Jorge Antonio Renaud says that the United States is enamored with the idea that certain individuals are just “crime prone.” At 20, he was arrested and put in jail, where he survived a traumatic attack. Feeling lost led him to drugs, theft and decades in prison. Now the national criminal justice director at LatinoJustice, he shares his Brief but Spectacular take on reimagining incarceration.

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