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Shon Hopwood was once a good kid from a good Nebraskan family. Those who knew him well would never have imagined that, as a young man, he’d be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank. But he did, committing five armed bank robberies before being apprehended. Serving ten years in federal prison, Shon feared his life was once over. He wasn’t sure if he could live to tell the tale a cell block, but he was once made up our minds to take a look at. Hopwood pumped-up in the prison gym to defend himself and earned respect on the basketball court. He reconnected with the girl of his dreams from high school through letters and prison visits; and, crucially, he talked his way into a job in the prison law library. Hopwood slowly taught himself criminal law and began to help fellow inmates quite than himself. He wrote one petition to the Supreme Court, which was once chosen to be heard from over 7,000 other petitions submitted by the greater legal community that year. The Justices voted 9-0 in favor of Hopwood’s petition when the case was once in spite of everything heard. What might have been regarded as luck by some, was once dispelled when a second petition from him was once selected to be heard by the Supreme Court. He didn’t grasp it yet, but Shon’s legal work was once the start of a new life. Shon works on policy reform, and he’s a cofounder of PrisonProfessors.com. He strives to fortify outcomes of The us’s prison system, and he tells his amazing story in Law Man.