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Bryace Todd Season 1 Da Crew Podcast_Visionary Queen Angela_ THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT (2) · DA CREW Podcast

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What is going down for ones again? Hey, Hey, hey y'all,
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Hey y'all, Hey y'all, and welcome. Welcome to another episode of the
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Crew podcast. Of course, I am the visionary Queen Angel. I want
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to thank you guys for tuning in. Y'all. It's winding up. It's
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winding up, it's winding down. We are finishing up season one of the
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Crew podcasts, and I want to thank everyone that has been supporting us since
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February. Y'all were getting ready to close out a great year, and I
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over here at the Crew podcast. We're yet gonna be working, yet gonna
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be providing content those of us that are scheduled to do shows, We're yet
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gonna be working. Matter of fact, I will be live on Christmas Day
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bringing you guys some individuals from t d c J. Hey, of course
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that is continue and then I will be bringing you guys some interviews from those
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that are incarcerated within tdc J. I think I'm gonna have six individuals on
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on Monday, because it's a holiday. I want to give them an opportunity
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to share and let them know that they are being thought about during these holiday
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seasons. Also, if you're out there, if you are a male and
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you are a mentor, you are a coach, you got positive things going
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on, You got a positive mindset, and you're ready to encourage someone else,
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empower someone else, uplift someone else. It is your turn. It
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is your turn, y'all. It's been laid on my part to go ahead
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and allow these men to share. Inside of Kings. You are not forgotten.
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So y'all know, we brought the women's audition, so now we have
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the king's audition. So if you're out there, we want you guys,
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to go ahead and get involved. I tell you, y'all know it's not
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much to be a part of my anthologies. So you're not gonna break the
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bank. You get an opportunity to share and be a voice, be a
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light to someone that may be straggling, maybe in a dark place. So
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that's what we're doing. My guest for tonight has arrived. I see our
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newest host is in the Q, so thank you for joining in tonight,
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y'all. I'm excited about season two. We're gonna have some new hosts that
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we're gonna be presenting to you guys. Shanette Johnson is gonna be one of
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our hosts. She's gonna be doing bringing a lot of enlightenment and insight on
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wrongful convictions because she currently has a husband that's wrongfully convicted, wrongfully convicted out
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in Colorado, So she's gonna be sharing her journey. She's gonna be bringing
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individuals on to talk about their journey. And I'm excited because those that follow
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me and support me know that I too am an advocate. Of course,
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I have to give credit to Tin Chilla Jay over on the network that I
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am a part of, because she goes hard and just listening to her over
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the last three or four years, it's just touched my heart. But I'm
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gonna move the way, y'all. I hope just have given you guys an
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opportunity to share this out in your circle. Make sure that you tag someone
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that may need this information. That's gonna go forth on tonight again. For
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those that do not know who I am, I am effectually known as the
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Queen of Collaboration across these social media streets. But I am Angela Thomas.
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I am an author, motivational speaker, life coach, self publishing coach,
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you name it, I do it. I'm just out here just trying to
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be the change that I desire to see in this world. That's my motto
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and that's what I'm stiking to. But y'all, I'm gonna move on the
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way and allow my guests to come up and allow him to introduce itself.
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Hello, everyone, my name is Bryce. Welcome, Welcome. How are
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you sir? Hey, I'm doing well, Custantia. How about yourself?
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I'm sorry I had reading myself. I'm doing great. I can't complain,
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all right. For those that don't know who you are, if you would
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introduce yourself so those that are tuned in that may not know who you are
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will get an opportunity to find out a little bit about you. All right.
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Well, yeah, like I said, my name is Bryce Todd Jones.
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I am the owner of Strategic Parole Solutions, owner of Parole New Magazine,
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And what I do is, primarily I have a small national magazine that
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I have subscribers to around the new I sent it out bi monthly, and
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when it comes to Strategic what I do is I help men and women in
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the state of Texas come home on parole. At the moment, I have
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a really successful small business with that and it keeps me. It keeps me
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busy. As you know. I've also written a couple of books. This
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is my opportunity, right, so, Angela, this is my opportunity.
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I've written a couple of books. We've got the blueprint for Perfect Lemonade.
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It was some information that I gathered in from taking some songs from jay Z
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and Beyonce. But I do have a new issue of that coming out of
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new publication. And I've also written a book called A Message to Every Prisoner
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in America. And this message is not only to the men and women that's
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incarcerated, my brothers and sisters that I left behind several years ago. I
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was there, and I was in and out of jail, in and out
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of facilities. Called I itself in and out of prison. I did that
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repetitively every time I'd get out. Three months, four months later, I
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was either in jail, I myself, six seven, eight months later,
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I was on my way back to prison, not because of a new offense
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or whatnot, just because of parole violations and those type of things. But
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in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, I made up my
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mind that I was finished. I had saw too many people in our community
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whose families had been decimated by the criminal injustice system, and I knew that
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it was time for me to make that change. And I did that.
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I muted myself. I keep muting myself because I heard some feedback. So
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I had meeted myself. But wow, I know that you aren't author.
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You say you have two books. You said, the Blueprint for Perfect every
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Day. Yeah, the Blueprint for Perfect Women AD. Let me put that
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back up for you, Queen Angela, The Blueprint for Perfect Women Ade.
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It's the messages that I learned from Jay and Bay. Okay. I put
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this out in twenty eighteen. It did great inside the system because that's who
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I really wanted to get it out to. I wanted to be able to
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inspire, not necessarily motivate. Motivation is something that words off, you know,
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rather quickly, rather quickly, and of course, inspiration is something that
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comes from deep down inside. It's a spiritual thing. And so I wanted
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to be able to inspire men and women that much like May Angelou said,
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when you know better, you can do better, and I wanted to inspire
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the incarcerated men and women population that we have that we can do better.
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We can do better a lot of much like one of your mottos, be
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the change that you want to see, okay, And so with me,
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that's what it was. I wanted to be the change that I wanted to
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see. You know, we have a lot of things going on in the
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criminal injustice system, and it's gonna take some work. It's gonna take some
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work. But I always tell my guys, I always tell them that the
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change is going to happen from the inside. It's going to happen with the
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men and women. That's inconcerated. Once they started pushing things forward, the
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families will catch on. The families are actually waiting on the men and women
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inside to make that movement. That's what they're waiting on. And then you
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asked me about the other one. A message to every prisoner in America.
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Okay, and this is this MAGA, this particular book here, uh here
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in the state of Texas, it's banned in its prison system. I was
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able to probably get we I think we maybe got two hundred and fifteen copies
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on the inside. And then after the administration saw the information that I was
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releasing to the inconcerated population, they banned the magazine. Uh. There's been
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no other state prison agency, the federal prison, no one else has banned
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this particular book, but the state of Texas has. And of course you
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know why, you know why, you understand that's the reason everything because they
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full of corruption, They full of of of Yeah, three four decades for
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corruption. But you said something that that that really caught caught my attention,
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and Miss Schannette say, yes, we are. But what the thing is
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with me? I heard you say that it's gonna have to start within and
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it's gonna have to start with the guys on the inside. Now I believe
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it has started because there are a lot of them that are tired of what's
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going on. They're speaking up, they're speaking out. They are not only
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speaking up and speaking out because the State of Texas truly really don't believe in
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rehabilitation. These men and women have had to rehabilitate themselves. They have,
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They've had to come up with programming, They've had to come up with things
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to rehabilitate themselves and to try to to to better themselves and to identify who
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they are, because a lot of the issue is a lot of these men
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and women that end up in prison, they don't know who they are.
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Yeah, and they struggle with identity. They struggle with trying to fit in
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and and and and of course we know as as as brown people, that's
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a lot of our issue because they don't told us this. They don't told
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us that, and and and we don't know what to believe. We don't
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know what to accept because they done told us that we should trust and believe
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in the judicial system. But yet the judicial system put you in prison,
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and then they lock you out of prison too, well, well, they
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lock you in prison until you can't get out right. So they they're the
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reason why you there, because of all of this foolishness that they do.
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And then once they get you there, they they sing you through all these
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loops and chains and bounce and you have to do all kinds of flips and
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aerobics and then you you you it's like you just bouncing from wall to wall
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because these people and then they sitting back looking and laughing like it's again like
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it's a joke. But that's really what it is with them, because they
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fight for power and money and they could care less about us. It's a
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time they don't care if you innocent or not. And a lot of people
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that follow me. Over the last year, we've been interviewing a lot of
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people, and there's so many people that are incarcerated, and not just in
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the state of Texas, but all over the United States that are incarcerated wrongfully
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and overly incarcerated. I listened to a lot of these gentlemen in the state
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of Texas. I listened to their stories. I listen to them talk,
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I listened to them share about their stuff. If they were in another state,
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half of them wouldn't even be in prison. Half of them would have
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had time served, half of them would have been on probation or or they
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would have been paying fees and restitution. But the State of Texas, I
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don't get them, Like right now, I don't understand what you're going doing.
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And then to the people, and it's gonna take more than just the
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prisoners stepping up. See, they they are stepping up. But the family
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on the outside, they gotta step up. They got to do they got
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to do double what the woes behind bars are doing, because not only they
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gotta they gotta look out for the wares behind bars, but they got to
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look out for who they allowing to be in these offices. Because I'm looking
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at y'all Governor, y'all governor, that man been in office for a long
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time. I'm looking at some of these judges that's been in place for a
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long time, that's been putting these people in prison, and then they've been
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black bolling them and keeping them out and and and lord, I don't need
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want top pro system. I don't even I don't even want to talk about
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the parole system because I just did a paper on them and got an a
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on it. Just did a paper on it, did a presentation, and
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got an A on it. I just, man, I just finished my
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class. I feel is my class with a ninety seven to be exact,
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ninety seven to be exact, and in the whole class, I talked about
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that parole board and corruption in the state of Texas. So it's gotta be
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some facts to it. It's gotta be some truth to it, because you
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can't tell me. I can get an ad in a class on on on
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a paper and a presentation of flies. You can't tell me that because guess
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what I had to present. I had to present what my my my,
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my, my research, my my resources. I had to present everything,
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and we had to use proper quotations and and and and and citations. We
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couldn't just be throwing stuff out there. So it had to be some truth
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to all that that I reported on. So people need to wake up.
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People need to wake up. And if you're in the state of Jexas,
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y'all need to wake up. Y'all need to get some of these people out
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of office that's been in office. And I'm talking about your governor because he
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ain't making no sense right now. This man just passed the law. Well,
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he's in the he he, he's in the violence stayed all these people
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rights because now they finna be racially profiling these people. That's what they finished
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up. So we're gonna put that out there. They finil racially profiled all
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these immigrants. And then the prison already overflowing, you already overflowed on you,
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already understaff. You saw what happened this weekend out there cleanings. You
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already understaff. You you you you you, you just can't do it.
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You sending and then you sending eleven million dollars out of the state of Texas
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to Mississippi the House of Inmates, when you need to be looking at your
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parole and I and the statistics say that sixty sixty percent of people that come
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up for parole are denied. Yea, that they are letting out the ford,
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that that they are let the forty percent that they are letting out them
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come back. And they know that. And they know that because if you
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look at the pattern, you look at how they are or releasing these people,
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you look at who they releasing, Yeah, and how they keep setting
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down people. Yeah. Man, they got serious issues. Yeah, they
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got serious issues. I'm telling you, these people need to wake up.
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The citizens need to wake up. Yeah, and so Angela, what I've
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been doing this sister, is let me show you another thing here. This
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is a this is the magazine. It's called Parole News. I sent out
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Parole News bi monthly. I've been I started this publication three years ago and
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it's been growing, of course, and it's you know, it's nationwide.
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I think I'm in about thirty states now with this publication. And what I've
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been coaching the men and women on doing is uniting. See back in back
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in the late eighties, early nineties, when I was in the system,
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when it was really the system, when it was TDC, it was a
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different whole, different mechanism than it is now. But don't get me wrong,
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it was the same thing, but it was just a little bit different
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back then. What the men in, what the men did was if it
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was something that we didn't go for, we stood united. We put all
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of our differences aside because we understood that we had one coming enemy and that
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was the system itself. And so what we did was we would unite.
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And I tell my guys, now, look, when you unite, you
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have to do it in really a non violent way. You don't want to
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do anything that's going to have them calling in different people and then publicizing this
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and making it look like you guys are acting bad or acting up. And
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I have to work, you know, I have to worry my publications in
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a manner that you know that speech to my guys. Put it like that.
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And I I do different articles. I don't. I don't write everything.
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Of course, I have my own column in there. Each magazine,
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I at least put one article in there that I do, and I put
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articles from other writers about anything that has to do with parole from different states
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and whatnot like that. But you're exactly right when it comes to Texas.
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Uh, the thing about Texas is and the other states, but I'm gonna
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I'm gonna focus on Texas here. We have some other states that are that
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are just as bad, but not as worse. But the thing about Texas
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is is that when it comes to parole right now, you're you were right,
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we're doing parole is about thirty eight point five thirty eight point six percent
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right now. That is the expected grant rate of parole in the state of
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Texas. It's the field that I work in, and I just recently I
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was working for an attorney firm as well here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
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But I just recently got back to my own theme. But here in
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the state of Texas, they have specific programs. They have at least three
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programs right now that has an eighty five eighty five percent success rate, but
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they only allow very barenmnimal men and women to participate in these outstanding programs.
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And so my thing is I did an article and it was titled about this,
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but the article it also spoke about the Nation of Islam. Now I'm
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not a Nation of Islam member anything, but what I'm getting at is this
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the success rate of the Nation of Islam because they've taken a lot of men
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and totally a lot of men and women and have totally transformed their lives.
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It's very very few. The numbers are so skint for those who go back
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into the lifestyle that they once live. You have to wonder why they are
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so successful in what they do. And I'm like this, if an organization
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like that, the Nation of Islam, and we've got programs that have an
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eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven percent success rate, Why are we
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not implementing them programs all around for everyone. You know, let's not pick
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and choose. If reabilitation and public safety is the real key, is the
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real mission statement for these systems, these criminal injustice systems, then why not
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give everybody the chance at such a program that has such a high success rate.
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And if you're not doing that, then you're not trying to do any
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rehabilitation. And like you say, what you're doing is you've got this merry
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go round and you've got this revolve door. And you know it is And
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I tell people all the time that the system is not broken. The system
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is set up and designed exactly how they want it to function. We are
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the ones that's gonna have to throw a ranch in this chain. We're gonna
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have to break the spokes of this this chain that they got, this this
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hamster wiel that they got. We're the ones that's going to have to do
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it. And that's what I really coach my guys on. I coach my
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guys on on uniting, putting all of the differences aside, because they're broken
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off into different sex, different gangs, different this different that, racial game
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wise everything. And I say at some point in time, you have to
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realize that where you are right now mentally, that's exactly where they want you,
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because they understand that as long as you separate in yourselves, you'll never
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ever unite, even with this male thing that they have going on, this
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digital mail and where guys and men and women can't write each other in the
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sea. The biggest lawsuit ever against the State of Texas was the Ruiz David
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Ruiz versus Stelle lawsuit. It was in the late seventies early eighties. It
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totally transformed TDC. It was taken over by the federal systems. Wim Wayne
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Justice was the judge. His name was Wim Wayne Justice. He was the
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judge over that particular federal suit. But since that time, the guys have
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lost all of the provisions that was given by Wim Wayne Justice. They've taken
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away, they've trained, they've changed laws. And when they changed those laws,
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what they were doing was implementing a little bit of systems here and there
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to whereas they could take back some of those things, but do it under
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a different code, a different statute, the different law. I think I
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spoke to you once before and I told you now they've got something that's called
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discretionary mandatory supervision. Well, we both know that discretionary. Man, they
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clash with each other. Anything that's mandatory means no discretion, That's what it
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means. And at first that law was called mandatory supervision. It was when
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the guy's good time, their calendar time, and their work time equal one
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percent of their sinus, then they will automatically be released to supervision. Okay,
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but now they call it discretionary mandatory supervision. They pass that law,
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and I don't know how they was able to do that. You just can't
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have discretion in anything that's mandatory. And one of the things that I tell
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people is that anytime they pass a law and it affects one group of people,
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you best believe that at some point it's going to affect you, because
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that's how they dictate what they can do next. They see how the public
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reacts to this little thing that we do. If the public reacts in a
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way where they accept it, they're going to continue to implement a little bit
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of laws, and eventually it's going to affect everyone in the public system.
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And that's exactly you know. I don't mean this in a derogatory manner.
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But when they have passed anti death penalty effect, whether when they passed the
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epad, when they passed that law, it was supposed to be just against
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terrorists, and it was supposed to be for man and women who were on
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death road, but who were I mean, were proven guilty beyond the shadow
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of doubt and had what we would call horrendous offenses. It was so that
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they couldn't just continue to appeal, appeal, appeal just to stay alive,
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you know, after twenty or thirty or forty years, just to stay alive.
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But what they did was they put in some clauses, and now an
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innocent person can fil a rid of habeas corpus, that first rid of habeas
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corpus that an innocent person fils. If he don't get the relief sought from
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that, he's barred from filing another ofhavior's corpus. Because that's what that law
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did. It gave you one shot, one shot from there you have to
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if you don't have any new information or new evidence of what not, you're
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barred from fouling. And like I say, it wasn't supposed to be that
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way. It was supposed to be against terrorists. And people that had foul
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ten fifteen twenty appeals trying to get off of death throw. That's what it
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was for. But you can bet believe that they sit back in rooms and
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they figured out what they was gonna do before they did it, to figure
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out how they was gonna make money off of it. Because you can bet
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that somebody making money off of it. Every bid that's filled, they making
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money out of it. I'm telling you, that's why they're not letting nobody
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go home. That's why Texas is overflowing. That's why California is overflowing.
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That's why a lot of these six states, Alabamama, Georgia, South Carolina,
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that's why all of them are overflowing. The prisons are overflowing. They're
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not they None of those states believe in rehabilitation. None of them believe in
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high At Alabama right now have a forty five million dollars a lossuit I think
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against them where they have used these inmates, they've sent these inmates out to
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work real jobs at Burger King, McDonald's in different places where they've worked and
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they've gotten paid two dollars to perform weeks work for work or two dollars for
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a day work for work or however, they made millions of dollars off of
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them, and now they have a class action lawsuit against them because of what
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they've done. And that's a lot of states that are doing the same thing.
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They packing them up, putting them on these buses, taking them to
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these plants and allowing them to work besides regular people, and these regular people
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getting paid and somebody making that money because they clocking in for nothing. They
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ain't signing out for them time sheets for nothing, they ain't doing it for
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nothing. Somebody getting paid. And where's the money going? Yeah? Yeah,
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and Angela, where's the money going? These prisons are run down.
31:07
We I hear every single day of how they understaff. You. You tell
31:15
me how you can how you can effectively run a prison with twelve with twelve
31:22
guards and you got almost three thousand inmates. How can you effectively run a
31:29
prison with twelve guards? You can't. But That's what I'm hearing over and
31:33
over about these different these different things. And Ron Reynolds, carl O's Sherman,
31:40
Sheila Jackson, Lee, Monica Fidela Cruz, Jeff Leech, and and
31:45
all these other representatives that sitting on their butt and doing nothing about it,
31:51
nothing about because they ain't getting on their governor, because their governor can issue
31:56
an executive order and all el inmates can be released, Yeah, say eligible,
32:05
they can be released. If you got people in there. Not to
32:08
mention all these folks they got in there that that's wrongfully incarcerated, we ain't
32:13
eve gonna talk about them, but the people that's been in there. I
32:16
look at this and I'm just putting the pattern together and just kind of trying
32:22
to think, because I'm in my forties, I'm I'm almost fitty oh,
32:28
and to think that a lot of these people have been incarcerated twenty thirty and
32:35
forty years, A lot of them, every last one of them that come
32:37
on my show, every last one of them have been incarcerated at least at
32:42
least twenty years. Now you tell me, and then you hear the ages,
32:45
all of them about my age, and you've been incarcerated that long,
32:51
and you you're not fein the you're not feinn the feeling again. But these
32:55
people don't believe that because they don't believe, and they don't they don't believe
33:02
in rehabilitation, so they of course they don't know if these people are gonna
33:08
offend again or not. They don't care, They don't care, and and
33:14
and I'm just it just it just make me. It just bothers me,
33:19
because you you talk about people that's been there twenty thirty forty years. So
33:24
these people got to be in they forties, they late forties, they fifties,
33:30
they sixties, someone probably in their seventies. What if they gonna do
33:32
when they come back out on these streets exactly what who? And and and
33:37
in half of them been locked up to where these people at These people just
33:44
want to come out and and live what little bit of life they have left.
33:49
They do just't want to enjoy because they've taken so much away from them.
33:54
Yeah, yeah, they've taken so much away. I listened to these
33:59
juveniles, you talking about fifteen, sixteen, seven year old, seventeen year
34:04
old that they they take straight from from from off the street and put them
34:09
in in these grown up prisons and they won't even give them a chance.
34:15
And then you're given these babies more time than you've given these adult criminals that's
34:21
committing the crimes, and half of them on with somebody when they commit a
34:28
crime and the ain't did nothing just in the car, yeah, or didn't
34:32
even know what was going on, didn't know. But then now they got
34:36
they got a capital life sentence. Yeah. And then they got more more
34:39
more time than the person that did it. And then now their lives ruined
34:45
and they can't get no relief. Want them to do forty years before them.
34:52
Baby's gonna be sixty years old before they come out. And then and
34:57
now the state don't have the state gond have to take cam again because guess
35:01
what, you ain't equipped them. They don't got no trade, you ain't.
35:06
You ain't gave them nothing that they can fall back on. Yeah,
35:09
so now now what Yeah, and and and look y'all saying y'all doing what's
35:15
best for the citizens. Okay, yeah, yeah, they're not. And
35:22
you know, and one of the sad things about the programming and the educational
35:25
system that they have going on there, say, for instance, Angela,
35:30
if you learn a new trade when you get in the system, okay,
35:32
this is something that's to brand new to you. You learn how to do
35:36
it, how to go about it, and you're proficient in it, okay,
35:39
and when you finished up, you finished up, you know, you're
35:44
not They're not finna give you a job doing any of that in the system
35:46
because most times they don't have jobs like that for you, and they've got
35:51
many more men and women that they want to put in this program. But
35:53
the thing is is that after you finish these programs in this education or this
35:59
trade, you go up for paroles next time, you're going to get denied.
36:05
And then that next year goes around, you're going to get denied.
36:08
So what I'm saying is when you teach these men and women a particular new
36:13
skill or a new trade, and you continually deny them and they never get
36:19
a chance to use this new skill a new trade, then a lot of
36:25
it they forget, you know, they just simply forget. If you want
36:30
to equip them with new skills, new trades, then at least give them
36:36
the opportunity to use it. And so it just doesn't work sometimes. Excuse
36:43
me, I am a little bit sick. Okay, I had to get
36:50
that cough drop. But what I do want to say is is that on
36:57
a sumber note, one of the guys that I was able to help get
37:02
home about four months five months ago, and he kept in touch with me.
37:12
He passed away last night, and we were actually working together. I
37:20
was trying to he had become basically blind while he was in prison. Robert
37:27
was sixty three, sixty four years old, diabetic, been in there,
37:31
you know, several years. I was able to help him make parole,
37:36
excuse me, Angela. I was able to help him make parole and get
37:40
him home, and we had some problems with his address because he owned his
37:45
house and he you know, really wasn't anyone there. So we had to
37:50
work to get him into an house with someone and then get him into his
37:55
own house. Transfer his parole planning so he could get into his own house.
38:00
But he passed away last night. He had a stroke, heart attack
38:05
stroke. But we were actually working on while he was in the county jail
38:09
getting ready to go to TDCJ. They gave him the wrong They gave him
38:15
a lethal dose of the wrong insolent. And it wasn't the nurses that was
38:23
passing out the insolent, it was the guards. And after we tried to
38:34
get him an attorney, the judge, the federal judge, threw his case
38:39
out and he was getting ready to send me some paperwork on Sunday, and
38:45
I never heard from him. And then on Monday, his daughter that was
38:51
letting us know that he had a heart attack and a stroke on I'm gonna
38:58
say Sunday night, and he passed away this morning. And he's an ext
39:05
he's a veteran. That's what really gets me is is that we have government
39:13
systems that in place, this criminal injustice system don't even care about the vets.
39:19
A lot of the veterance has put they put their lives on the line,
39:22
you know, for for whatever it was that our government wanted them to
39:27
go do. You know, whatever it was they sold on them to go
39:30
and do, and for forced to to just basically deny them, you know.
39:37
I mean, they don't do our vets very well on the inside.
39:40
And that's one of the things that bothers me quite a bit. These people
39:46
have, you know, did a lot of things for society. They've went
39:51
overseas. I've got one guy that I work with now that I got out.
39:57
That's one of the things that I do, Angela, is my guys
40:00
that if they come to this area, parole to this area once they get
40:04
out, I do work with them. I'm affiliated with organization called Unlocking Doors
40:10
it's the largest re entry organization in the state. And I work with them,
40:16
and I you know, we're able to get them, you know,
40:20
possible job placement. We're able to get them brand new clothing so that they
40:23
can go and look decent if they got an interview or they want to go
40:28
do job interviews. We give them real you know, we're able to get
40:31
them real closed and we get them hooked up with so many things, so
40:37
many different resources. And you know, I just wanted to bring that up
40:44
because I kind of feel that, you know, if our criminal injustice system
40:49
was to do anything, could you at least show us that you want to
40:52
be better by taking cur of I vets Angela as when when Why I was
41:00
on town Away was on the program, one of the things he mentioned was
41:06
the thirteenth Amendment, of which the exception clause of the thirteenth Amendment. What
41:12
the exception clause actually teaches us if you really just look at it, you
41:15
don't even have to do research, just look at it. What the thirteenth
41:21
Amendment actually teaches us is this slavery was never abolished. It was just given
41:27
a new name. And that name that they gave it, it's justice.
41:30
They took it out of private hands and they put it into public hands,
41:36
the government system. It's what they did. They just took it. You
41:38
know, I can't own a slave, You can't own a slave. He
41:40
or she can't own a slave, but we can. And that's what they
41:45
did. And then of course you remember the convict Leason after they acted to
41:50
Jim Crow laws after the thirteenth Amendment was passed, and they said, well,
41:54
unless of course you've been duly convicted, you know. And so what
42:00
I'm getting that is they pulled a fast one on everybody. Other nations know.
42:07
We're the ones that don't know. The other nations know what's going on
42:12
here. We're the ones that can't seem to come to terms with the truth.
42:17
Other nations know that this is a great deception. They fully understand and
42:22
they know without a doubt. Slavery was never abolished. It was never abolished
42:28
ever. It was just made government agency. It was just put into the
42:32
hands of the government just because you say I can't own a slave, or
42:37
he can't own a slave, or she can't own a slave, but we
42:39
can lock them up. And we're going to make sure that everybody who was
42:43
making money can still make money. It's the same thing. Nothing changes,
42:49
nothing changes. You know, all of the corporations that make money from incarcerated
42:53
individuals. People would never believe that, victorious secret. People would believe that
43:00
a lot of the patties from different billion dollar Hamburger corporations, Burger Kings,
43:07
not Burger Kings, but McDonald's and whatnot. People would never believe that comes
43:12
from slave labor. It comes from men and women that are making zero cents
43:15
an hour to thirteen fifteen seventeen cents an hour. They would never believe that
43:21
all of those boxes of meat that they ship there for those companies are coming
43:24
from men and women that are incarcerated. They would never believe it, but
43:28
they do so many. There are brooms, there are mops, There are
43:30
mop buckets, There are garbage disposals, There are beds, there are tables.
43:37
Texas is known for its furniture factory, and other state systems are known
43:43
for their furniture factories. They're called furniture factories, we know, y'all.
43:49
And definitely mattresses is one of the things that we know about it. Yes,
43:52
yes, y'all forgive me, but yeah, that's so right. And
44:00
and it's just a lot of a lot of companies. A lot of companies
44:07
Starbucks, there are so many companies that you will not believe that were Walmart,
44:15
a lot of them that get their stuff made, produced whatever through the
44:23
prison system. It used to be a million dollar industry. Now it's a
44:31
multi trillion dollar industry. And it's what's the man price is right? Man,
44:40
he had his hands was in a lot of the prison system exactly.
44:46
But yeah, I mean that's that that is a known fact. But until
44:52
we as people wake up and say enough is enough and we're not gonna keep
44:59
a loudness and we're gonna take our communities back and we're gonna do what they
45:04
were doing back in the day, because that was there were a time when
45:08
prisons were not overflowing with us. That there were a time when we were
45:15
taking care of our communities. Mh. But see when they brought in all
45:21
these drugs. See that's what they did. They brought the drugs in.
45:23
They brought in all this stuff to see how they can further further keep us
45:30
apart and further further separate us, and how they can further bring us down.
45:35
Because they always got to have something to keep us in competition. They
45:37
always got to have something that's gonna keep us at each other and and wanted
45:45
to keep up with the Joneses. That's that's that's what they do, and
45:49
that's what they do. They're gonna always it's always something. But yeah,
45:58
yeah, Texas has they economy. They have one of the highest. They
46:06
say, all of big business fortune five hundred companies love Texas. I guess
46:15
they would because guess what, they can come down there and make the biggest
46:21
and biggest of dollars off of inmates and and not have to pay salaries.
46:28
So why wouldn't I? I would come set up a factory right there,
46:31
and that's what they do, and then all the stuff they do. They
46:37
but we as citizens we sit blindly and we keep voting the same people in
46:44
the office. I've been looking at these people that's in office, how long,
46:49
how long they've been in these positions? You look at these judges,
46:52
man, these people get in these positions and they don't leave until they die.
46:58
Why as we letting people until they die? Why are we letting people
47:04
stay in a position and they're not doing what they're supposed to do? Yeah,
47:08
but I ain't I ain't from some of them. Some of them sold,
47:15
some of some of them sold. You already know they can't think straight.
47:19
They can't think straight. And just like that man, that man up
47:22
there in that and that what's the name? You can stand up and and
47:28
and and and be talking and forget what you're talking about. Come on out.
47:32
You don't need to be in office. And that's what a lot of
47:35
them, a lot of them need to be out of office. They need
47:37
a whole new Texas need a whole new, younger breed that they need some
47:45
thinkers, some some some progressive thinkers, some some people that is about their
47:51
business, and and they need people that's not gonna be not gonna be so
47:58
partial to this side and partial to that side, but they're gonna stand on
48:00
truth and they're gonna stand on facts. That's what they need because they've been
48:06
full of corruption for three four decades. Yeah, I mean all that need
48:09
to be cleared up, and some of these people need to be set free.
48:15
So I definitely I want to thank you for stopping by and sharing with
48:21
us on tonight before we leave, if you would share with those that are
48:27
tuned in and those that will hear the replay how they can reach out to
48:30
you and support the things that you're doing well. You can reach out to
48:36
me, of course on Facebook under Bryce Todd. I also have a page
48:40
Strategic Parole Solutions. I also have my Facebook page Parole News Magazine. Of
48:47
course, you can always reach out to me by phone eight one seven four
48:53
nine two five five three nine email MBT Jones with a Z twenty at gmail
49:01
dot com. You can always go to the websites let me move out the
49:06
way. You can see that website there www. Parolnews dot com. You
49:12
can order the book from there. You can go to the Facebook page Blueprint
49:15
for Perfect Lemonade. You can order the book from there as well. And
49:21
I just asked that everyone just, you know, just come over and visit.
49:25
You're like some of the content. I'm going to get more active,
49:30
queen, just as soon as i can get past this these holidays. I
49:35
really do. I know that we have something that we have to do together.
49:39
I believe Cornell is a little upset with me. He just have to
49:43
forgive me. I'm talking about Mster Drummer. He'll just have to forgive me
49:45
for the moment. But I've kind of put a lot on my plate,
49:50
and I'm taking some things off now. But other than that, you know,
49:57
I do for I'm going to move forward this year. I'm going to
50:00
really crank up things with the Parole News magazine. I'm going to crank up
50:05
things when it comes to strategic paroles, and I'm going to be working side
50:10
by side with town Away as much as possible. I'm just needing to get
50:15
past these this next week. And I'm not saying twenty twenty four is the
50:17
big star for anything newer, but I need to get past these holidays.
50:22
You know, I am a father, grandfather, and husband, and so
50:29
I just need to get past these holidays and I'm gonna get some things really
50:34
moving fast. Well, I definitely want to thank you for stopping by.
50:43
I definitely holidays are the holidays, yeah, but y'all be safe, enjoy
50:51
your holidays. And definitely, y'all if y'all would remember those that are incarcerated,
50:58
because during the holidays it can be really rough for them. A lot
51:01
of them could feel hopeless, they can feel underappreciated, under love and all
51:07
of that. I tell you, we just dropped a book for the queens
51:12
called The Forgotten Queens and I've been sharing it with some of the ladies that's
51:15
locked up. I actually sent out some copies, but those that are part
51:21
of it, they have been purchasing their copies and they've been reading it and
51:27
been sharing how inspirational it is. I'm just glad to be able to be
51:31
a light to somebody during this holiday day season. So if y'all would please
51:37
just remember someone that is incarcerated, if you've got to write them a letter,
51:42
if you can eat, message them, he message them, but just
51:45
remember them. Send, send up some prayers, send some good lives.
51:52
But again, I wish you are happy, safe holiday season, and thank
51:58
you for stopping by sharing with us. All of the listeners. I want
52:01
to thank you guys for tuning in on tonight, y'all. I have three
52:07
more shows and I will be done. I tell you, this season has
52:10
truly been a blessing to many. I thank God for the six amazing hosts
52:17
that have truly roaded out with me, y'all. We started off with I
52:22
think we had about twelve in the beginning, but we have six rided eyes
52:27
that have truly rolled it out and stick it out, and they truly believe
52:32
in what they're doing and sharing their perspectives say, in order for change to
52:37
come, you have to be the change that you desire in this world.
52:39
So we have decided to be the change that we want to see. So
52:44
y'all, we'll be back tomorrow night. Black Diamond will be on tomorrow night,
52:49
so make sure that you tune in far Basic Black after dark. Y'all,
52:57
have a good night. The Queen loves you. And guess what,
53:00
there's not one single thing you can do it byde it. Y'all, have
53:01
a great night.