Robert Anthony Broyles, Jr. had just days left on his prison sentence at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex. He’d kept his head down and had done his time, taking classes to better himself and ...

Gaye Holman is the author of “Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America’s Prisons,” which was published in 2017. Beginning in 1994, Holman began recording the stories of 50 ...