As a journalist, I’d done something that mattered, at least to the people who were in...
People say when you’re in prison that you’re doing time — like it is a thing you will do and it will be over. But then you get out, and you discover that there is more, as if the wasted hours and minutes follow you around and now your life is about reversing them, making good, undoing time. And when I looked at what I’d done with my time, I wondered: Was it enough?
At first it was just general assignment and breaking news, but after the longtime death penalty reporter retired, my editor suggested I take over the coverage.It must have seemed like a natural fit to her — but I was skeptical, even though I didn’t say it. Given my past, I worried that it was almost trite, an admission that this was the only thing a former prisoner could do well: Of course the felon is covering the felons.
As soon as we got off the phone, I started filing. Now that I knew what to do, I wanted to dive in. That first night, I put in enough requests that I got a call from a bemused prison spokesman the next day. “I’m not sure we’ve ever gotten that many different records requests from one person in the same day,” he said, with a dry chuckle. “Some of these could take a while.”
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