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Two days ago, I received an article entitled quote, "How Scott Semple Helped Turn Connecticut's Prisons Into a Nationally Recognized Laboratory of Reform," end quote, which was posted @wwdotconnecticutmag.com. I had just come back to my cell after my last college class, when I began to read the article. Halfway through the article, I got so excited, I almost couldn't finish reading it. I started to write several letters to people I wanted to tell about the article. I felt the need to take action, but I forced myself to finish the article and to think. What had me so excited is that in 2017, the Connecticut Department of Corrections, working with Vera Institute of Justice, started a pilot program dedicated to creating a better prison environment for young prisoners. Cheshire Correctional Institution was selected as the spot for the program, which is called the TRUE unit, an acronym for: truthfulness to oneself and others, respectfulness toward the community, understanding ourselves and what brought us here, an