ah, 3 in elementary school, the teachers called me that problem cheers. so i was labeled early. i ended up getting kicked out of school. i was 1617, and 18 though. she'll be 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 will get dressed in all rare b. ride the bus to the hilt, just to walk around and wait for

a group of blues to approach me 1st, i would try to fight it tagged eisen. i walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and, and watch it 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 rebelled against her, but it wasn't her fault. we were in this together and that's why i should have known then ah, my mom was my 1st law. 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 so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. it was one of the things that broke me. 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 fell,

knowing how limited my option to work. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't stay on the corner. i didn't do drive by, but i had a boyfriend i did. and i had fooled myself in the thinking that if i just stayed on the fringes of that lifestyle, that i couldn't get caught up. it wasn't true when we started rhonda, nothing unusual suspects. and i was on my boyfriend, was all my protestations of innocence. they 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 build prisoners to keep a 100000 violent criminals off the street. you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are ah 1993. washington state was the 1st state in the

nation to implement the 3 strike policy and make it okay to put people in prison. 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 slam sat in washington state. we are still one of only 16 states that does not have the parole system. what's interesting about washington state is really reflective of what's interesting about the whole country. this country is based on beer. when you have a country that is based on or that has grown out of colonization and slavery, people don't 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 read 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 objective i legislatures to get reelected. i do get reelected, truly easy ponder podium and sam tough on crock of the children who have been k, o, the victims of bile, the public is fed up, and 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. and 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 is of resources on the private 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 is 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 over forming the task force or gangs. we met 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 go by your jackson pew, all up or lake. we don't come here,

you got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement. police direction from least are willing to take to the streets. you want to know while we're having success with our federal task force because it set him up all over the country and not all of them were kicking like we were in the 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 lou the place starting to in more sweeps, they would just get the kids and round him up for whatever little reason they could if they could get him on a sentence and give him a long sentence, keep them from ever coming. that is to play doh police, keith play guns on these gifts, kicking doors and they get the search one later. i gotcha. when i got you down in a damn bay in the take,

they got one of them rules out by yourself. and if they caught you by yourself, you're going to jail. may not have even been a criminal activity. they just because they were out there, they get them just on loitering, walk into the corner store, and i and i saw a house little further up. it looked nice. so i wanted to walk by in the police saw me, they would say to me, what you do in here. you'll live around here. one more entering on line in the narrative that we keep hearing is that there are people entitled to be here. even though folks know that this is not anybody, it's not their land. so that narrative of being in title and really protecting that is really what drives a lot. but we as a country, don't want to uncover that to pain. 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 happened. i wasn't able to see it finished or wasn't able to avoid the trash that were sent from me a lot of which i don't want to excuse any of the crimes that were committing because there were crimes committee. but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught in the friends that they chose. and it was even the prince that they chose. the principal they grew up with. this is the neighborhood they need, these are the kids went to school with these people whose house, with the sunday dinner and most of us didn't just wake up and say, i want to be a gang member, this is what i'm going to be in life. we just went to that because just were exposed to an ever last part of my career. i had the best job and i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets and my own investigations long as i was producing,

they left me alone. so i didn't have a lot of supervision by the late ninety's at the heel. top area was pretty much cleaned up in an aggravated murder. a drama, aggravated murder is the highest crime in washington. they changed some law in a hard time for arm 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 would have got sense as to 1st of the murder,

i probably would have had 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a fall from a motor vehicle. i got 7. you said you 7 years 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 aber 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 ah ah,

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 often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk and in needs to come to rush in. the state will never be tied up. i'm phoning most lansky with speaking with will van in the european union? the kremlin? yup. machine, the state on russia today and split our t spoke neck,

even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube with mm hm. with your cellphone. humanity. i mean you're surrounded by middle i you feel like cattle,

you feel like something that's not real. mm. shoot me down and search you roller coaster on your emotional well being put in a sale by pin sell with people that you don't know. you never may. you don't know what they're there for. what they're bell deprivation to your stance is hard to explain me. 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 say many lab us the labs sleep on, and that's basically yet. there is no rehabilitation, there is no repairing prison as

a socializing force and total institution does it work by and large, now people learn to become anti social. it's not designed to help anybody grow office. you should 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. i contact for a lot of prisoners, that kind of makes them internalize that here. nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people me why i'm in the hands of us all over like modern slavery. you know, i mean, when you get out of that guy as judge a, so i used to be

a young don't sit in the newsroom and i used to be talking about stuff that i didn't have no clue about, you know, i'm saying politics, policies, legislators. i used to hear people speak about these different type of things. i use a 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 would say that that is kind of one of the things that she sent me. oh my quest. i wanted to learn when i think that the opportunities with the black prisoners caucus slipped my interaction with free people, i'm able to really internalize and i'm not an offender. i'm not a prisoner. i'm just a man who happens to be in prison. one of the things that the black prison is caucus says is 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. not 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 ship the column by ah, hello, the black versus caucus 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 administrators. 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 for something to have black. and

ah, i just reinforced that the black person has a loan for this history within the department of corrections ah, with. and so eventually a library scottish never been able to really be going. and so, you know, as we started to have some of our 1st meetings, 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 really stay committed on improving self? you'll begin to meet people who've been down longer than you've been alive. people want them to 7. and so you realize that know what? they're really not letting people probably be gone 7 years or more

than 113411. 34. does a lot of stuff, a love love all the from the all been gone. does a lot of this, there's a lot of this. 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 come a better version of who we are. i almost immediately upon antimony bay, i found out that a few guys had just started

a program and they call teach and it's for taken education and creating has to me and come on and call 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 them. but when he came again, when he came here, i seen him, he with any of all the b p. c. and he went to start a teen program. it came up with the idea. we was like, ok, they do it. there were several of us were at 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 their sentence. 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 each program go to waste

or do we figure out a way to make it flow? so later we came up, we would just teach the class work backwards from here, and then we're just gonna move on. we know that 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 the classroom setting to a y equals negative a negative is positive. we 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 just because you have a degree doesn't mean as you can teach. eventually we begin to fine guys who teach him was something that was a lateral counselor. he said about creating all the bases and all curriculum teach in all classes with a story changing and shaping people's thinking. and from near to worse spray.

when i got here and was working on the school floor, i blew by the peach classroom and it was the 1st time i ever seen a classroom being taught without an officer and it was prisoners lived enough prisoners. and so when i seen these guys doing and stuff, i had to be part of the money with $2.00 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 wanting to get behind. now 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, 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 as they separated, we got to worry about them coming together, becoming knowledgeable, fixing the social issue, 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 that we can apart with in the session. at 1st i really didn't want to leave column by because it had things that we were doing have dared. i were so powerful in the relationship that we have with administration. i didn't think that we're going be able to duplicate some of those things. so i thought to state air in my comfort zone, i continue to bill lamar was coming up for his time, a leave also,

the more set his mind 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 a transfer, 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 worked is present. this is not a diverse community. the most diversity they have is behind these barbed wire fences. some days they have a challenge accepting me. so i can only imagine what challenges would be around a black christmas caucus. the fear that i hear is that all, you know, the name is to block prisoners carcasses. 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. welcom, do a washing corrections that are thank you for being here today. i attended the summer and i was speechless. i listen to the stories that were being told, the things they had to say what really resonated with 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 thinking 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 kinda check in and do an introduction. see what it was about, and when i sat down, i did want to get back up. we hope to help young people away make us some of the same bad decisions 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 is start to teach program because this prison asked force, prison is, is canada mac of prisons in our state? this is where every person 1st comes to an issue. every person, if you're transferred from one prison to another place and you have to come through here. so as i 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 influenced 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. ah, i o,

i leave the la city where the temporary journey's tree degree higher already from the neighboring town. you know, right? because the other townships haven't shopped of the trees, but in taca, in the name of development in our ship to become a captain like single board, we are all going for our nation just covering all of the grades we've gone. so when you distract nature, it takes every danger, ah ah, with 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. the fact of ignoring the religious beliefs of the hindus led to the mutiny of the see boys mercenary soldiers serving under the british crown. rebellion 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 to the colonial authorities dealt with the rebels cruelly, the enslaves, 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 when the obliteration of the mutiny resulted in the 800000 inhabitants of india. however, the british empire never broke the free spirit of the indians and their will for resistance. mm. breaking news hospital in the russian city have done yes, has been hit by a ukrainian massage, with a number of casualties reported with one pavilion is killed and 8 wounded in russia. belk about legion off the shelling from across the border by ukraine. 3rd rally on math, it's a key check point in northern course against what they call unprecedented depression. but christina, with nato led peacekeepers stepping in to secure the area.