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

Clemente Peña, 2018
You attempted to dehumanize me by taking away my identity. Instead you helped me to rid myself of who I thought I was, and forced me to find my true self, who God intended me to be. You helped me to find the strength I needed to be an individual and the ability to free myself from my past. You gave me the need for change... “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” - Helen Keller