The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has a short list of codified reasons that they use to explain the reason for denying a person release on parole. Many of the people reading this book who entered prison as a children – as well as their loved ones and advocates – will recognize “2D” as the board’s shorthand way of saying that a person simply has not done enough by the board’s measures. As I write this, countless men and women are working diligently…
