Photograph from the Humanize the Numbers project, photographed in Michigan prisons

Dru, 2017
I don’t want help from anyone. I want to reenter the world with confidence. While I’ve been incarcerated, I have lost pretty much everything, and I mean everything. I welcome this fresh start. Anything has to be better than being locked up for six and a half years. I wanna start out with nothing so that I can do it by myself and appreciate everything I have. I know it’s going to be hard, but I welcome it.