A version of this story ran in the January 2015 issue.
Yoga instructor, Jim Freeman of Conviction Yoga, left, leads a group of inmates in a class at Powledge Prison in Palestine, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.
Jesse Rizo, who lost a niece in Texas’ deadliest school shooting, turned pain into a run for public office. He thinks his town is beginning to “come back together.”