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is amazing. i see people share, right? because as men 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 the alarm will, my biggest fear was and he goes back in with he had on the board about memory money. my says gray phrases transparency. and he said, your son used to say he wish you could come the prison just like it be. would you in that moment? i said, this is what you've left your child and this woman and your family to, to do. they say, you said if you ain't thinking you stay you're never too old to find out
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peace with your children, which yourself. mm hm. this prison is me into more like always call a blank canvas and a beautiful landscape. mm. i think that there are a lot of things that we can accomplish here. if you give an opportunity. mm. ah, everybody's watching everything they do. everywhere they go everywhere they gather, they have to really, really, really b up or to make this happen. they have to worry about being put in the whole. they have to worry about being moved to another prison, depending on how hard they pushed. they don't wanna be too vocal because they don't
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want to be signaled out as a security risk because they're being vocal about something that they want to learn . they can move them at any time. they could be take, you know, just rolled up and moved to another facility at any time for any reason. there's nothing i can say or do about it. mm. i'm pretty sure they steal down all the way up to this point. but you can't argue with our results. that's the thing that you can't argue. cameras in every classroom. bye. so we got a classroom camera start coming up in because it was like, okay, well we got to see exactly what's happening. but as good. not only put a camera in here, you can come and sit in our classroom and you can learn to with maturity, you think passively tooth wants intelligence without the guidance of another. well, cat is conveying, is that no one, not even
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a monarch or making impede enlightenment of the public eye. okay. okay. um i thought it was, i thought it was a difficult read pull. i thought it was difficult. i mean, that's what i graph of from it. you know, i'm not enough. am i wrong? this is my so, and it's not about right or wrong. it's about interpretation. no one can say if your interpretation is wrong, we don't have a manual can here to be able to ask them. what did you mean by this? and you have english scholars literary scholars will try to explain to you what somebody left 20300 years ago, literally meant when they don't know what am i gathering from this? and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters is what you're gathering, right? because there's a lot of people here who are under ikea, that are kind of exceeded our boundaries as prisoners. if somebody is lying to you, if somebody is a guy,
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i'm always been so scared about how i've looked on people the death of corey, how him being a young college kid and me being just, you know, some hoodlum from tacoma, how anybody would be able to kind of see the person that i've become or my manager has something that's always been a fear of mine. nobody would really ever give me a chance. ah, washington state does not have pool waiting up for role in the early ninety's. what it replaced parole with was determinant sensors. in other words, i'm going to send to you to a period of time and it cannot be reduced, doesn't matter what you do in prison. that's your sense. washington has started to
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figure out that system is not very jobs that doesn't work. and so they've started to bring parole back. actually brought girl back for sex offences. and the other group is juvenile is kemati, had committed the crime. 61 days earlier in 2 months passed his 18th birthday. he will been in juvenile and he be eligible for parole today. problem with punishment . the problem with setting a life without parole sentence. for somebody who was 18 years old at the time in the crime is you don't know who he's going to be 20 years. ah, it was never really something that i was intending to have while i just got curious . i because there was a lot of people who are actually going home to crunch. the 1st thing i did is i kind of started writing letters to some attorneys about what was the possible and
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then a week, you know, he sent me a letter and told me to call. he said that doing my clemency will be something that he will be willing to do. ready today we filed a clemency petition with the washington state clemency board its a formal request asking for a commutation of commodity sentence, asking the governor to change his life sentence to essentially credit for time sir, to let him go. the different family members that have been to prison and seen him even some went and spoke with him. different people would tell me he's changing. he's trying to be a better person. but the point where he wasn't ready to accept then ah,
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i had thought about reaching out to him. i was start to write them and then i throw it away. i did that probably maybe 6 or 7 times. and then i just said, okay, forget it. ah, probably 6 months after that killarney send me a message. i read it. i read it a couple times over and over. i let my family members read it. my grandmother, she raised me from the time i was 6 months old and she always instilled in as a spirit of forgiveness. and he had asked me for my forgiveness in his message that he said to me. and so i told him i said, ah, i forgave you a long time ago. i am not gonna forget what happened at the but i forgave you. as i understand the challenges you may have had
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growing up and i'm not excusing her behavior. but i forgive, you said not only am i for giving you for what you did at to forgive you to allow myself to move on and to heal. ooh, while while he was in prison, his daughter was murdered. she was 3 and a half his oh, when she was murdered, the lady that beat my granddaughter to death. i forgiven her. she didn't have the tools to be a mother. she grew up in such a violent atmosphere and was in a gang when she was in lavin. and so when she had my grand daughter, she wasn't capable of showing love art. she didn't have, she didn't know how. and so in an angry drug, addicted rage,
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she beat my granddaughter to death and i'll always miss in iowa, and i would be 23 years old. now, would i want her to have a 2nd chance? you know, because i feel like she never had a chance. i remember when i was in olympia fighting for this bill. i mean, i was a mother trying to fight for her son and i for people to get out in corral. but all these victims came in the 2nd year, and i thought, you know, well, i've been victims who, you know, and i thought, you know what, maybe next time we go to fight for this bill. a be a victim supporting the bill where they go up and say, i'm a victim and i am against this bill. i'm going to be, i'm a victim and i'm for this bill. now, we are in this dichotomous, either victim or your perpetrator. it's not true. victims are perpetrators, perpetrators of victims. and we have to get to a place where we have them were all victims of the sister. i've had
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a son who was murdered and i have a family that had different ideas about what justice meant and what they wanted to come out of that process. and i think that had, i not had the experience that i've had it with the black prisons caucus over 20 years. ringback i may or may not have had the same feeling about that, but i was able to immediately forgive. it requires that we look historically will be contextualize what is happening so that it's not just, i did something to you or you did something to me. there's other environmental things that are pushing our behavior, impacting our behavior to each of us has the capacity, the unfortunate capacity to do terrible things. if the wrong set of circumstances are presented, we need to get to a place in this country where people can atone for their actions and where
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the hand of forgiveness can be extended. the prisons are not institutions that detail. the good things that happen in prison. but every once in a while, a prison official recognizes that an individual has accomplish something that deserves being talked about in commodities case. a prison official told me that commodity had done more in terms of race relations in prison than anybody who had ever worked at that prison, that included professional staff. ah, we submitted our petition with a great deal of hope because we felt that commodity had satisfied somewhat vague standard of showing extraordinary circumstances. merritt gene, a change in his sense. i think that is more about them being able to,
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to the commodity that i've become and not the commodity that i watch. so i think that they deny me as because they haven't got past that point me a call. you will not be charged for this call. this call is from an inmate at a correction center, which calls will be recorded and monitored. if you wish to block anything to the cause of this nature, dial 7. now to accept this call, press 5. now, to decline this call. hey, thank you. ah ah. in 1884, the german empire began its colonial invasion into namibia. from the very start,
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berlin encouraged the white colonists to settle in south west africa and take away the best land from the local tribes. the germans were actively draining natural resources and using the local population as a cheap labor source. this was causing major protests and led to a rebellion. in 19 o 4, the hero and nama tribes rebuild against german colonial rule. kaiser wilhelm, the 2nd was fully determined and ordered to suppress the rebellion with the utmost severity against the inhabitants of namibia. germany through is 15000 well equipped army. all around the country concentration camps were built. in humane medical experiments over citizens were conducted within the period of 4 years. the germans killed up to 60000 people, among which there were 80 percent of the hero tribe, and 50 percent of the nama tribe. the events in south west africa are called the
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1st genocide of the 20th century, and not without reason are compared to the holocaust just 2 decades later after the massacre in namibia hitler's assault unit put on the same brown colonial uniform which push the world into the chasm of the 2nd world war with oh, i mean no, no, no changes. i do normally during the 1st letter,
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worst myself person ah letter worse must i don't want to lose faith. only mc junior. more along. what you dorn, because you're helping the next person get out of jail and katrina, stay out of jo to be about her father saw brother personal society available. sharon, let me log in which of my interest is in people like commodity who worked on rehabilitation and who've been told by the system, you will never get out. it does not matter what you do in prison. it will make no difference in terms of where you die. i want to be able to say yes, it will. because i believe that somebody like community makes our community
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a better community. ah, this is that they're all on the same just in different stages of right. so this one? yes. for that one's really really right. and there are several that term proposal just different varieties i was released in june. i was at work release until november 5th. during that time i worked with the school and now i am still on monetary community, gusty and i live with my family. i'm just trying to, ah figure it out. aah! free wills, it's all free or is not equitable. so if you have the resources to have
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5 options open to you and i have the resources they have to open to me. how free am i to really choose? and as long as society debbie's up opportunity and resources where a certain kind of person has 5 and another kind as to for nothing except for superficial characteristics that are outside of an individual's control. it will be society's fault that prisons are full a society, the state, the government, institutions, all these words that we're, that are big and morphis that, that we're trying to trying to make in this concrete thing that has power over us is us. and we are complicit in our own captivity as long as we
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don't know that they are us with our tuesday about is we're right. we get about justice, right. what is justice? i'm with what come to mind when we hear the word justice with when they say more on call room with her. okay. was oh corruption go roma,
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prison for fresh operation. oh mm hm. i don't wanna fail but you guys are being a little bit negative right. because justice is related to all the bad the there has has happened to was right. so yeah, of course we, can we go with the negative, right? because of all of these there. i mean, go room, well being in a corner, most of us have negative experiences when it comes to just do a justice system. yeah. okay. so, so let me, let me make kind of rephrase that. when i, when i think up just is our dba, these plasma by year and, and in teach by, in general with all the class is doing is to, is dorothy church justice. i at some point in life there was something that was missing from marcell opportunity that we never had. right. so by i was gonna
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teaching the chair is something new, something that can empower. i think he's doing the church just. mm hm. just this is the penalty or reward for one's actions as i penalty or reward because justice can be serving a good way or so. i just want to make sure that everything that i do understand is wrong, eventually come back on me, some shape or form. and that to me is just is the good things that i do. we've actually come back to me in a go and, and bad things i do. i come back to me in a bad way. it's about integrity for me or so i just think that justice is always watching. justice isn't. is in a thing dislike, you know, if you, if you break the laws of the land, you'll be locked up. that's a small part of justice. but just this is even bigger than that just as she controlled it. things that you'd normally nobody else is watch an awesome
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justice has to be individualized. justice has to ask, how is the community harms and how can we make it better? and what role should this individual have in making that community better? yes, that's a tough one. i'm not certain oliver know what justices justice i'm not sure if i thought ever thought about that much just to our part in the system and in the next part, how to do their part the the lawyers on both sides in the judges. but i would still feel good about the far i did this is not about a prison education program, and to be very clear. it is not about the department of corrections at all. they
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just geographically happened to be oppressed there. they could be oppressed anywhere else in the community. ah, it's a trip because we got some class issues going on. there are many of us who do not believe that people are in prison. could have the answers to our problems. ah, we do not believe that the people sleeping out of the bridge can have the answers to their reality. ah, because we have people with ph. d and master's degrees, who then have been certified to do that work. and they have been doing it over and over and over and over and over again. i'm in a, in a system where we've had a 10 year plan that is now turned into a 20 year plan. they just change a name and his gang, those brothers, no gang. so for all of the classes that we offer to some, we can't wait just for people in prison. aaron's children have the solutions to our
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problems. and what we will do it 10 years. if we don't attend to this, we'll be visiting some that when i'm, i will put that on your babies. but it's really the truth. don't think it's natural, ah, because they got the deal, see the deal, t, the federal detention center, the juvenile system. everybody's in the business. ah, and then wait for the education system to fail. our babies so that they go in there . mm. that i don't want to blame deal. see, because it took a whole lot of institutions to get them there. we bail, we fail them in spite of that they've got the flu. aah!
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that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk a lot should buy for the model and use annual g d. p per capita is about $4000.00 euros. last does that. we've got a watch, a cost the seal for quite a few $1000000.00 kids. put them in your prison, you find them on the line to come out the door. they would have thought of unemployment is off the chance. moldova is territorial integrity. in sovereignty, we respect a country which enjoys financial support from the u. s. and the you is constantly
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