i would get dressed and all red b 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'd walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and, and watch heap scanner when i oh, you 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, what her fall. we will in this together. and that's what i should have known vain.

ah, my mom was my 1st love. 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 cru monstrous. her addiction to crack superseded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. it was either things that broke me. i didn't like the life that i was living, but somehow i fell 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 us knowing how limited my options were. 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 school 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 with all my protestations of innocence. this fell on deaf ears. there must be no doubt about. 5 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 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 strike policy and make it ok 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 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 interest 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 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 red 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 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. 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 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 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 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've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, police directions, 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. 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 hulu. the police started doing 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 them the long sentence, keep them from ever coming. that is to plant no police, keith,

plague guns only escaped chicken doors and they 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'd get them just unloading. if i was walking to the corner store and i saw a house lo 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 on here. you live around here on 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'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 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 . so i wasn't able to avoid the traps now were set for me. a lot of was one. i don't want to excuse any of the crimes that were community because there were crimes 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, the french would. they grew up with, this is the neighborhood they need. these kids went to school with these people whose auntie house she went to eat sunday dinner and most of them 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 this exposed to whenever the

last part of my career, i had the best job and i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets and my own investigation. as long as i was producing, they left me alone. so i didn't have a lot of supervision. me by the late ninety's at the hilltop area was pretty much cleaned up. mm. i can aggravate murder. i a drama. aggravated murder is the highest crime in washington. they change some law in a hard time for our 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 census to 1st to be murder, i probably would have had 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle and got 7. he said, he said, he's no reason that a judge did not have the ability to give him a sentence of less than life without parole. is that the legislature made it an ab 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 i. when i work in washington state, it's a state that is overwhelmingly quite true. when i go into a prism, criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race. ah ah

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at times dangerous, and very important job with your 2nd humanity to privacy. you're surrounded by human i. ah, 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 can sell with people that you don't know you never, you don't know what they're there for. what their bell, this is deprivation to your sense is hard to explain me. they'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 labs sleep on and that's basically yet there is no rehabilitation. there's 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 and 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. they kind of makes them internalize that you, nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people me why i'm in the hands of use all over like martin slavery. you know me when you get out of there. yeah, it's just 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 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 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 will 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 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. what are things that the black prisoners coffee says is that they may be absent from community, but there's 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 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 got shipped a column by ah, monroe, the black person office 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 with 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 with and so

eventually it won them one person scott, this is united and we've been able to get 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 improving self. you begin to meet people who've been there longer than you've been alive. people want them since the 7. and so you realize that know what, they're really not letting people know how many got gotten 7 years or more or more did searching or you know, wanted to start

for that's a lot of that's a lot of black fathers them all then that's go doesn't lot of his 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 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 test me and come on and call it. i've been on it since with his kids in the same so he was on the side, i was on the heels. so we was really rivals back when he can get when he came here

. i see him, he with any of the 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 to do him present and we weren't being allowed to attend education class. the priority for our education department is those individuals with 7 years are lot 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 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 as long as 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 a classroom setting to a y equals negative a negative is positive. we reached out to a lot of prisoners, right guys. we had 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 town. he said about creating all syllabus isn't 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 that stuff, i had to be part of the, with 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 prisons in the 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 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 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 after that, where i spoke to my counselor and he asked me where i want to go. when it came time he transferred a told me shout, so i was happy i sent word 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 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 actually can only imagine what the challenges would be around black christmas caucus. the fear that i hear is that all, you know, the name of the black 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 washington correction center. 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 to think 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 to gang bang was assigned a weekend. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check and do an introduction. see what it was about, and when i sat down, i did want to get back up help young people way make somebody say better suited 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 as far as prison is, is canada, mecca 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 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 so much 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 lou needs to come to the russian state. little, never the tires, unfortunately, no santini. div asking him then i'll send them up for a group in the 55 when. okay,

so mine is gonna be the one else with we will van in the european union, the kremlin. yup. machines, the state on russia for date and split our t spoke neck, even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube still with me. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race group is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time. time to sit down and talk.

blue children at st and residential school suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture and child rape. and yet the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of pages of police and evidence that identified those perpetrators in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years or 1st too high for me. so for me to put me in the chair by the law warriors to run over here, be somebody and run here and she kept solution in the way and sell. some of them are, my relatives didn't make it jerking themselves to death, over doses. but yet it made me make me the person i am today because i'm afraid i don't give up with anything. investigations

were too often handled differently because the deceased was indigenous. so many of the worst criminals got away the bishop's got away. the ones who done most of the damage never got charged it's amazing to 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 i learned will. my biggest fear was and he goes back into a di, had on the board about memory. my sons gray phrases charles policy. and he said, your son used to say he was, she could come to prison just like it be, would you in the moon with.