the bmc or 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 why i should have known the, the, 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 crap. so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. that was one of the things that broken 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 saw 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 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 that did and i had fooled myself into thinking that if i just stayed on the fringes of that lifestyle, that i couldn't get caught up. that wasn't true when they started around and not single suspects. and i was on my boyfriend was one of my protests that ations of

innocence. it is fell on deaf ears. there must be no doubt. 5 who side were all people who commit crimes should be called 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 menu bar. 1993 washington state was the 1st states in the nation to implement the 3 strikes policy and make it okay to put people in prison and throw away the key. there are many people who 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 the 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 conservation and slavery. people who 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 site it is, no one sees easily in this country. mister speaker, i simply want to say, legislators have on inherent conflict of interest. the number one objective in the legislature is to get re elected the also, how do you get re elected? it's really easy, found your podium and sam, tough on crime of the children who have been killed. the victims of bias, the public is better and that means more prison todd, and we have

a greater percentage of our population in prison right now in 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, it 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 and washing. it's very, very easy to instigate beer. that's what happened with 3 strikes. because the face of the threat then became young, black and brown. man, 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 in the present. it is asked the f

b i to launch a very concerted effort against games everywhere. john and i were to go to the f. b, i task for cyber form and a task force or gaggs. we know what the drugs are, privately, i should go around the country and you see communities everywhere. people who no longer are going to hide their houses. this is our hill, all we wanted to know is go by your jobs in queue all for lake. we don't come here, you've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, police and directions, police. but what i take to the streets, you want to know while we're having success with our federal task force, because it set them up out of the country and not all of them kicking like we were in the 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 the,

the place started doing more sweeps, they would just get the kids and round them up for whatever little reason they could see if they could get them on a sentence and give them a loan. keeps them from ever coming that is to plant built in these keys, plague guns and escaped chickens doors and they get the search warrant later. i got, you got you down in a damn bay and the date they got, you won them lose all by yourself. and if it costs you by yourself, your going to jail may not have been even been a criminal activity. they just because they were out there, they get them just on low during finals walk into the corner store and i and i saw a house little further up that i thought look nice. so i wanted to walk by and the police saw me. they would say to me, what you do on here, usually around here, 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 pay given a race based country such as we are the people that really are impacted by the poor us. and the black is the looking back. now i'm able to see everything that happy. i wasn't able to see it. the so wasn't able to avoid the trash that were set for me. a lot of which one. i don't want to excuse any of the crimes that were committed because they were crimes committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in the furnace that they chose. and it wasn't even the friends that they chose to friends with. i grew up with this has been able to do, they need, these are the kids you went to school with these, these people whose on the house and with the sunday dinner and most of us didn't

just wake up and say, i want to be a game member, this is what i'm going to be in life, which is good went to that because this will expose to enable the last part of my career and the best job police department. i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets in my own investigation. as long as i was producing they left me alone. so do you have a lot of supervision by the late ninety's at the hilltop area was pretty much cleaned up. the american jacob aggravated murder. the drama

aggravated murder is the highest crime in washington. they changed some law in a hard time for on crime in 1994 that says if a murder occurs during the discharge of a fire or from a motor vehicle, then you can be subject to the death penalty or life in prison. if i would have got senses to 1st degree murder, i probably would have as 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle and at $777.00. use. the reason that the judge did not have the ability to give them the 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 words for gang members to shoot from a car. it was a clear reaction to the fear, black and hispanic individuals, a weapon to the commission of the crime. the promise of the criminal justice system is that he rises above the race. so would be the title of the when i work in washington state, it's a state that is overwhelmingly why that's not true when i go into a prison. criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race. the

look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to place a trust rather than fit the job. i mean with artificial intelligence, we have so many with the in the a robot must protect this phone. existence was alexis plus the c dot silver. so the book to somebody how can it be that um the ship to the middle east from

a country who is 12 official is constantly complained about shortages of our munition and military equipment. is fluid low paying the boy a bit of boss locally in the, in your system and below grade level nominal facility or some of those other slash we, i'm about to the easiest keen in the middle. so one of the easiest on bottom of the solar. well, nice to have to kind of get used to have gone on now. well, why are weapons from ukraine spreading over the world? to turn this country into a major arms hub, will continue to bolster ukraine's and forces by rushing them occasionally is that they need to defend their country. the everyone knows very well that we don't sell but known as pineapples or any kind of children's toys. we sell women's yes, we're also known in the world as homes dealers that we must not be ashamed of them . the

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around the feel like cattle. you feel like something's not real the down in search, low cost on your emotional wellbeing. you put in a sale 8 by 10. so with people that you don't know you never been, you don't know what they're there for. what the bell isn't. deprivation to years. answers hard to explain. 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 give us the minutes lab for us to go slab to sleep on. and that's

basically yet. there is no rehabilitation, there's no repair present as a socializing force and total institution does it work by and large, now people learn to become anti social is not designed to help anybody grow officers 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 eye contact for a lot of prisoners, a kind of makes them internalize that nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people now i'm able to handle values all over a light minded slavery and i mean to get out of that

guy as you guys are. so i used to be a young those sitting in this room and i used to be talking about stuff that i don't have no clue about. you know, i'm saying politics, policies, legislators, nice to hear people speak about these different. i've been saying that i use it. okay. not knowing that 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 sent me on my quest. i want it to learn. i think that the opportunities with the black prisoners caucus, with my interaction with free people, i'm able to really internalize that i'm not an offender. i'm not a prisoner, i'm just a manual happens to be in prison. one of the things that the black presidents call to says is that they may be absent from community, but they're still

a part of community sales. people come from the outside every single week who cared about us. and i'm saying 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, then we might as well stay in here was the president of the black caucus at monroe. i went to the home for a class and fraction possession of a cell phone because i was life without. it didn't grant me the opportunity to stay at my gosh, if to call him back the office was especially a large part of every day. this was going on, but when i got here that was enough, i basically just reached out to ministration. and it was kind of hesitant on

allowing us to be able to have the name, black prisoners congress. it was to radical for them. my favorite for something to have black and the just reinforced the platforms as long as it has a loan for doctors history within the department of corrections the . and so eventually it was never been able to to really get going. and so, you know, as we started to have some of our 1st meetings, 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'll begin to meet people who's been there longer than you've been a lot. people want them since the 7th and so you'll realize that

they're really not letting people on the sides. 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 way. we can never become somebody different, but we a better version of the

almost immediately upon ants and my crown may, i found out the fruit guys had just started a program and they called teach and just uh for taking education and creating has me and come on and all that i've been on and since with this kids in the same place it was on the east side. i was on the hill down. so we was really rivals back in when he kind of gave when he came here last night and he was and he was involved a, b, b, c. and he won the starter teams program. they kind of with the idea. we was like, okay, let's do it. there was several of us or call them back who had a lot of time to do and present and we weren't being allowed to attain education class. the priority for our education department is those individuals with 7 years or less 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 want it to get professors to be able to come out here, but we was 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 slow? so later we came up with was we'll just teach the class, work backwards from here, and let me know that we get teach math. we know that we get to driving. 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 settings. so y equals negative and negative positive. we reached out to a lot of prisoners, right guys, we have degrees and all types of but then we also just quickly came to the realization just because you have a degree doesn't mean that you can teach. eventually we begin to 5 guys in teaching with something that was a lateral town we set about creating all the syllabus isn't on curriculum. and general classes started changing and shaping people's thinking. and from

there, the worst rate when 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 half, 2 hours a 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 the corners is present part of me coming on board with this with seeing what you guys were doing and, and wanting to get behind there. i was like, yes, finally an opportunity for me to go and do something productive. that was it

provided before that inmates create. we've created a support group for, for positivity and the most on life of a virus. the we've been committed against one another for so long. it literally allows a prison to run itself as long as they stay separated. we've got to worry about them coming together, becoming knowledgeable, fixing the social issues at the end of the land and them in prison in the 1st place . the more do we begin to educate ourselves, the more empowered we become, the less manipulating we can be, the less oppressed we can be. now what we're beginning to realize is that we can get more accomplished together then we can apply the, you know, cuz it can, it can the sessions at 1st i really didn't want to leave column. but because of the things that we were doing up there, they were so powerful and the relationships 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 stay there in my comfort zone, i continue to view. ready to mar was coming up for his time to leave also. ready to more set his mind on shown, 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 to transfer, they told me shout. so i was happy. i see it were to do morning 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 store to you . most of the people that live in this county were this prince. this is not a diverse community. the most diversity they have is behind these barbed wire. since sunday's they have a challenge accepting me. so i can only imagine what the challenges would be around a black christmas called the fear that i here is the name is to block prisoners congress. it's, it's

a black gang. we should be fearful of the people who form, ignorant, short sighted opinions about things like that. having taken the opportunity to participate and learn really what is going on there. welcome to the washing correction center. thank you for being here today. i attended the you summit and our specialist i listen to the stories that were being told, the things that i had to say really resonated with me and drew me in the things that we have been through. 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 the gang bang was assigned a week. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check in to 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 away making some of the same

bad decisions that we may also, we hope to be able to reach young people themselves. we believe in and expect them to influence and add to the world. once we solidify the bbc here, we wanted to move on to the next thing and start to teach program because this present as far as prisoners is, is kind of the america of prisons in our state. this is where every person 1st comes to an issue where every person, if you're transfer him from one prison to another place and you have to come through here. so as we in inmates who is 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 are 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 the,

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