Larry speaks with Joe Loya, author of The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber. Joe Loya’s mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness when he was nine years old. His father, a Protestant minister, displaced his grief onto his sons, beating them in the shadow of his wife’s illness. As a teenager, Joe finally snapped, stabbing his father in the neck. Thus began a life of crime that finally put him in prison for seven years. Joe began a correspondence with author Richard Rodriguez that launched his career as a writer, the vehicle for his redemption. He now works as a writer and an editor with the Pacific Sun News Service.
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