Chino Hardin’s life changed forever in prison. Although he had a girlfriend on the outside, he met a woman named Nicole on the inside and immediately fell in love with her. (At the time, Hardin was in a women’s prison, since he didn’t yet legally identify as a man.) But Hardin grew up on the drug war’s front lines, in a neighborhood where showing weakness could be a death sentence. Thus, he only knew how to deal with his emotions one way: through aggression. So, he taunted and threatened Nicole.
Then, Hardin learned that his girlfriend had been attacked. He…