As of this writing, Trejo has been clean and sober for 52 years, and he's helped countless others achieve sobriety and improve their lives. Eventually, he maintained his sobriety and became a drug counselor more than a decade before he took his first Hollywood acting gig. He was twelve years old when he first took heroin, and he spent too much of his youth in prison for an endless variety of felonies. MI-CEMI brings together the nonprofits, faith-based groups, and community leaders working to improve the current criminal legal system so they can do together what none of them can do alone.Trejo's book pulls no punches when it comes to his past. Chuck Warpehoski is the program director at Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI). We all make mistakes, and we all deserve to hope that if we do, we can be redeemed. But when our prisons and legal system do not incentivize or recognize change, they make change less likely, undermine accountability, and deprive our communities of people like Danny who could give so much back. Plain and simple, people - especially young people still struggling to find who they are and want to be - can change. The American Friends Service Committee Michigan Criminal Justice Project is promoting review for people who have served long sentences, especially those who committed crimes as young people (before their brains finished developing) and our elders who have had years to grow. Create mechanisms for review and relief for people who have been in prison for decades.This could happen through Good Time legislation, or Michigan United’s ballot initiative gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures from Michiganders eager for change. Michigan is just one of six states not to allow people to earn reductions in their prison sentence. Not only does Good Time encourage people in prison to make responsible choices, it also makes prisons safer for people working and living there alike. Incentive rehabilitation by allowing people in prison to earn Good Time credits, a means of reducing their prison sentences.But when the government says, “no chance for parole,” it is saying, “no hope for redemption.” Danny is an example people can change, and he is now active in the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth’s efforts to repeal Michigan’s juvenile life without parole sentences. Yes, young people can make terrible decisions and cause tremendous harm.
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