Ricardo* was just 15 when he was incarcerated for killing one of his schoolmates.

By the time he was freed, 10 and a half years had passed. He had lost his teenage years, the beginning of adulthood and the chance to grow up normally. But even as he speaks about the years prison took from him, he remembers his victim.

“I lost years, but he lost everything,” he said. “That is why I don’t like talking about it too much. Somebody dead. A youth like me, somebody weh go school like me, never get to grow up. That is one of the biggest regrets of my life.”