Christopher Blackwell, forty-one-years-old, is serving a forty-five-year prison sentence in Washington State. He co-founded Look 2 Justice, an organization that provides civic education to system-impacted communities and actively works to pass sentence and policy reform legislation. He is currently working towards publishing a book on solitary confinement. His writing has been published by The New York Times,The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Huff Post, and many other outlets. He is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents and works closely with the prison writing program Empowerment Avenue. You can follow him and be in touch on Twitter @chriswblackwell.