Unusual Love Story

and entrepreneurship to hundreds of other incarcerated men and writing the highly praised book, “Think Outside the Cell: An Entrepreneur’s Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated.”

 

After more than a year of corresponding, I traveled to Sullivan Correctional Facility in the Catskill Mountains in 2003 to meet Joe. And in 2005 I married him in Sullivan’s austere visiting room because I had come to love and respect the man he had created to honor his best self. I had looked beyond the labels to behold his humanity, just as he had come to behold mine.

 

Sheila loves Joe. Joe loves Sheila.

Joseph Robinson began teaching prisoners about personal finance and business in 1995. He is currently working off the seventeenth year of a prison term of 25-to-life for murder. Please visit thinkoutsidethecell.com for more information.

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