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Kelly Garcia-Chavez Highlight
If you’ve been incarcerated, your path doesn’t define who you are today. It will never define that.
About Kelly
- I was sentenced as a juvenile and ultimately spent 18 years in prison.
- When I first got to prison, I spent a lot of time in solitary confinement because I kept fighting and getting into trouble.
- I finally changed my mindset, hit the books, and earned both my GED and a bachelor’s degree in psychology while in prison.
- After realizing the injustices that were happening in prison, I began doing advocacy work from the inside to expose those realities.
- I was released in 2014 and completed my parole successfully.
- Now I’m involved with Millions for Prisoners and the ACLU of New Mexico to advocate for justices like voting rights for incarcerated people.