Jesus Mavis was a career criminal. He says he can’t remember living any other kind of life. After relocating to Utah from Phoenix, he ended up in prison again and decided he’d had enough of his old life.
I met Jesus at the D.I. where he talked about his past, showed me his tattoos and described the hell he'd been through - and had put others through.
But his eyes lit up as he talked about the future: his school classes, his part-time job as a mechanic, his new friends from his church, his elderly neighbors - he pulls weeds for them, they secretly leave home baked meals on his doorstep.
Jesus is up for parole this summer. This time, he says, he’s up for life.