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A Man Mourns The Brother He Killed

Steve Drown
Producer Brian Thames with Roderick Hall at Solano State Prison.

Roderick Hall got a life sentence for killing his brother. He says he only did it to save the life of someone else he loved just as much.

"I will never get over it. He was truly my best friend."

Uncuffed is produced by men at Solano State Prison. Learn more about them here.

KALW’s radio training program at Solano State Prison is supported by the California Arts Council, with funding from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The producers fact-check content to the best of their ability. All content is approved by a prison information officer.

Uncuffed is a project in which KALW editors train incarcerated people to report stories from inside prison. A CDCR official listened to and approved the audio for this story prior to broadcast.

Email KALW's Uncuffed editors.

Write to the Uncuffed producers at Solano State Prison:

UncuffedLevel 3 Education / Media LabP.O. Box 4000Vacaville, CA95696-4000

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Brian “bf” Thames has published five non-fiction books while incarcerated over the last 30 years. A pending 6th book advocating self-reliance and better decision making in potentially dangerous encounters is on the way. Learning languages is an exciting pastime for him. He’s become reasonably fluent in French, conversational in Spanish, and learned ASL during the Covid-19 pandemic. His favorite animals are Great Danes, and any variation of parrots/parakeets. Acquiring general knowledge and education about the world and existence tends to make him giddy.