Letters From The Inside: What Are You Proud of This Year?

Every week, our Mission Possible team stays connected with VOTE members on the inside through JPAY, sharing updates, answering questions, and hearing directly about what’s happening behind the walls. These exchanges shape our work and keep us rooted in the people most impacted by this system.

This month, we asked our incarcerated members: What are you proud of this year?

Their answers reflect growth, grief, joy, faith, resilience, and the kind of everyday courage that rarely makes it past the prison gates. These are their words — in their own voices — shared with permission and offered to the community that has their back.

My biggest joy is helping those who cant help themselves. Terrance J

My biggest joy is helping those who cant help themselves.

This year I’m most proud of having the strength and the courage to keep standing after losing everything. I’m proud that my losses wasn’t just losses, they were lessons learned and motivation for me to want better and do better. The pain I felt from letting myself down, ignited a fire that will forever burn because I’ve learned from experience. Chris L

This year I’m most proud of having the strength and the courage to keep standing