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