"That's how we survived, really. By hoping and think things that know that things will be better someday," he says. "Those are the people that are going to go and grab the electric fence ... They couldn't handle it anymore." 'I was a 14-year-old kid; I was a young kid,' LZ Granderson says of his time in prison. "'Whatever you do, stay alive so you can tell the world what they're doing to us' That was my mission,'" he adds.