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Prison Release Is the First Surprise of Many

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Cindy Horswell's report in today's Houston Chronicle.  LINKWhen Michael Eubanks was convicted of capital murder in 1978 and given a life sentence, his hair was as flaming red as his temper.The 20-year-old from Houston got into prison fights daily. His first year he was even thrown into solitary confinement for organizing what officials called a mutiny. After all, he never expected to make it out of prison alive. Nobody cared what happened to him. He didn't know his birth parents and had burned bridges with his adopted ones. He saw his chances for parole as ?slim to none.?Yet, after three decades in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell, he felt he had mellowed like his strawberry-blond hair.He's now 52. He earned a college degree behind bars and became a master leather craftsman...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).