is for the amusement of the public. this type of execution was called the devil's when the obliteration of the mutiny resulted in the death of 800000 inhabitants of india. however, the british empire never broke the free spirit of the indians and their will for resistance. in elementary school, the teachers called me back problem kids and saw i was labeled early. i ended up getting kicked out of school. i was 1617, and 18 though. she's been my graduation high school years, but instead i'm on the streets selling crack, gang bang. and they can that i was going to make to see 21.

i would get dresden already ride the bus to the hill 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 they not 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 in fear. 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 what i should have known then.

me my mom was my 1st love. up until the mid eighties, when cracked became the reason to be for her. it was okay, but she had an addiction and it grew monstrous. her addiction to crap. so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. it was one of the things 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 felt knowing how limited my option to work. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't stand on the corner. i didn't do drive by, but i had a boyfriend did, and i had a 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 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. the savings will be used to put a 100000 police officers on the street a 20 percent increase. it will be used to build prisons to keep

a 100000 violent criminals off the street. you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are 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 schatten 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 fear. when you have a country that is based on or that has grown out of colonization, and slavery, people 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 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 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 . 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 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 a private washing. it's very, very easy to instigate beer. that's what happened in the 3 strikes because the face 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 predators. 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 the gangs everywhere. john and i were to go to the f. b i task force. they were for me to 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 willing to hide their houses. this is our hill all we want you to know it. go by your jack, all up or lake. we don't come here, you've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, police and directions, least willing to take to the streets. you want to know why we're having success with our federal task force because they set them up all over the country and not all of them are kicking like we were in the wanted to know why john and i knew the gang members from work and the street and so we kind of knew who they should be targeting. oh i place starting to more sleep saying would just get the kids and mound and left for whatever little reason they could if they could get them on a sentence and give them the long keep them from ever coming that is to plant

no police, keith plague guns only escaped kicking doors and get the search one later. i got you. when i got you down in a damn bay annotate, they got you one them, rules all by yourself in it because you by yourself, you want to jail, may not have them even been a criminal activity. they just because they were out there, they get him just unloading if i was walking to the corner store and i and i saw a house little further up and 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 everything that happy. i wasn't able to see it, the install wasn't able to avoid detract ourself from me. a lot of which weren't, i don't wanna excuse any of the crimes that were committed because there were carm's committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in the friends that they chose. and it was 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, least i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets in my own investigations long as i was producing, they left me alone. so 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 change some law in a hard time for arm crime in 1094 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 sense as to 1st to be murder, i probably would have had 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a far from a motor vehicle on that. so you said you 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 aggravating 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 prism. criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race ah, american prison, abraham lincoln said a house divided against itself cannot stand. this famous phrase appears to apply to europe today when he comes to the conflict in ukraine and russia. can there be a united europe without

a jagger's archipelago told me that she goes to san diego garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, is now the location of a very large u. s. military base. you can go from med div our i to the us government to make a re base and just deported or the douglas and people from their country. so they call it return back on the island. no, no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm fat real fast. being for the right i, we do not consider the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle sins and on the question of self determination, the legal advice we have received is actually the chickens, onenote, and arnold, a people. for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do. a full the tumbler said committee to

return back home is known as the support from the nomination. di commission, african united michigan. don't care about chug or send people ah your said humanity. you said to privacy you're surrounded by middle and green human eye. you feel like cattle, you feel like something that's not real. they

shoot down searching. it's a roller coaster on your emotional well being. put in a shell, a by pin fill with people that you don't know you never, you don't know what they're there for. what their bell is, a deprivation to your sanchez, hard 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 need to just say many lab was to go labs sleep on. and that's basically it, there is no rehabilitation, there's no repair prison as a socializing force and total institution does it work by and large, now people learn to become antisocial. it's not designed to help

anybody well, 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. it kind of makes them internalize that here nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people ah, i am able them handles on use all over like martin like slavery. normally when they get out of the edge. gotcha. so when i used to be a young man sitting in his room and i used to be talking about stuff that i didn't have no clue about it, i'm st. politics, policies, legislators and i used to hear people speak about these different type of thing that i used, that hate, not knowing institutional writing. i 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 christmas coffee 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 homes and a 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. mm.

mm. 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 like what out? it didn't grant me the opportunity to stay at one room. i gosh, the column by ah, had one roll. the black person's copies 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. it 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 in and so

eventually it wanna leverage from scrubs as united to know we've been able to get going. and so now as we started to 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 improving self. you begin to meet people who've been there longer than you've been alive. people want them since the seventy's. and so you realize that know what? they're really not letting people know how many god got 7 years or more or more did 3124

. that's a lot of that's a lot of my father's them all then the phone doesn't lot of mist 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 them 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 call a cheek. and it's for taken as a cation and creating has to me and come on and call it. i've been on it since

lucas kids in the same so you see was on the side i was on the healed. so we was really rivals back when he can get when he came here. i see him, he with any of all the b, p. c. and he went to start a teens program, it came up with the idea. we was like, ok to 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 do 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 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, we have degrees and all the time so, but then we also quickly came to the realization just because you have a degree doesn't mean that you can teach. eventually we begin to find guys who teach him 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 teacher classroom. and it was the 1st time i ever seen a classroom being taught without an officer and it was prisoners lift enough

prisoners. and so when i seen these guys doing and stuff i had to be part of the money, the g $40.00 a 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 of prison, human resources. and then the part of me coming on board with this was seeing what you guys were doing and wanting to get behind there. 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. is long a day 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. 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 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 stay there in my comfort zone. i continue to bill. ready lamar was coming up for his time a 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 they asked me when i went 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 started here . most of the people that live in this county worked at his prison. 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 black christmas tucker. the fear that i hear is that all, you know, the name as to block prisoners caucuses. 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 that you 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 it would. i think i go saw that was my concern. i used to think that not to gang bang was assigned the weekend. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check in, 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 making some of the same bad that we may also, we hope to be able to reach young people themselves. we believe in them and expect them to be fluent and add to the we're much we solidify the b p. c. here we wanted to move on to the next thing. start to teach program because this prison asked for a prisoner is, is canada mac of prisons in our state. this is where every person 1st comes to and

history. every person, if you're transferred from one prison to another place and you have to come to 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 foolish, 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 that ah, i ah need to come to the russian state full narrative. i've side as i phone and ignore some scheme div, asking him the knocking also something up for

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what is true was is faith in the world corrupted. you need to descend so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. it's amazing to see people share, right, because as man we talk about being strong unami, everybody wants to be strong man, but you know, we might be physically strong, but you know, are we emotionally weak? my son got incarcerated here and i learned will. my biggest fear was and he goes back into a di, had on the board about memory. my sons, gray phrase is charles policy and he said, your son used to say he was she could come to prison just so he can be what you.