Omar Abdur-Rahim

The Long Way Back: What Five Decades Behind Bars Taught Me About Freedom, Purpose, and Saving the Kids I Once Was

Omar Abdur-Rahim spent 48 years in 10 Massachusetts prisons and now co-founds youth deterrence programs and mentors at-risk youth at the Center for Teen Empowerment.

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The thesis

One man's 48-year journey through 10 Massachusetts prisons - and the purposeful life he built after - proves that no matter how long or how deep the fall, transformation is always possible, and that the most powerful tool for saving the next generation is the unflinching, hard-won truth of lived experience.