January 30, 2014
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Outside Looking In A Loyola Marymount University exhibit gives prison inmates a voice through art By Joe Piasecki
Exonerated after spending 20 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Loyola Marymount
University sociology student Franky Carrillo reflects on a self portrait he made inside Folsom State Prison — a pencil sketch of a naked, anguished man seated on a plain wooden chair. “It takes me right back into my prison cell,” says Carrillo, 39. “I was sitting where this guy is. My life was on hold. This image was all that I had.” At 16, Carrillo was arrested and later convicted of a drive-by shooting in Lynwood despite his and his father’s insistence that he was at home in Maywood watching TV at the time of the killing. In March 2011, having lived behind bars since January 1991, Carrillo walked out of Los Angeles Superior Court a free man after a judge overturned his (Continued on page 10)
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