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at the top of the hour. ah ah, with in elementary school, the teachers called me that problem cheers. and so 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 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 it scatter. when i oh, you know, watch a world like roaches. then i got addicted to be and feared. my mom was here to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner because she didn't have no help that rebel to give her what it wasn't her fault. we were in this

together and that's why i should have known then i, 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 grew monstrous. her addiction to crack so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be i mother was one of the things that 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 fell, knowing how limited my options were. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't sell in 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 they started rhonda, nothing unusual 1st but. and i was on my boyfriend with 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. 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 slammed shatt in 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 beer. 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 objectively, legislatures 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. 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 deer. 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 hill. all we wanted to know is don't buy your jobs in queue all up or lakewood. don't come here . you've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, lease and direction 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 lou and the police started doing more sweets. they would just get the kids and round and left for whatever little reason they could

if they could get him on a sentence. and given milan sentence, keep them from ever coming. that is to plant no police, keith, plague, guns, only skiffs, 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 you one them 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'd get him 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'll live round 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 the trash. now were safe 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 the friends that they chose. and it was in the friends that they chose, difference with, i grew up with, this is the neighborhood you live in. these kids, you went to school with these 2 people whose auntie, how she went to eat sunday dinner. and most of his just wake up. you say i want to be a gang member, this is what i'm going to be a license which is screw. went to that because this was exposed to an enabler.

last part of my career, i had the best job. mm hm. least i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets and 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 dinner, aggravated murder, a drama aggravated murder is the highest crime in washington. they changed 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 of the murder, i probably would have had 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle. i got 7, he said he 70 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 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 ah,

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here said humanity. you said to privacy you're surrounded by middle and human. i 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 8 by 10, fill with people that you don't know. you never may. you don't know what they're there for. what their balance 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 get to see many lab last to go slab sleep on. and that's basically it. there is no rehabilitation, there is no repairing prison as that socializing force. a total institution. does it work by march? no. people learn to become antisocial. it's not designed to help anybody. well, officers 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 handle don't use all over the light modern, but slavery, you know me when i get out of the edge of so when i used to be a young 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. i've been saying that 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 will say that that is 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 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 of that they may be absent from community, but there's still a part of community seeing people constantly outside every single week who cared about us and m santa. let us know that we were still part of the community. and not 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 there. a. i

was the president of the black, was caucus at monroe. i went to the hall for a class, a fraction possession of a cell phone. because i was life without. it didn't grant me the opportunity to stay at my room. i guy shipped a column by aah! at monroe, the black for his cockers 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. and i was kind of hesitant on allowing us to be able to have the name, black prisoners caucus, it was too radical for them. i think for something to have black. and i just reinforced that the black versus congress has a long productive history within the department of corrections in and so

eventually it wanna leverage scroggins as united and 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 improve yourself. you begin to meet people who've been down longer than you've been alive. people want them says the 7 you realize that know what? they're really not letting people only 7 years or more than 11341 and one person

does a lot of stuff. a love love all the 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 i want to try and live in a better life, right. we can never become somebody different, but we're going to become a better version of who we are. almost immediately upon antrim, or cloud bay. i found out that a few guys had just started a program and they call cheats. and it's for taken as occasion and create and help me and come on in college. i've been on it since lucas kids in the same place. he was on the side, i was on the heels. so we was really rivals back. and when he came,

when he came here, i seen him and 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 were a 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 are lot on their send. 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 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 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 who had degrees and all that 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 began to find guys who teaching was something that was a natural town. he said about creating all syllabus and all curriculum to teaching classes. started changing and shaping people's thinking. and from there, the worst one i got here and was working on the school floor blue by the teach 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

work order was to 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 prison, it's part of me coming on board with this with seeing what you guys are doing and wanting to get behind them. i was like, yes, finally, an opportunity for me to go and do something productive that wasn't provided before that inmates created. we've created a support group for, for positivity in the most unlikely of environments 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. was you 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 then we can upon, you know, they can think. 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 lamar 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 were 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 working to print 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 a people who form ignorant shore, cited 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 it 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 catch. i can 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 way make somebody say better see 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 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 through here. so as we in mit who's gonna 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. ah, children at saint and residential school suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture and child rape. and yet the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of page. the police have evidence that identified the perpetrators in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was, it was 7 years or just too high for me. so for me to put me in the chair by

the law warriors to run over here, be somebody then run here and she kept solution in the whip and sell. some of them are my relative. didn't make it jerking themselves to death over doors to but yeah, what 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 we've done, most of the damage never got charged. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on often very dramatic development only personally and

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