“The last thing I ever wanted to do was go back there,” said Wheeling Island native B.J. Salem. “I hated it there. I couldn’t wait to leave. Sure, I was a free man when I went back, and there were a lot of things that happened in there that changed my life for the better, but I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t go back. I said to myself, ‘When you leave here, you’re never coming back.’