Friends incarcerated with me know me as "StingRay." I have been an inmate of the North Carolina prison system for five years. Through the trials of my mistakes, the people I've shared time with, and my refusal to give up on myself or surrender to institutional norms, I have come to understand the purpose of my incarceration experience to be one of awakening to the truths of humankind. To see another human being as simply that: Another you, Another me.