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a gracie ologist who has devoted his entire life to the topic. it is a fascinating, at times dangerous, and very important job. in elementary school, the teachers called me that problem. she 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 bacon that i was going to make to see 21. i would get dressed in all red b, ride the bus to the healed just to walk around and wait for

a group of blues to approach me 1st, i would try to fight it tagged nicely. i walk in the middle and then i pull out that day and, and watch a scanner when i oh, you know, watch and 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. it gives her what it wasn't her fault. we were in this together. and that's what 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 her addiction to crack superseded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. that was one of the things i 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 can'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 options work. 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 fooled myself with 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 1st. and i was on my boyfriend, was all my protestations of innocence. this 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 prisons 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. 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 15 states that does not have the payroll system. the. 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 for easily in this country there was a drunk 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 with how do you get reelected, truly easy, ponder, podium and sam. tough on crime of the children who have been, you know, 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 waste of resources on the private washing. it's very,

very easy to instigate dear. that's what happened with 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 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 met with the drugs are privately, as you go around the country, you see communities everywhere, people who are no longer for going to hide in their houses. this is our hill, all we wanted to know is don't buy your jobs in queue all up or lake. we don't come

here. you've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership with involved lease direction least. will it 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. 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 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 alonzo, keep them from ever coming. that is to play doh police. keith play guns, a lease, keith kick in doors, and they get the search one later. i got you. when i got you down in a damn bay in the take,

they got one them. rules all by yourself. if they caught 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 unloading. if i was walking to the corner store in a in, i saw houses low further up and i thought looked nice. so i wanted to walk by in the police saw me. they'd say to me, what you do on 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 the 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 the traps. now were set for me. a lot of was weren't. i don't wanna excuse any of the crimes that were committee because they were clark committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in different that they chose. and it wasn't even the friends that they chose to friends with that grew up with this is the neighborhood you, they knew these are the 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 a life which is screw into that because this we were exposed to an enabler. last part of my career, i had the best job and it's always to work. 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 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 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 me 7 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle and that 777 years. i mean 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 into a ravine 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 words 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 raise until will be the title of the when i work in washington state to state, that is overwhelmingly quite true. when i go into prison, criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race. ah ah i ah, with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race. his on offense, very dramatic development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with

with humanity to privacy. you're surrounded by middle and green. when 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 still a by pin fil, 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 need to just say many lab us to go lab to sleep on. and that's basically it, there is no rehabilitation, there's no herring prison as that socializing for said total institution, does it work? by and large, now people learn to become antisocial. 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 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 them handles all use all over. like modern flavors. normally when you get out of it? yeah. as 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, 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 was, i did that as kind of one of the things that she sent me. oh 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 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 and the 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 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 room. i shipped a 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 administration. it was kind of hasn't in, on allowing us to be able to have the name, black prisoners caucus. it was too radical for them. i paid for something to have black. and i just reinforced that the black versus congress has a long productive history within the department of corrections with and so eventually it wanna leverage office that she,

that of that we've been able to really be going. and so, you know, 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, 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'll realize that know what, they're really not letting people know how many got gotten 70 years or more or more did 3124 . that's a lot of that's

a lot of my father's the one all been gone. doesn't lot of miss husband doesn't 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 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 cheat. and it's for taken as a cation and creating heston me and come on. and i've been honest with kids in the same so you see with 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,

let's do it. there were several of us who were at columbia, who had a lot of time to do in prison, 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 were 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 gonna move on. we know that we get teach math where 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, we 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 that you can teach. eventually we begin to find guys who teaching was something that was a lateral counselor. he said about creating all the bases and all curriculum and 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 th 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 the stuff i had to be part of it with half,

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 in 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 of 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 what we're beginning to realize is that we can get more accomplished together than we can't apart. you know, because 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 to 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 to leave. also, the mark 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 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've been having some problems with trying to get to pbc story here. most of the people that live in this county worked is printing.

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 a black christmas caucus. the fear that i hear is that all, you know, the name as to black 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 and the things that we have been around, i would worry what others would think would i think i go and 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 didn't want to get back up hope to help young people will 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 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 prisoners 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's 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 with housing for the negative. what it's kelly, even starting with the perversity, there's actually the inherited from colonialist. if you don't see done off with us to get it will not be forced to work on which is will not be on did any kind of privilege or power i was saying before that you know, you have to take that by force a body so that you can erase that old international system, and i'm only happy i'm thinking for case of

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