no ma'am. what we see on t.v. shows is not reality our justice system isn't what you think it is rolling stone magazine considers wayne kramer of the m c 51 of the top 100 greatest guitarists of all time he battled drug addiction in the 1975 went to prison for 2 years for selling cocaine he's since provided guitars and taught music 10 minutes at over 50 correctional institutions throughout the united states people think that you know you have a right to a trial and everybody goes to trial and there's the good prosecutor the and the defense attorney and they battle it out that is the way it works the way it works is the prosecutors stack up the charges on you and force you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life people don't get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between 3 and 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged michelle

alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies america's criminal justice system the reality is that thousands of people. every year and i had states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because they're the they're railroaded by police officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because they are afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea using every general you don't know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you don't know anything so they put you in there with these people in this is how they force you to take do the u.s. justice system just like any justice system in the world assist. somewhere 95

percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know it's no longer a trial system it's a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the perspective of a prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have in the high 90 percentile conviction rates including those plea bargains. because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didn't do and so we agree that i would plead guilty and exchange for a youth authority sums we went back into trial we entered the plea and i went down for a 90 day observation at the youth already in norwalk the challenge is if you're innocent and you create guilty you better be a good liar you go down there you talk to psychologists and they ask you to just do it but you have to say yes because it has to be consistent with everything well how do you do it i mean i didn't have adequate answers for these questions so they didn't they didn't buy it in a sense you know rightly so and they sent

a report that was positive and negative report back to the judge. and he said i didn't realize that you thought he would be able to help you and so allow you to take back your guilty plea and go have a trial or i'll send you to state prison right now so that began another period of waiting. it would be well over a year before bruce would get another trial date 24 hours a day in a cell in isolation no contact with other juveniles only counselors one hour out for recreation and while they might not be able to introduce an alternate suspect demanded his lawyer knock down every argument the prosecution could make. the pass a kid i said those could not have seen his mother's body through the back window of the house the son's reflection in the glass and the furniture would have blocked his view his defense was the crime scene pictures were taken on a much sunnier day the prosecution. claimed all the bloody footprints in the house

matched bruce's shoes defense says his fingerprints were not found anywhere in the crime scene there was no evidence that he wiped anything down or made any attempt to cover his tracks because bruce had nothing to hide the prosecution called robert hughes who claimed confessed in the 7000 model of county jail and the defense compared robert hughes to a used car salesman who wasn't to be trusted. and one day they wrap their keys on the door and they say listen her it's a verdict my dad was there he was there just every court date he was right there in the front row and we were just you know. i contact but you can't really talk because you're not allowed to it's not a visit you know you're not allowed to visit with your. but he was he was there and the jury comes in. one by one you know excruciating the slow sets down. and the judge speaks we reached

a verdict yes we have in the matter of people versus groups list here. with the jury find the defendant. and they said guilty. and it was just. read the bottom literally fell out of my world and said it's over and. it's my life. when you've been falsely accused your only hope is for your attorney to directly challenge the veracity of the police my attorneys seem not to be willing to go that far you never out right said isn't it true that you're just lying about all of this here's the investigatory work that i did that proves that you're just a liar and he never did that. and this is part of a larger problem that david serota calls the authority bias authority bias meaning the government and institutions says somebody did something and they must have done

it and what's strange about it is that this is a country that in one way or the american side goes is i don't trust the government can do any round on trust anything the government says and yet at another level at the very same time that that's the dominant with oracle paradigm in our politics there is this authority bias where when the government accuses somebody of a crime or says somebody is a a wrongdoer we're flexibly millions and millions of americans thing. it must be true here you go you're not you're not are thank you very well you're not beholding would you like to be placed under arrest you're not allowed to arrest me. and so if you're innocent and you find yourself in prison it's hard to have any hope at all. a year later my client grabbed another woman and knifepoint and less sentenced to 6 years for armed robbery but

other than those his father nobody had connected my client to the murder but other inmates like jeff deskovic another wrongfully convicted men trying to prove his innocence. remember reading about. in the magazine just the same night they all out people who allege they've been wrongfully convicted of a plausible story to write about the hope that more public attention will come when i read about bruce's case it was reaffirming to me that i was on the right path because even though he had been exonerated he was still looking for help he had given up you can't give up no matter how long it takes. and it could take a long time one of the biggest factors in why the us has the largest prison population in the world is the length of our prison sentences. the average sentence for burglary in canada and in england is around 6 months in the us it's around

a year and a half. in other developed countries a drug offense might land you a year a year and a half in jail in the us it's 5 to 10 years or more if you're a black man in america your sentence will be 20 percent longer and if you're a white man for the exact same crime i met a woman that had a 1st offense nothing more than. i was worth of crack cocaine and was sentenced to jail in 1979 and didn't come until 2014 and she said to me i don't know how to use the phone. i don't know how to send a text. i don't know how to email. people particularly black people were defined as the enemy in the war on drugs they were

defined that way politically but also through. crack cocaine epidemic is taking a dangerous turn white people brown people people all use drugs and sell drugs at the same rate but if we look at who's serving time in america's prisons the law enforcement apparatus is deployed disproportionately against people of color look at them in the war on drugs also bears a major responsibility for racial bias in our prison system is african-americans for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites and longest sentences people of color make up only 30 percent up to laces the make up 60 percent of all prisons by the most conservative estimates if we keep going the way we're one in 4 black man born today will go to jail at some point in their lifetime. 5.3000000 americans the

right to vote based on a felony conviction and that impacts men of color more than anyone else just has to change. you know with any. lateral damage and although white people may not have been the original target they may not have been the inspiration for the war. many people particularly poor working class white folks have found themselves. is a u.s. army veteran who served in the gulf war. 3 weeks. what he paid for it so that he wasn't giving it to me for free if you want to call that trafficking trafficker. personal use we were just for play frisbee and listen to

rock n roll during a visit or another major reason for america's overflowing prison population the u.s. locks up more people for drugs than any other country on the planet there are over half a 1000000 americans locked up for drugs on any given day and the ball was one of them he was facing a lot of time facing 10 year mandatory minimum but they offered him a deal for not forcing the government to go through the time expensive trial all he had to do was plead guilty and after some painful consideration. and after all those years in prison one thing bothered paul the most you know here we are in this modern society where we are melting pot and getting along for the most part and then in prison you know it's completely opposite you know suzy going there if you were a racist when you went in there require you to be one soon as you get in every single jail or prison or every one i've ever been to it's own divided by race and everything segregated and there you have the white phone you have my skin from the

black phone you know the asian phone i match kaiser with more of my guide to financial survival this is a fun it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because. americans love buying homes. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a hoe and then you know rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system.

it seems the racism that helped spark the explosion of america's prison system still burns like a raging fire with its walls shamefully him from the public eye. it was a very strict code of pentagon erase this is what we do. even the prison

guards promote this. some people theorize that it's a way for the guards to keep control over us because if we all got along then who would really be running the prison. us or the guards one guard for every 100 guys prison society is further divided from race into gangs so it helps to either be in one or be from the right neighborhood or ride to prison the guy that was next to me was just a regular dove lone beach he played basketball and padi high school he was a regular dooley on a flat top you know me you know he was going to prison for he had took a deal for i believe it was like spousal abuse images grow it was a terrorist threat in the united states a terrorist threat covers any state that contains the threat of violence against another person in this case reggie is talking about an argument a man was having with his girlfriend where he threatened her until he was on beat or whatever it was it was a terrorist threat it was no physical violence or anything but he took

a deal for 18 months and he was only supposed to like take a deal for 18 months are going to do it 5 or 10 or whatever so he failed. the 1st night we got near the x. who from south central from south central where you from explains when one of your homeboys over here said you're going to direct you where you're supposed to go this guy didn't have any what he was just from long beach snowy just was a regular do no end that night. and i'm listening to was going on and on if they were playing because that's what it started off was this is the whole game it everything is that is is. way to lead to something knows what i'd say you don't let anybody touch you in geo and he didn't know is he to understand it you're not supposed to rouse was somebody to say oh because this is what they're doing they're trying to see if they can get you're going to position in this it right there moment both and i'm listening to him they give them a somebody will come help does do. i mean in a dating that night in the say oh they were a team. according to the department of justice nearly one in 10 prisoners suffer

sexual abuse while in american jails and prisons. so let's keep that in mind the next time a talk show host a government official or anybody makes a joke about prison rape the fact that we find these jokes acceptable shows just how far we've gone to normalizing rape as a just punishment for any offense as long as we keep imagining that people in prison are subhuman that they're predatory and cordial and nothing like you and me why would we lose any sleep about what their lives are like what's happening to them there are now over 5000 jails and prisons in the united states more than we have colleges and universities in many parts of america are simply this out there are more people who are living in prisons there on college campuses and a multibillion dollar business has emerged. brace yourself this is going to sound too barbaric to be real like medieval times

a science fiction horror film or a french historical musical the 13th amendment of the constitution outlawed slavery but it still allows for forced labor if you are in prison today there are roughly $1000000.00 american prisoners working for corporations and government industries there is no minimum wage so you could make as little as a few cents an hour bruce worked in the kitchen for years then in clerical jobs making a maximum of $0.32 an hour. it sounds like another time for a con brothers movie but it's happening right now there are no benefits no organizing and no strikes this is big business for state and for profit prisons who sell inmate labor to fortune $500.00 slike shopper on bank of america 18 n.t. and the us military nearly half the population in prison make military uniforms body armor helmets and provide labor as subcontractors for fortune $500.00.

they make office furniture man call centers take otel reservations work can slaughter houses for manufacture textiles shoes and clothing for pennies prison labor is part of why some state and private prisons old a multi-billion dollar profit. not only are prisoners used to make products prisoners themselves are sold as products since the 1980 s. the prison population has boomed now 150 private prisons are paid billions by state governments to house prisoners private prisons do so well some of their biggest investors are banks like wells fargo bank of america many private prisons demand 90 or even 100 percent occupancy meaning the taxpayer foots the bill for every bed even the empty. for profit prisons are incentivized to incarcerate more people and

for longer periods of time to fold or quotas to make sure that happens they spend millions of tough on crime. today nearly 10 percent of america's prisoners are held in private prisons and they also spend millions influencing immigration to change immigrants are held in private prisons for indefinite periods of time often years exposed to brutal conditions because they're not americans the government gives. no right to even the most basic legal representation or medical care 3 housing facilities were set on fire and apparently all started over inmate frustration over the quality of medical care perhaps needless to say being treated like cattle and used as forced labor for pennies an hour is not that popular on the inside but that's not the worst of it the socks if you're using the underwear that is you is

used you got to buy things like shaving and food and sweats and socks underwear t. shirts the canteen or commissary is more expensive than any convenience store on the outside it's definitely advisable to have money so that you can get started if you don't have $50.00 to $100.00 coming into your books or your account every month then you're going to need to hustle. this is philip he was convicted of robbery is crooked is is we are out here course crooked insider to whether it's drugs whether it's alcohol you've got people that they don't drink but they manufacture prune a wall d. is saying quit in the in the in the boiler room they found a still friends that i knew had actually gotten so far as to legs get the cover to bring tremendous trees over and so we had copper tubing they were making motion and saying quit. mainly they drank it to the hustle. so drove through our business recreation officer is like

a networking college for criminals of the month jordy of the guys in prison are there trying to learn how to do crime better and this is just kind of a school for criminals to learn more criminals and that's not an exaggeration the 2011 study from ohio university showed that after spending time in prison continuing to engage in crime scene their criminal earns increase on an average by a $1000.00 a year jodie lewin is the executive director of the prison. diversity project there are thousands and thousands of people in the system all they want is the opportunity to get a good education and to be hired by somebody where they can have a job where they have a meaningful work and a livable wage in the late eighty's early ninety's there were python 315 programs in the prison system nationwide i took my dad's advice been saying for a long time look for some computer training is there any computer training in there because he knows you know i finally when i got to san quentin i said do you have

any any computer training so it was great because i mean those who know the least obey the best you know and there's this rebellious kind of spirit in there stand still a big quantized i want to right now so there's this rebelliousness you know i could actually size my brain they can stop you from doing that so we really got this cried about our education particularly in that particular programming class and it was an honor to be able to fight the system as you might say by educating each other and then see me graduate that 8 years later my dad was really proud of me and our relationship just blossomed just became so deep and so so meaningful and dad was everything to me. and it was just 2 weeks after i graduated that he died.

moved to this. day and sure. they will miss. and here. again. they. room. when i signed this crime bill we together are taking a big step toward bringing the laws of our land back into line with the values of our people in 1904. congress passed the violent crime control and law enforcement act which among many other things barred people in prison from receiving. most of those programs folded almost overnight to be realistic everyone should have a college education or it's already been open too much. but if they have skills such as welding walton on the shore to. go through the wall and program and they're making $3040.00 on their own streets and they're writing letters back to the

instructor over here those are. these guys new jobs so there won't be a problem still going to turn into the go you know during the drugs and that type of thing so that's what are the critical reason number one why people are ending up in prison is for a lack of really quality educational opportunity the american public in general has been so profoundly brainwashed into thinking that what we're doing with our prison system is somehow normal or rational or. just. i find that overwhelming and exhausting i mean because i'm the more you spend time in. inside and the more content you have of people who've been directly affected the more deprived. appear over 20 percent out of every inmates are physically attacked every 6. out of the violence you see in prison is an expression of the character of the people in prison it's people reacting to the

situation and this is something so few people understand if you took a 1000 people off the street and put them. he. would end up committing violence because of the situation that they've been placed in 5 years into as an older inmate whose nickname was the devil want to be ready to take the blame for a knife that guards at the yard but reggie refused later would say. the devil was going to kill him or he had to kill the double. could have been about the situation any other way and no matter how many. this was the only thing that could have happened. because i never been in the 1st place. you turned me into. this whole time and you turned me into a murderer because. after that they put terry confinement and he went from

a life sentence without possibility of parole to facing the death penalty. so he gets put on trial for the death penalty case and his lawyer starts looking into his original case and gives me a call and says you know i think this guy is innocent of what he went to prison for the 1st books and the 2nd reason besides the prison was this miracle to happen to be a book. about the homicide division the author of the book documented right along with the detective. this homicide investigators 1st night that she was on the job that they. every night she investigated the murder she would ultimately . flipping through the book and reading it and all the stuff in it those never disclosed the difference it's all documented that all indicates pretty clearly. that it would still take the innocence project 10 years to get out of prison.

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