Me and my brother you go see stepfather, my brother was in prison with and left and got killed. Whoever killed my brother. His niece came up told him to stay good. I was not ever going to be able to forgive and people can not be blessed if you hold to anger. I will be on parole in 2048 and revenge is not going to bring his brother back. He did some bad things to forgive somebody. This is a strong message. This is a strong message we need to forgive it holds us in prison.
Wallo267 went on to spend five years in and out of the juvenile system. By the time he reached 17 the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections identified him as inmate #DG-2670. While serving his time his brother was murdered. In this difficult heartfelt talk, Wallo talks about the power of forgiveness. Wallo267 went on to spend five years in and out of the juvenile system. By the time he reached 17 the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections identified him as inmate #DG-2670. While serving his time he realized he was in prison for being someone he really wasn’t. From that moment on he started embracing his individualism. As Wallo267 would say “I wasn’t in jail I was in Yale, I wasn’t in prison I was in Princeton, I wasn’t in the State Penn I was in Penn State”. He ran into a cell phone as his sentence was coming to an end, that cell phone helped him see that the world was bigger than the streets that once dictated his every move. At the age of 37, he walked out of prison on February 18th, 2017 after serving twenty years for multiple armed robberies and firearm violations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
