In this video, I share my experience of becoming desensitized to life in federal prison. After a while, I stopped feeling like I was in prison and was just living my life.
This feeling changed, however, when our case manager instructed all prisoners to go back to our cubicles for a visit. We thought executives from the federal Bureau of Prisons were visiting, but we were surprised to learn that hundreds of students from middle and high schools had arrived as part of an experiment to see life in prison. Seeing those students staring at us reminded me that I was in prison and had a profound impact on me.
Justin Paperny
