This spring Kyle has been out of prison for a year. Today he works multiple jobs and is focused on raising his teenage son. “As long as I wake up,” he says, “I’ve got blood in my veins and breathe in my lungs, I’m going to make it happen. The right way.”
But it wasn’t always this way. When Kyle was 17 he made a few bad decisions explaining, “I was getting more care from bad friends than from my own family. I felt like I didn’t have anyone else on my team.” This led to a series of incarcerations, the last of which was GEO’s Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility in Georgia.
Kyle says that Riverbend gave him the instruction, positive relationships and confidence to say goodbye to prison forever – though he did return once, to mentor those still behind bars, and he looks forward to doing so again.
