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This book is about is about my life growing up and wanting to become a custom home builder like my dad. I achieved that goal having built over two hundred custom homes in the Indianapolis area. Building homes, remodeling homes, flipping homes, and becoming a mortgage broker as well. An entrepreneur then an inmate at a prison camp for two-and-a-half years. My story and stories of other brilliant minds. When the building and mortgage industry crashed in 2009, I retired from those. I did some remodeling and started a networking business. Things were starting to click and then a friend introduced me to a new business. The synthetic marijuana business then called K2. It was legal, so I took it on and starting manufacturing K2. Soon I was making millions with my latest plant in LA. I become a true entrepreneur. I started a recording studio, record label, concert promotions, limo service, and two restaurants with entertainment. Hobnobbing with celebrities, enjoying the wonderful life.

Then one cold February morning there was a knock on the door, it was Lewis and his DEA posse. Raiding my home and another group raiding the plant in LA at the same time, seizing over two and a half million dollars from me.

It all came crashing down, they said that I had a banned product called XRL11 in my products. I told them that I had never heard of that product and never bought any of it. It did not matter what I said.

Well, I was threatened and coerced into taking a plea deal and if I did not, I could be facing twenty years and they would bring my wife into this as well. She did not have anything to do with the business. They offered me 0-5 years, my attorney said I would get probation. The Judge said I was a good businessman but would be an example and he gave me four years.

Now I am a 69-year-old first time and nonviolent inmate at a prison camp, a criminal, and a number 12636-028 to go by. One good thing at the camp I meet a lot of good brilliant minds, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, builders, engineers, and of course drug users and dealers. Some not even knowing they were committing a crime. Some knowing or unknowing committing a crime. Then getting unjust and excessive time.

I will be an advocate to help change prison and sentencing reform and helping convicted offenders before, during, and after prison. Helping children of incarcerated parents.

Roger Upchurch