1617 and 18 though. she's been my graduation high school years. but instead i'm on the streets. selling crap. gang, bang and bacon that i was going to make to see 21. i would get dressed in all red b, ride the bus to the heel just to walk around and wait for a group of blues to approach me 1st, i'll try to fight it tagged eisen. i walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and, and watch up scatter when i oh, you know, watch a wound like roaches. then i got addicted to be and feared.

my mom was here trying to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner. but she didn't have no help. i rebuild. it gives her what it wasn't her fall. we were in this together. and that's what i should have known then. ah, my mom was my 1st love. up until the mid eighties one crack became the reason to be for her it was okay, but she had an addiction and it grew monstrous. her addiction to crack superseded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. that was either things or balcony. i didn't

like the life that i was living, but somehow i felt helpless to change it. i felt like i was just being carried on this wave of circumstance. not being able to have a job, not being able to be the person that i thought that i could be. i just couldn't seem to get to her. i remember a few days before being incarcerated, crying out to god and knowing how trapped i failed, knowing how limited my options were. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't fell on the corner. i didn't do drive by, but i had a boyfriend. i did and i had fool myself into thinking that if i just stayed on the fringes of that lifestyle, that i couldn't get caught up. that wasn't true when we started rhonda, nothing unusual suspects. and i was on my boyfriend was all my protestations of

innocence. i just fell on deaf ears. there must be no doubt about who side were. all people who commit crimes should be caught convicted and punished. their savings will be used to put a 100000 police officers on the street. a 20 percent increase. it will be used to bill prisoners to keep a $100000.00 violent criminals off the street. you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are 993. washington state was the 1st state in the nation to implement the 3 strikes policy and make it ok to put people in prison and throw away the key. there are many people who have rehabilitated their lives, who could be contributing to our young people, to our families, and that door has been slammed shut in washington state. we are still one of only 15 states that does not have the payroll system. the. what's interesting about

washington state is really reflective of what interest about the whole country this country is based on fear. when you have a country that is based on or that has grown out of colonization and slavery, people all rest easy. that's why everyone needs to be armed in this country to protect what they have. because what they have was stolen may not talk about it may not admit it, but it's there. whether you are on the red or on the blue. whatever side it is, no one fleece easily in this country. there was a drama georgia, mrs. baker. i simply want to say legislators have an inherent conflict of interest . the number one object of the legislature is to get reelected. i do get re elected to really easy ponder, podium and sam, tough on crime of the children who have been killed. the victims of bile, the public is fed up in that means more prison time. we have

a greater percentage of our population in prison right now than any society in the history of western civilization. can we have this high and mighty attitude about ourselves? i want you to imagine that as much as $60.00 to $0.70 out of every tax dollar in my county goes toward criminal justice. it is a horrendous waste of resources. if you don't care about people, it's a horrendous waste of resources on the profit washing. it's very, very easy to instigate fear. that's what happened with 3 strikes because the base of the threat then became young, black and brown. men. we need to take these people on. they are often connected to big drug cartels. they are not just gangs of kids anymore. they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predatory. no conscience,

no empathy. we can talk about why they ended up that way, but 1st we have to bring them to heal. and the president is asked the f b i to launch a very concerted effort against gangs everywhere. john and i were to go to the f. b i task force ever forming a task force or gangs. we mel with the drugs are privately, as you go around the country, you see communities everywhere, people who are no longer going to hide in their houses. this is our here. all we wanted to know is don't buy your drugs. if you all upper lake, we don't come here, you got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, police directions, least are willing to take to the streets. you want to know while we're having success with our federal task force because they set him up all over the country and not all of them are kicking like we were. and he wanted to know why john and i knew the gang members from work on the street. and so we kind of knew who they should be targeting. mm

mm. the police started doing more sweeps. they would just get the kids and round them up for whatever little reason they could if they could get them on a sentence and give them alonzo. keep them from ever coming. that is to play doh police. keith play guns only escaped kicking doors and get the search warrant. later i got you. when i got you down and a damn bay in the take, they got you one them. rules all by yourself in it because you by yourself, you're going to jail, may not have them even been a criminal activity. they just because they were out there, they'd get them just on loitering. if i was walking to the corner store in a in, i saw a house little further out than i thought, looked nice. so i wanted to walk by in the police saw me, they would say to me, what you do one here. you live around here

on the narrative that we keep hearing is that there people entitled to be here. even though folks know that this is not anybody's, it's not their land. so that narrative of being entitled and really protecting that is really what drives a lot. but we as a country, don't want to uncover that too painful. given a race based country, such as we are, the people that really are impacted are the poorest. and the black is looking back now, i'm able to see everything that happy. i wasn't able to see it, so i wasn't able to wait. the traps now were set for me, a lot of which i don't want to excuse any of the crimes that work committee because there were crimes committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in the friends that they chose. and it was even the print that they chose, the french would, they grew up with. this is the never that they knew these kids went to school with

these people whose auntie house. she went the sunday dinner and most of them didn't just wake up and say, i want to be a gang member, this is what i'm going to be in life, which is we went to that because just were exposed to an ever last part of my career i had the best job and i had the ultimate freedom to set my own targets and my own investigation as long as i was producing, they left me alone. so i didn't have a lot of supervision me by the late ninety's at the hilltop area was pretty much cleaned up. i can aggravate murder. i a drama.

aggravated martyr is the highest crime in washington. they change some law and a hard time for our crime in 1994 that says if a murder occurs during the discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle, then you can be subject to the death penalty or life in prison. if i what i've got since is to 1st to be murder, i probably went ahead 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle. i got 7 a, he said he 70 reason that a judge did not have the ability to give them a sentence of less than life without parole. is that the legislature made it an ab

voting circumstance to do a drive by shooting because he shot impulsively without knowing who was in the other car, but out of a car, only one punishment was appropriate. that law was passed because mostly white legislators viewed it as worse for gang members to shoot from a car. it was a clear reaction to the fear of black and hispanic individuals, a weapon in the commission of a crime. the promise of the criminal justice system is that it rises above race will be the title of the when i work in washington state, it's a state that is overwhelmingly quite true when i go into a prison. criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race. ah

ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally, i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk and needs to come to russian state will never be. i type, i'm phoning north lansky the best to him. i'm not getting hooked up with within the 55 when. okay, so my new student speaking with we

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you're surrounded by middle and when you feel like cattle, you feel like it's not real. they shoot down and search. you know, it's a roller coaster on your emotional well being put in a still a by can fill with people that you don't know. you never, you don't know what they're there for. what their balance is, a deprivation to your sanchez to explain. mm. you're away from everything that you know. i could not conceive of my life taking place within the walls that i saw

around me. we're going to give you 3 meals a day. we don't just say much lab less to go labs they fought, and that's basically it. there is no rehabilitation. there is no repair prison as, as socializing force had total institution. does it work by and large, now people learn to become antisocial. it's not designed to help anybody grow officers to make sure that you understand that you are a prisoner. when you find yourself in contact with them, they tend to look down as a way of not giving you eye contact for a lot of prisoners. a kind of makes them internalized that here nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people ah,

why i'm able to vehicles on you is all over. like my slavery. you know me when i get out of it? i had a schedule, so when i used to be a young sit in the newsroom and i used to be talking about stuff that i didn't have no clue about it. i'm st. politics, policies, legislators. i used to hear people speak about these different type of thing that i used, that hate, not knowing institutional racism. i used to hate watching cnn and see these guys talking about politics and have no clue about what they was talking about. but knowing that these decisions were affecting my life somehow and i was aided, that is kind of one of the things that she sent me on my quest. i wanted to learn. i think that the opportunities with the black prisoners caucus, with my interaction with free people, i'm able to really internalize it. i'm not an offender. i'm not a prisoner. i'm just

a man who happens to be in prison. one of things at the black prison coffee says of that they may be absent from community, but they're still a part of community in people constantly outside every single week who cared about us. and i'm saying to let us know that we were still part of the community. i always remember, mary, she said, if we planned on returning back to the community, how we came in here than we might as well stay in there. and i was the president of the black williams caucus at monroe. i went to the hall for a class a infraction possession of a cell phone. because i was life without. it didn't grant me the opportunity to stay at my room. i shipped the column by ah, hello, the black francisco office was essentially a large part of everything that was going on. but when i got here that was enough,

i basically just reached out to administrative and i was kind of hesitant on allowing us to be able to have the name, black prisoners caucus. it was too radical for them. my favorite for something to have black, and i just reinforced that the black vs congress has a long productive history within the department of corrections. a and so eventually it, it war on them. one person, scott, this is united to never been able to get going. and so, you know, as we started have some of our 1st meetings that the idea was now, what is it that we want to see, right? what are the opportunities that we need in order for us to, you know, really stay committed on improve yourself. you begin to meet people who've been

down longer than you've been alive. people want them since the seventy's. and so you realize that you know what? they're really not letting people know how many got gotten 70 years or more. i don't want to be searching, you know, wanted to start for a lot of that's a lot of my father in law than us go does a lot of his husband does like this. so it's not only do you have to make a commitment, but you have to make a choice. if i still want to continue live in the life that got me here, or i want to try and live in a better life, right?

we can never become somebody different, but we can come a better version of who we are i almost immediately upon, antrim, or cloud bay. i found out that a few guys had just started a program and they called cheats. and it's for taken as a cation and creating has to me and kamani called it. i've been honest with kids in the same place. he was on the side, i was on the heels. so we was really rivals back when he can get when he came here, i seen him and he with any of the ball, the b p. c. and he won a started teens program. they came up with the idea. we was like, ok, let's do it. there were several of us were a column bay who had a lot of time to do and present and we weren't being allowed to attend education class. the priority for our education department is those individuals with 7 years or less on there. so if you have more than 7

years, which a lot of people do, you don't get a chance to get an education. we wanted to get professors to be able to come out here, but we was too far. so the next thing was to either let your program go to waste or do we figure out a way to make it flow? so the way that we came up with was would just teach the class work backwards from here. and then we're just gonna move on. when we get teach math, we know that we could teach writing. and so it was more about the skill sets that we already had and being able to just really nurture those and provide those in a classroom setting to a y equals negative a negative is positive, reached out to a lot of prisoners, right guys who have degrees and all that type of stuff, but then we also quickly came to the realization is because you have a degree doesn't mean that you can teach. eventually we begin to find guys who teaching was something that was

a lateral town. he said about creating all syllabus isn't all curriculum, teach in all classes with a story changing and shaping people's thinking. and from near the worst spray when i got here and was working on the school floor. i blew by the teach classroom and it was the 1st time i ever seen a classroom being taught without an officer and it was prisoners, live enough prisoners. and so when i seen these guys doing and stuff, i had to be part of it with 2 half, 2 hours within the day. and we decided to diversify our board. this way we can attract more students, but also we can understand each other more. so is reaching all corners, it presently with part of me coming on board with this was seeing what you guys were doing and, and wanting to get behind that. i was like, yes, finally,

an opportunity for me to go and do something productive that was provided before that inmates created. we've created a support group for positivity in the most unlikely of environment with we've been kidded against one another for so long. it literally allows a prison to run itself as long of day stay separated, we got to worry about them coming together, becoming knowledgeable to fixing the social issues that end up landing them in prison in the 1st place. ah, the more that we begin to educate ourselves, the more empowered we become, the less manipulated we can be. the less oppressed we can be. now what we're beginning to realize is that we can get more accomplished together than we can apart. you know, cuz it can essentially, at 1st i really didn't want to leave column by because it had things that we were doing up there. and i were so powerful in the relationship that we have with

administration. i didn't think that we're going to be able to duplicate some of those things. so i thought to state air and my comfort zone. i continue to bill. ready no more was coming up for his time to leave also. ready the more sat is mine on shone and i went to my review right after that, where i spoke to my counselor and they asked me where i want to go. when it came time he transferred, they told me shout. so i was happy. i said we're to do more than i was coming and he sent word to say good, i'm glad because i mean having some problems with trying to get to pbc story here. most of the people that live in this county where it is prison. this is not a diverse community. the most diversity they have is behind needs, barbed wire fences. some days they have a challenge accepting me. so i can only imagine what challenges would be around black prisoners cocher. the fear that i hear

is that all, you know, the name as to black prisoners carcases. it's a black gang. we should be fearful of that. people who form ignorant, shore sighted opinions about things like that. haven't taken the opportunity to participate and learn really what is going on there. welcome to watch the corrections that are thank you for being here today. i attended the summer and i was speechless. i listened to the stories that were being told, the things they had to say what really resonated was me and drew me in the, the things that we have been through the things that we have been around. i would worry what others would think he would. i think i go saw that was my concern. i used to think that not the gang bang was assigned a week. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check in and do an introduction. see what it was about.

and when i sat down, i did want to get back up. we won't be helped young people, we might get someone to say that we may also, we hope to be able to reach young people themselves. we believe in them and expect them to influence and add to the world much. we solidify the b p. c. here we want to move on to the next thing and start to teach program because this prison as force prison is, is canada mecca prisons in our state. this is where every person 1st comes to an issue. every person, if you're transferring from one prison to another place and you have to come through here. so as we and am actually going to be here for a while, we see everybody in the state, they have to cross our pass. i see young guys all the time, come to here whose life i've been so much negative. that's something that i've had to live with, working towards having a positive influence on those generations. now it gives me a way to undo some of the wrongs that i've done in the past.

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but in time got in the name of development. any of our boat ship to become a captain like singapore. we are all going for advantage nation discovering all the breeds we've gone. so when you distract nature, it takes every danger. ah ah, by the middle of the 19th century, practically the whole of india had been under the rule of the british empire. the colonial authorities had imposed that heavy death bringing the people into poverty and were exporting natural resources. and moreover, these authorities absolutely had no consideration for the traditions of the local

population, treating them like 2nd class citizens. the british were showing signs of disrespect even to those who cooperated with them. of ignoring the religious beliefs of the hindus led to the mutiny of the sea boys, mercenary soldiers serving under the british crown. 3000000000 began on the 10th of may 1857 in the garrison town of may river, north of india. in the form of a mutiny. the rebels quickly took over daily. the heroic resistance of the indian people lasted for one and a half years. however, the forces were not equal. the colonial authorities dealt with the rebels cruelly, the slaves, the boys were tied to the mouth of the cannon and were shot right through their bodies for the amusement of the public. this type of execution was called the devil's with the obliteration of the mutiny resulted in the dead of 800000 inhabitants of india. however, the british empire never broke the free spirit of the indians,

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