Y’all, we wrote a book! With the help of our paid interns in the community, we sat down and thought about the word “opps,” and how we wanted to recreate the narrative, turnings this colloquialism from meaning oppositions to opportunities. In this guide, we encourage our students to use that same fervor they used to take down their adversaries (i.e opps as they call them) and harness that energy to take down opportunities instead— which this guide is packed full of. From Higher Education to job readiness, The Guide has it all. We use stories from real people who survived the system and made it out the revolving door to explain how our students can defeat recidivism. Each chapter ends with a thought-provoking writing prompt or exercise and is particularly custom-made for young people serving time. The Guide also contains educational opps in various state prisons and tear-out applications so that students can get ahead of the game and start requesting vitals they’ll need to work or apply to school once they return home.