Byline: The Register-Guard EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a first-person account of life inside the Oregon corrections system, as told by a mentally ill former inmate who was incarcerated from 2000 to 2004. The ex-inmate, whose first name is John, requested that his last name be withheld, citing concerns about the stigma associated with being an ex-convict who has returned to society. The edited comments below are excerpted from a longer interview with Register-Guard reporter David Steves.
