K Dorm in 90 Days is a true story of life, how one’s life can change in a matter of minutes. K Dorm in 90 Days will speak to loved ones at home and to the inmates that are living the hell we call incarceration. It is a real-life story of a man that had everything he needed in life but chose to make poor decisions that had him see life on the other side of concrete walls. K Dorm tells a story about how daily life in jail or prison affects not only the one incarcerated but also the family on the outside, how jail hurts a family and can tear them apart. It, hopefully, can speak to the loved ones and tell them how an incarcerated person’s mind deals with the isolation and pain, how days can be long and nights even longer. It will speak of how one word can make a man sleep well or not be able to sleep for nights. K Dorm speaks to the inmates on not only how our decisions can isolate and put us behind bars but also how it sends our families to jail on the outside; how they live the life of worry, anger, and pain; how our actions affect them every day we are gone; and how it changes their thoughts on how to live going forward. K Dorm also speaks about how the system is broken in many ways. Once a criminal, always a criminal. It speaks about how people with a record are treated and how it is hard to ever be allowed back into society, be forgiven, and truly be given a second chance; how our system takes advantage of inmates’ desperation and profits on the backs of our families. Rehabilitation or pure humiliation—you decide as you go into the life of a man who had land, a family, college education, and everything he needed but ended up seeing the life on the other side of the steel door and lost it all.

Previosuly published: New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, c1978.