentence of 25 years to life under the California Three Strike Law for stealing a $400 VCR. In 2018,Everything changed for the better when he got transferred to San Quentin State Prison.
Jones spent his incarceration studying the law and figuring out the root of his addiction. He became an activist and a journalist, writing for the San Quentin newspaper about law and prison reform. He was published in the Journal of Prisoners on Prison and made documentaries.
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