please welcome shaka senghor.vor: how are you doing, man. >> great, great. >> trevor: thanks for coming to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: you have such a fascinating story. correct me if i'm wrong. it book was wonderful, are you from detroit. you were in jail for 19 years. you basically got arrested when you were 19. but you were in the life of crime from the age of 14. >> yes, 14 kreers old. >> trevor: and then you got shot. >> multiple times when way 17 years old. >> trevor: so you got i gun. >> yup. >> trevor: and then one day you turned that gun on somebody else. >> yeah, 16 months later. i fired four fatal shots was sentenced to 17 to 40 years in ri son. served 19, self then solitary confinement. >> trevor: that is such a crazy story. what is crazy is not just the fact that you were in, it is what you have done since you came out. i moan this is such a beautiful and fascinating story. but let's go back into that. the number one question pem ask, i even ask it when i raid this book. for somebody

. >> senghor started writing a journal and eventually a fiction. in 2010 he got released. >> when i got that letter from my son, i began to write a journal. >> reporter: today he spoke of a prison business that leads to recidivism, not rehabilitation. lock them up and throw away the key mentality because it doesn't work. >> there has to be life skills and spiritual growth and mental stimulation that speaks directly to the person. i'm a firm believer that our human potential to grow and turn our lives around is infinite. >> reporter: he mentors kids following in his packet. >> i'm going to drive to ann arbor. >> reporter: but his ultimate focus is on fatherhood. he has a 4-year-old now, a life he's determined to be a positive part of. >> it's just one day at a time, you know. waking up, living every day with purpose. i feel like i've done something meaningful for that day, whatever it is, it's a successful day. >> senghor is working with the group trying to cut the prison population in half by 2020 25. it's a controversial issue but one that is incr

my guest ton prison reform advocate and author of writing my wrongs shaka senghor joins us, people.bout the vinyl sofa stuffed with racist refrigerator poetry, i'm talking about donald trump. with his ever-increasing lead in the republican primaries a lot of people have started asking the question how dangerous would a donald trump presidency be? >> the economist economy's intelligence unit has now listed a trump presidency among its top ten threat to the world. >> in its updated global risk assessment, a trump presidency would be as dangerous to the world economy as the possibility of islamic terrorists destabilizing global growth. >> trevor: goddam! trump is as dangerous as terrorism? what a slap in the face to isis. 50,000 fighters and one man is the same level of world threat. like maybe one day we'll be flying and say i don't want to alarm anybody, but i think i saw a trump on the plane. how do i know? because he was wearing that thing on his head. that's his hair, come on, it's his hair. so this highlights the question i think many of us have been asking. how did donald trump

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senghor will discuss his 19 years in prison and weigh in on reducing the prison population. on wednesday, history and civil engineering professor henry will examine america's infrastructure at regulator bookshop. >> ..

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