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Former ‘Prison Break’ star turned real life prison inmate, Lance Garrison, has sent a letter to US television show Access Hollywood about his incarceration, explaining that "this has been the hardest year of my life".

The 27-year-old actor was sentenced to three years and four months behind bars over a drink driving car accident in December 2006, in which a teenager was killed. Garrison was driving the car, and the teenager was a passenger.

In the letter to the program, Garrison writes:

"Greetings and Happy New Year to you and everyone at Access Hollywood from Donovan State Prison.

"Never did I think I would be saying the words ‘happy & prison’ in the same sentence and not be on a set. It’s pure irony coming from the show and now living the real deal. It’s surreal and mind-blowing to say the least.

"Just this past Monday they let a group of inmates watch the season premiere of Prison Break. It felt like an out of body experience as I stood around a crowd of tattooed felons watching Michael Scofield try to escape … all of us longing to be free as well!

"This has been the hardest year of my life. I hope people, young and old, are learning from my mistakes and what can happen when you drink and drive. I have much to say about the pain I’ve felt and seen inside of prison; it has been eye-opening and a harrowing experience."

"This has been the hardest year of my life," he wrote. "I hope people, young and old, are learning from my mistakes and what can happen when you drink and drive. I have much to say about the pain I’ve felt and seen inside of prison. It has been eye-opening and a harrowing experience."

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Photo courtesy of Fox.  Taken by Jeremy Cowart. 

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