‘It was obvious I was not a normal kind of guy’
Robert Orr went to prison for the first time when he was 17.
“It’s an ugly story, man. I’ve been in prison three times. I went for my first time when I was 17. Ted Poe sent me there because I was driving a friend of mine’s car, and he stole some stuff.
“It was the same year that Lee High School burned down. I was on my bunk at the Jester II Unit watching it burn on TV. Seeing my friends out there, some of them crying, it was kind of weird.
“I wasn’t a bad kid. I was in FFA in high school, and I had a grand champion lamb at the youth fair. Then, a little over a year later, I find myself in prison feeding calves for the state.
“For years, I wondered how I got myself into that situation. Until it happened a couple more times, and by then it was obvious that I was not really a normal kind of guy.”
— Robert Orr, 46
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