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ROR 156: DOGE · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if they
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  Speaker 1: the present a Department of correction read an in state
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  Speaker 2: This is Randall Bob currently serving one thousand, two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fourteen years for capital murder on Roberts, currently being
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  Speaker 2: housed at key Mount Correctional Center in Oakwood, Virginia, US A.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you do.
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  Speaker 1: As the whole world knows by now, Trump and Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the little power couple of Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Nowadays they've been pushing DOGE, the Department of Governmental Efficiency,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm all for, by the way, like I absolutely
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  Speaker 1: believe in it, and this is something that should have
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  Speaker 1: been done freaking one hundred years ago, you know, nobody,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean nobody on earth waste money more than
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  Speaker 1: a government does. I don't care what government, capitalist, democratic, theocracy,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever, communist, socialism. They do nothing but waste money.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm all for I'm all for doge, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's it's within reason, though, I mean, at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you do have to spend
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  Speaker 1: money to get things done. I'm in prison, you know
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't surprise anybody by this point, been in prison
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  Speaker 1: for a long damn time, going on thirty four years.
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  Speaker 1: And you hear stories, you hear this and that, you
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  Speaker 1: know about uh, you know, for example, the kitchen managers,
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  Speaker 1: they usually always wind up taking a buying food that's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to come to us and just putting it in
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  Speaker 1: the back of a truck and selling it to the
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  Speaker 1: local restaurants and you know, family members for you know,
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  Speaker 1: a steep discount, and uh, you know, other other areas
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  Speaker 1: of prison graft and so on and so forth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maintenance departments. You know, they'll they'll buy tractors or equipment
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  Speaker 1: or whatnot using taxpayers money and then they'll turn around
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  Speaker 1: and you know they don't actually need it. Full the
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  Speaker 1: prison system and they'll you know, sell it to their
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  Speaker 1: buddy for five hundred bucks just to give them a
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  Speaker 1: sweetheart deal and you know, put a little extra cash
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  Speaker 1: in their pockets. Like you hear all these kinds of things,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, being in prison as long as I have,
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  Speaker 1: that blows my mind and it makes me wonder, like,
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  Speaker 1: if this is what they're doing, what other stupid ass
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  Speaker 1: are they doing out there? You know, y'all don't have
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  Speaker 1: to feed me a damn steak three times a week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not asking for that. I'm not asking for steak
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  Speaker 1: at all. I am asking for some decent vegetables, some
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  Speaker 1: decent fruit. That's not too much to ask for. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm in here subsisting on rawmen noodles and oatmeal and
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  Speaker 1: one pack of fish. Literally what I eat in a day.
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast's two packs of maple brown sugar oatmeal. Every now
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  Speaker 1: and then I throw in a spoonful of peanut butter. Lunch,
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  Speaker 1: I eat a plain buck naked, which is just a
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  Speaker 1: ramen noodle with nothing on it. And for dinner, I
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  Speaker 1: eat a ramen noodle and one pack of sardines and
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  Speaker 1: hot tomato sauce. And every now and then when I
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  Speaker 1: just I get hungry in between to the point where,
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  Speaker 1: like I know, I'm not gonna make it, I have
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  Speaker 1: to eat something. I'll eat eight saltine crackers with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of peanut butter on it. Like that's what
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  Speaker 1: I live off on, day in and day out, because
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  Speaker 1: the food is just, yeah, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: hell have The food in prison used to be pretty
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  Speaker 1: decent lately, just it got decent for like three months
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  Speaker 1: up here and then it just went back to straight garbage.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I've done that topic multiple times. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it again. My problem is though this like
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  Speaker 1: I'm living off of my friends. If it wasn't from
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  Speaker 1: my friends, I would probably be one hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: fricking pounds right now because I would be starving to death.
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  Speaker 1: There's definitely truth to it, because I've heard Damn Warten
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  Speaker 1: come out of his own mouth at Red Onion back
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  Speaker 1: in the day telling me that one day when I
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  Speaker 1: was complaining about the food and I was actually showing
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  Speaker 1: him my trade and what it looked like, and he's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you need to talk to the kitchen manager. She's the
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  Speaker 1: one selling y'all's food to the local restaurants. You're the
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  Speaker 1: Wharton dude. Put a stop to that, like it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of your job, you know. He looked at me like
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  Speaker 1: I was stupid and kept it moving. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the place where I've seen the worst draft, the worst
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  Speaker 1: misuse of government money, federal money, was when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the IM six closed Party red Onion. That's the
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  Speaker 1: part that I was in that you see me in
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  Speaker 1: the documentary Solitary looking side read Onion State Prisoner. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: in that pad had a job. Every single person in
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  Speaker 1: that paul had a job. And that cost the department
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  Speaker 1: between I'm gonna say between ten to fifteen thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year for every single inmate in that part to
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  Speaker 1: have a job. But that sounds like a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody's got a little you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: job keeps them busy blah blah blah and make a
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  Speaker 1: little money. They can buy a little hygiene, little food,
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  Speaker 1: little coffee, whatnot. You know, it's not as hard on
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  Speaker 1: their families, you know, having to make up for that
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  Speaker 1: because they've got a little something themselves. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it sounds good until you factor in this little
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  Speaker 1: thing that you don't know, the federal government was given
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  Speaker 1: the Virginia Department of Corrections thirty million dollars a year
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  Speaker 1: to run that program. The IM six closed pod received
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  Speaker 1: thirty million dollars a year. The inmates got somewhere between
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  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen thousand. So what happened to the other
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine point some odd million dollars. It didn't go
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  Speaker 1: towards programming, because there was no programming in that pod.
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  Speaker 1: We simply came out, got strapped to a table, rode
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  Speaker 1: sports all day, and went back in the damn cell.
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  Speaker 1: You know. They didn't get with games, they didn't buy
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  Speaker 1: things for us. Now, they didn't do none of that.
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  Speaker 1: They basically paid ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year
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  Speaker 1: for slave labor in that part rolling sports. With the
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  Speaker 1: entire prison system. Twenty nine million dollars, it didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I could understand if they would have took
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  Speaker 1: that money and they would have actually put it towards
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  Speaker 1: other parts of the you know, doc especially if they
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  Speaker 1: would have threw you know, through a million or two
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  Speaker 1: into the damn kitchen budget, that would have been sweet. No,
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  Speaker 1: So where did it go. It's pretty damn simple. It
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  Speaker 1: went into the higher up's retirement fund. I was in
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  Speaker 1: that pod for seven years, seven times three twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: so they received two hundred and ten million dollars while
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  Speaker 1: I was in that pod. We'll say they spend one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars on inmates for you know, for our jobs,
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  Speaker 1: to pay us our little salaries. That's almost a quarter
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  Speaker 1: of a billion dollars that was siphoned off. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of people they give Trump an old
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  Speaker 1: musk hill. Now they I can understand. They they do
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  Speaker 1: some pretty wild things, They say some pretty crazy ass things,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all hilarious. It is absolutely funny, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit scary at times. I'll admit that, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: damn shall don't like the fact that Chump came out
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  Speaker 1: and called Zelensky in Ukraine a damn dictator. That that
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  Speaker 1: one was pretty strange to be right there. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as holding people in government accountable for the money
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  Speaker 1: that they're spending, like, I'm all for that, because those
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  Speaker 1: are just a couple of examples. The states, every single state,
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  Speaker 1: all fifty states, received federal funding to help run their prisons.
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  Speaker 1: If I could talk to fricking munster Trump right now,
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  Speaker 1: I would do everything in my power to convince them
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  Speaker 1: to do this. One thing. Tell every single state, if
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  Speaker 1: you receive federal money, then your prison system is going
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  Speaker 1: to be absorbed by the federal Bureau of Prisons. There
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  Speaker 1: will be no more state inmates. Yes, you will, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your police will catch them, you'll send them to court,
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  Speaker 1: you'll judge, and blah blah blah blah. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, when they actually comes to prison,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to do fed time, and the prisons
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  Speaker 1: are going to be run the same exact way as
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  Speaker 1: federal prisons are being run. If you're gonna take our money,
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  Speaker 1: then this is the way it's gonna be. Or if
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to give us charge of your prison system,
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  Speaker 1: then you're no longer getting federal funds to run your
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  Speaker 1: state prison. There's multiple benefits by turning the state prisons
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  Speaker 1: into federal prisons, and I think the main thing is this.
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  Speaker 1: It ends discrimination in the justice system. Because if I
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  Speaker 1: would have committed my charges, if I would have killed
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  Speaker 1: the dude that I killed or excuse me, I didn't killing,
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  Speaker 1: I murdered, and there's a big difference. If I would
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  Speaker 1: have murdered the guy that I murdered in say Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: or New Hampshire or some other state like that, I
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  Speaker 1: would have been out of prison years and years and
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I would have done about twenty years, especially
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  Speaker 1: with you know, me growing up and everything I'd been on.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on the street and what seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of time right there. But because I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia, unless they change the laws, which may happen,
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  Speaker 1: may not, I don't know yet, that's a whole freaking
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  Speaker 1: mess right there. I can somehow receive a pardon from
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  Speaker 1: a governor, or from young Kin or the new governor
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  Speaker 1: next year. Well, I get back in court and I
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  Speaker 1: pay a pass load of money to the best lawyer
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia to get me out, in which I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: in the process of trying to do. But that's my
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  Speaker 1: main problem right here, is with the different discriminations between
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  Speaker 1: each state. Murder should be murder, rape should be rape,
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  Speaker 1: Selling drugs should be selling drugs. Stealing a car should
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  Speaker 1: be stealing a car. Whooping another man's ass should be
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  Speaker 1: whooping another man's ass. No matter what state you're in,
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  Speaker 1: you should not have fifty different sentences for the same
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  Speaker 1: in crime, which is why I would love to see
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  Speaker 1: every state you want federal funding, your prison system goes
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  Speaker 1: to the EFECT system. That way, it's fair that way.
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  Speaker 1: If you get locked up for murder, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: do twenty five years. You get locked up for selling drugs,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do ten years, depending on the amount,
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  Speaker 1: give or take. You know, crime should you have one
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  Speaker 1: minute minute. That's why every crime should have its own number.
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  Speaker 1: If you commit murder, no matter where you're at in
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  Speaker 1: the US, you're going to do twenty five to fifty
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  Speaker 1: years depending on your behavior, and you know the things
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  Speaker 1: you do in prison. It should be run this way.
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  Speaker 1: You want government efficiency, this starting the prison system and
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  Speaker 1: stop letting these wardens and these directors and all these
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  Speaker 1: other people steal hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers
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  Speaker 1: money every single year for these fake ass programs that
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  Speaker 1: they're running.
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