It has become common today to dismiss criminals as these delinquents beyond hope of redemption or improvement. It is easier to think of them as these people who do not care about anything and who will not learn from their mistakes. This could not be further from the truth for former prisoner Robin Woods. In his youth he used to break into houses and steal things to sell later. But one time, he was careless and stole too much to be able to reasonably sell and when he tried to sell them to friends, one of them soled him out. He was arrested and given a harsh sentence of 16 years in prison. He described the prison as the worst he had ever been in, beatings were very common and it was every man for himself. Conditions were so bad that he and other prisoners started a riot, Robin was severely beaten and an extra seven years were added to his sentence and he was sent to a super max prison. To pass the time he tried reading, but as a kid he was placed in special ed and never learned to read. Determined Robin used dictionaries to teach himself to read and eventually he learned and started his own library in his cell. He became so advanced that he picked up mistakes in Mark Stephens encyclopedia, he even wrote Mark Stephens a letter about the mistakes and received responses. Eventually Robin was transferred to another prison and his books were taken from him, Mark Stephens heard of this and fought to get his books back. Eventually Robins was sent home 5 years early on good behavior and he even got to meet his long time friend, Mark Stephens and spent an entire day with him. Ironically after spending the day with him, he was robbed and said that he finally got how it felt.