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Phillip Alvin Jones, Jr. has been fed through the brutal apparatus of the American prison complex for more than half his life. At the age of only 19, he was tried and convicted for a non-homicide offense, and sentenced under incomprehensibly draconian standards to two life sentences plus an additional twenty years. At the very least, the punishment was harsh. At the most, it was an egregious miscarriage of justice. Throughout his ordeal, Phillip managed to navigate the brutality of the prison system while simultaneously shedding the shackles of his upbringing and fomenting the arduous transition from a misdirected and hopeless youth to a focused and dedicated man. After being incarcerated for decades, including at the Maryland House of Corrections Annex - one of the most infamously violent prisons in the country - Phillip has reinvented himself into not only a functional and productive human being, but a thoughtful, introspective and ardent man. His rebirth under the most extreme conditions imaginable is nothing short of miraculous.