Incarcerated individuals are prone to making empty promises about reform because they are depressed and desperate to say anything to change their circumstances.

“But you're you're also in prison and you're so depressed in prison and and so desperate like you start saying you'll say anything cuz you and you believe all this.”

Taking full responsibility for one's own actions is the critical mindset shift required to stop returning to prison.

“I said you know what I put myself here yeah like and it was like once I did that it was like something opened up inside of me I'm like holy stuff man like I put myself it's nobody's fault by my own and like all the self-development books just like came back like that once bam”