Ben (Cincere) Wilson is Program Assistant at the Institute for Transformative Mentoring Center for New York City Affairs at The New School. He is a writer and advocate working with formerly incarcerated people to create powerful narratives of hope and resilience. The Things I’ve Seen I’ve seen stuff in New York’s state prisons that civilians would not believe: its a place where the letters L.I.F.E actually mean death, where you hand over a quarter and get old for change, wh