(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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He had mentors in prison
Doctors patched him up and sent him back to his neighborhood
He was released from prison in 2010
He later became deeply religious in prison
The letter made him reflect on his life
He remembered a quote from Socrates in Plato’s Apology
Fourteen months later, he fired the shots that killed a man
He was shot once at age 15
His son told him, “Don’t kill. Jesus watches what you do.”
He compared release to Fred Flintstone walking into The Jetsons
He thought “LOL” meant “lots of love”
His father stood by him for 19 years
He received a letter of forgiveness from a victim’s relative
He ran black market stores in prison
Calvin Evans enrolled in college at age 45
At age 19, he shot and killed a man
His friend Calvin Evans served 24 years for a crime he didn’t commit
He read Harry Potter and said it changed his life
He rationalized his decision to shoot
He worked for a company called BMe
He stressed acknowledgment, apology, and atonement
He said most incarcerated people are redeemable
He read Malcolm X’s autobiography
He got a letter from his son with squiggly handwriting
He wanted to help others turn their lives around
He blamed his parents and the system
He was shot three times at age 17
He said 90% of incarcerated people will return to the community
He dreamed of being a professional basketball player
His friend rushed him to the hospital
He accidentally texted “FU” as a joke
He asked people to imagine a world where mistakes don’t define you forever
He entered prison bitter and angry
He taught at the University of Michigan
His son wrote, “Dad, one day you’ll be president.”
He spent one month in solitary confinement
He grew up in Chicago
He met an amazing woman who taught him to love himself
The warden called him “the model prisoner”
His son wrote, “My mama told me why you was in prison: murder.”
He discovered black poets, authors, and philosophers
He was released from prison in 2005
No one counseled him or told him he would be okay
He was a young drug dealer with a quick temper
He started keeping a journal
He spent seven and a half years in solitary confinement
The warden called him “the worst of the worst”
He later became a professional chef
His mentors were famous athletes who visited the prison
He became paranoid after being shot
He thought “K” in texting meant something bad
He got a fellowship at MIT Media Lab
That letter made him feel open to forgiving himself
He realized many incarcerated men came from abusive backgrounds
He wants society to move away from “lock them up and throw away the key”
