Mercury News: 'See the chapters that still have to be written':San Jose man's redemption held up as testament to landmark prison-reform law
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SAN JOSE — About two years into what was slated to be a 28-year prison sentence, Kennard Isaiah Love was all out of hope.
His feelings of helplessness drove him to the brink of suicide. He remembers that as his life was slipping away, he turned to prayer.
“I prayed, ‘Please don’t let me do all this time. Help me figure out the reason I’m here,’ ” Love, now 35, recalled in an interview.