Los Angeles prisoner artist, Donald “C-Note” Hooker, see himself as an unlikely candidates in the role of Prisoner Transformative Justice Coordinator. A role he carved out for himself in 2016 after reading about a visit to San Quentin State Prison by actress Helen Hunt who was on a restorative justice fact-finding mission.

“In the mid-to-late 90s when I came to jail, California had a liberal citizenry who passed a three strikes law, an immigrant benefits restriction law, and a juvenile crime Bill,“ says C-Note. "24 years of three elected Republican Governors and a lone Democrat, who had been recalled despite having the prison guard union as a major campaign contributor. There was a parole board who wasn’t letting anyone out and if they did consider you eligible, one of those aforementioned Governors were going to overturn their decision. So where was the hope? Now I’m up for consideration to be published in Wikipedia for my art and activism. I used to label myself as a Prisoner Restorative Justice Coordinator, that was until I read Restorative Justice versus Transformative Justice in Viviane Saleh-Hanna’s, Penal Abolitionist Dictionary.”