on the done net people's militia evacuating a monastery, i'll say it was shell by ukrainian forces. also, alexander cox of comes to mole sky a prompter for his coverage of russian paratroopers holding defensive lines under fire for a month or field near here regina or cova. all the talk project of the receipts of vanya media group is awarded to, for reports about a man who traveled from the western rushing city of columbia to the done yet republic in search of his fiance, katia, who had gone there to visit her parents before the conflict erupted in february. he has not heard from her since our maria mater can of the re and office the news agency for a report about a devastated town in the luke guns republic. the spike, much of the area being reduced to rubble. many local residents refuse to leave their homes congratulations to all just the story. the fit in before we go.

a tie. naval ship has sunk during a storm in the gulf of siam with more than a 100 sealers on board. no authority, se about 75 crew members were rescued, but another 30 will remain missing. strong winds apparently cost to ship to roll and nibbling water, to poor in on the subsequent power failure rendered the vessel and capable of being maneuvers. okay, short documentary time next year. and archie, it's intriguing le cats. how is some money to make it through the heart of war in all my expected ways enough to have moments to ah ah

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18 though. she's been my graduation high school years, but instead i'm on the streets selling crack, gang bang and bacon that i was going to make to see 21. i would get dressed and all ready ride the bus to the hill 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 iep scatter when i oh, you know, watch a wound like roaches. then i got addicted to be in fear.

my mom was here trying to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner. but she didn't have no help. i rebuild gives her what it wasn't her fault. we were in this together. and that's what i should have known then lou, my mom was my 1st law. up until the mid eighty's, when crack became the reason to be for her, it was okay. but she had an addiction and it grew monstrous in her addiction a 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 hopeless 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 felt knowing how limited my options were. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't sat 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. it wasn't true when they 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 bill prisoners to keep a $100000.00 and 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 live, 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 16 states that does not have the payroll system. what's interesting about

washington state is really reflective of what's interesting 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 who are 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 if there, whether you are on the read or on the blue, whatever site it is, no one please easily in this country. don't mister speaker, i simply want to say legislators have an inherent conflict of interest. the number one object of the legislature is to get reelected with how do you get reelected, truly 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 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. 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 jacks. if you all up or lake, we don't come here, you got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, least direction, least willing to take to the streets. you want to know why we're having success with our federal task force because it 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 ah,

the police starting to in more sleep, 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 them the land, 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 got you when i got you down and a damn bay in the take, they got you on the 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 get them just unloading. if i was walking to the corner store and i saw a house lo 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 when here. you live around here.

on the narrative that we keep hearing is that there are people who are 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's too painful. given a race based country, such as we are, the people that really are impacted are the poorest. and the black is mm. looking back now, i'm able to see every, not happy. i wasn't able to see it, the install wasn't able to avoid the traps now were set for me a lot of which weren't i don't wanna excuse any of the crimes that were committed because there were cars committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in the friends that they chose and it wasn't even the friends that they chose. difference with, i grew up with, this is the neighborhood you,

they knew these kids. you went to school with these 2 people whose auntie, how she went to eat 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 grew into that because this we were exposed to win, enable the last part of my career. i had the best job always to work and i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets in 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 with

a aggravated murder, a drama, aggravated martyr is the highest crime in washington. they changed some law in a hard time for arm crime in 1994 that says if a murder occurred 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 census to 1st to be murder, i probably would ahead 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a from a motor vehicle. i got 777 years. the reason that the judge did not have the ability to give them a sentence of less than life without parole. is that the legislature made it an a

rating 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 quiet. that's not true. when i go into a prison, criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race. ah

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oh, shoot me down in searching this roller coaster on your emotional well being put in the sale a by pin fil, with people that you don't know you never, you don't know what they're there for. what they're a bell is a deprivation to your sanchez tried to explain. 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 met slab was to go slap sleep on. and that's basically it . there is no rehabilitation. there's no real hair prison as that socializing force. a 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 internalize that here. nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people ah, why i'm able to make those all use all over. like my slavery. you know, mainly to get out of there. yeah. edge. gotcha. so when i used to be a young new sitting in his room 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 thing that i used that hate, not knowing institutional writing. 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 will say that that is kind of one of the things that sent me on my quest. i wanted to learn. i think that the opportunities with the black prisoners caucus slip 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 things at 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 santa, 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,

then we might as well stay in here. mm. mm. i was the president of the black, was 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 mom. i got ship the column by aah! monroe, the black person's 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 ministration. was kind of hesitant on allowing us to be able to have the name like prisoners caucus. it was too radical for them for something to have black and ah,

i just reinforced the black person that has a loan for duck this history within the department of corrections. ah, and so eventually at warner log business process, she's 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 improve yourself? you begin to meet people who've been down longer than you've been alive. people want them to 7. and so you'll realize that know what, they're really not letting people or you probably be 7 years or more than 11341 and one

does a lot of stuff. a love love always from the all been gone. does 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 want to try and live in a better life, right. we can never become somebody different, but we're going to be a better version of who we are. i almost immediately upon antimony cloud bay, i found out that a few guys had just started a program and they call teach. and it's for taken as

a cation and creating has to me and come on in college. i've been honest with kids in the same. so you see with on the thought i was on the heels. so we was really rivals back. and when he came, when he came here, i seen him, he with any of them, all the b p. c. and he went to start a teen program. it came up with the idea. we was like, ok, let's do it. there were several of us who were at column bay who had a lot of time doing 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 sense. 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 this 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 a classroom setting to a y equals negative a negative is positive. we reached out to a lot of prisoners, right guys were had degrees and sub sub. but then we also quickly came to the realization just because you have a degree doesn't mean as you can teach. eventually we began to find guys who teaching was something that was a lateral counselor. he said about creating all syllabus and all curriculum and in all classes with a story changing and shaping people's thinking. and from there, 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, lived enough prisoners. and so when i seen these guys doing that stuff, i had to be part of the work, the money order for those who have 2 hours within the day, 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 of prison. human resources. 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 as they stay separated,

we got to worry about them coming together, becoming knowledgeable to 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 while we're begin, it's realizes that we can get more accomplished together than we can apart with nick. and especially at 1st i really didn't want to leave column by because it had things that we were doing. i dared, i were so powerful in the relationship that we have with administration. i didn't think that we're gonna be able to duplicate some of those things. so i thought to state air in my comfort zone, i continue to bill. ready no more was coming up for his time to leave also. ready the more set his mind on shone and i went to my review right after that, where i spoke to my counselor and he asked me when i went to go,

when it came time he transferred a 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 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 the challenges would be around a black christmas cocher. the fear that i hear is that all you know, the name as 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. welcome to watch the 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 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 think would i think i go saw. that was my concern. i used to think that not to gang bang was assigned a week. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check can do an introduction. see what it was about, and when i sat down, i did want to get back up to help young people way 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 will must we solidify the b p. c. here we wanted to move on to the next thing and start to teach program because this prison as

forest 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 prison, you have to come to here. so as we in mit who is 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. i've actually found safety and embraces naziism as a jew, all of a sudden you're placed in a position where i can defend myself. now i don't have to be afraid anymore. on one

hand, i'm terrified that they're going to find out on jewish. but on the other, i think it's so far away. i distinctly remember my mom sitting me down one night and her st. john, they're going to her one guy hunch me behind my ear when i heard somebody so now in the rest of the punches are started flying and somebody shouted out, died, you boy die. and at that point i knew i remember had an indian doctor. they came in and looked and said, there's no medical reason why you should be alive. you to find something to believe . john story is a story of ho story, victory. whatever i can do to help him i would go ah .

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