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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _151_HOSTS SHANETTE JOHNSON & QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 2: But welcome, welcome, welcome. I want to welcome you guys
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Speaker 2: to another episode of the Free Texas Campaign as we
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Speaker 2: present voices from behind the walls of TDCJ. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. If you would please share this
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Speaker 2: out in your circle of influence, you never know what
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Speaker 2: the next person may need or what nugget they may
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Speaker 2: be able to receive. On today, we are attempting to
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Speaker 2: expose corruption that has been running rapid within the State
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Speaker 2: of Texas over the last three to four decades, within
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Speaker 2: the judicial system and within the TDCJ. So on today
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Speaker 2: we have Cody with us, gonna put up his picture
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Speaker 2: so you guys will get opportunity to put a face
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Speaker 2: with the person that you are here. So, Cody, if
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Speaker 2: you would please, if you would begin to induce douce
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Speaker 2: yourself as out.
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Speaker 3: Uh, I've been down here for about almost twelve years.
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Speaker 3: I gotta uhren change your murder as an adult of
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Speaker 3: an automobile action D I think I ran a red light,
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Speaker 3: I hit another car, and I ended up the girl
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Speaker 3: driving another car. But uh, they ended up already. They
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Speaker 3: gave me a dan handed you a murder charge, and
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Speaker 3: I and here I have.
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Speaker 2: Wow wow. So they gave you Okay, so you say
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Speaker 2: you had two but prior so they gave you an
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Speaker 2: in hand sentence.
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Speaker 3: Yes they did. They said I did this how they
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Speaker 3: charged me basically, and cord and all the papers and
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Speaker 3: all that that made it out like, uh like I
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Speaker 3: planned it out and do exactly what I was doing
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Speaker 3: and meant to do it. I mean, you know I
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Speaker 3: messed up.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't say I wasn't a faultive of that, but
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Speaker 3: I didn't murder nobody Like I wasn't drunk. I wasn't
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Speaker 3: paying attention to what I was doing.
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Speaker 2: But okay, evidently if if you said you were drunk,
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Speaker 2: so apparently you had an issue with alcohol. So if okay,
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Speaker 2: So instead of them throwing the book at you and
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Speaker 2: taking your life away like that, did they offer any
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Speaker 2: type of program, any type of of something that you
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Speaker 2: could have went to to work on your issue, because
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Speaker 2: that is his sickness. That is an issue.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely gone. They see, I caught this cage like the Nimber.
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Speaker 3: The twenty nine eleven twelve was the election tackle for
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Speaker 3: the journey. So she straight upset in the paper that
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Speaker 3: I was her pact case. She was gonna make an
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Speaker 3: example out of me, and she did that, so it
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Speaker 3: got blow. I guess you know what I said. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I caused the dudger with another person that I can't
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Speaker 3: I can't argue that, but it got made it so
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Speaker 3: much more than what it should have been as far
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Speaker 3: as I at the murder charge and all that for
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Speaker 3: a night. But and it wasn't nothing but politics. It's all.
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Speaker 3: It was about that part of me. They didn't offer
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Speaker 3: me nothing. It was they didn't offer me or peep
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Speaker 3: bargain nothing. It was the first time that when the
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Speaker 3: corps we're going to dry on period.
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Speaker 2: So wow, So what has this journey been within TDCJ.
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Speaker 2: So how old were you again when you when you
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Speaker 2: were incarcerated within TDCJ.
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Speaker 3: I when I came to TDC I just turned twenty two.
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Speaker 3: I caught this case like right before I turned twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Wow, yet still a baby.
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Speaker 3: It ain't uh uh, it ain't been fun. I mean,
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Speaker 3: like I said, well, I I wasn't y. I grew
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Speaker 3: up in here, but I just spend you know mind
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Speaker 3: I guess formative years and here dealing with you know,
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Speaker 3: people that I wouldn't uh, you know, I don't think
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Speaker 3: you could ever be in charge of another human being,
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Speaker 3: you know, after the some of the folks work here.
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Speaker 3: I mean they ain't all like definitely, they don't treat
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Speaker 3: you like the person in I mean I'm a date,
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Speaker 3: but uh that a lot of them did. Is their
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Speaker 3: jobs are punish you, know you grade you need you,
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Speaker 3: not you. I mean gets ridiculous at times.
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Speaker 2: Well it's not their job to punish you, because the
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Speaker 2: only the only person that really can punish you is
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Speaker 2: the one that created true these judges can give you
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Speaker 2: sentences to try to try to put limitations on you,
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Speaker 2: but they can't truly punish you. And for someone to
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Speaker 2: think that that authority. Their job is to make sure
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Speaker 2: that you are kept safe and that they're safe. That
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Speaker 2: that's their job, and that's their only job. And they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to make sure that your human rights are protected.
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Speaker 2: They're not there to dehumanize you. And that's what I'm
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Speaker 2: hearing that that is a pattern that I'm here within TDCJ,
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Speaker 2: not just in the male unit, but also in the
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Speaker 2: women's unit. The women's unit is worse than the male's unit.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing how the guards are just abusing the women,
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Speaker 2: like with fists, fighting them and all kind of stuff,
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Speaker 2: mason them and in various things, and they think that
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Speaker 2: this is okay. Like I've had individuals reach out to
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Speaker 2: me and ask if we could just pop up and
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Speaker 2: record what's going on within the facilities. I wish I could,
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Speaker 2: because a lot of them would probably be closed. A
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Speaker 2: lot of them would probably be closed.
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Speaker 3: Going and looking like the living area, the kitchen, a
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Speaker 3: cook and in their ventilation works, the heater it don't
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Speaker 3: work every even when they clean it. When there's the builders,
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Speaker 3: they don't clean it. It really is And if any
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Speaker 3: kind of UH Health inspector actually went in there, they
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Speaker 3: wasn't already paid by the day they closed this place
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Speaker 3: down down heart.
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Speaker 2: And that's what needs to happens. Like it's too many
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Speaker 2: times like people are talking about one of the units,
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Speaker 2: talk about mold, the sewage, when its smell, and you know,
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Speaker 2: just all kinds of stuff like it's she it's not habitable.
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Speaker 2: It should be closed and nobody should be living like
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Speaker 2: that when you can spend eleven million dollars on another state,
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Speaker 2: you can send eleven million dollars of Texas money to
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Speaker 2: another state to house inmates, when you should be letting
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Speaker 2: these inmates. Go like, I don't get it. You You
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Speaker 2: got inmates that's been locked up for twenty thirty forty
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Speaker 2: years that need to be going home, and you are
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Speaker 2: ruining people lives like these people sitting at home making memories,
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Speaker 2: creating memories, creating legacy, creating these things, and they're ruining
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Speaker 2: your lives. And it's not just a handful of y'all.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about thousands of y'all that they are overly
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Speaker 2: and wrongfully incarcerating. And then we got got these elected
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Speaker 2: officials that sit around and do absolutely nothing. They do
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Speaker 2: absolute nothing.
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Speaker 3: As question, talk to anybody that can help it all, man,
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Speaker 3: you can't get time anybody.
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Speaker 2: Like I know, they may not have classified you as
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Speaker 2: a juvenal. But even with the law that's being passed
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Speaker 2: in different states about the frontal load, with them understanding
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Speaker 2: that until you reach twenty five that you're still growing mentally,
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Speaker 2: that your brain is still developing. It's been proven in
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Speaker 2: different states and they've passed these laws. But Texas just
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Speaker 2: stuck on money. It's a money thing with them. And
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Speaker 2: I keep telling people, if they trace the money, they
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Speaker 2: will figure out why a lot of this stuff is happening.
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Speaker 2: They need to get that governor up out of office.
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Speaker 2: He been in office too long. He been in office
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Speaker 2: too long. You talk about three to four decades, that's
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Speaker 2: thirty forty years. And then you got people that have
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Speaker 2: been locked up thirty and forty years. And these people
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Speaker 2: literally want these people to die, and they took attempts
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Speaker 2: on these people lives. And the judges. Now the judges
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Speaker 2: are getting involved. The judges are going as far as
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Speaker 2: holding documents. They date. Man, everybody keep doing these eleven
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Speaker 2: O sevens. I don't know why they're wasting their time
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Speaker 2: doing eleven no sevens because they even these people ain't
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Speaker 2: even looking at them. They're not even reading them. They
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Speaker 2: just denying them and just sending them back and it's okay,
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Speaker 2: And ain't nobody doing nothing about it. Ain't nobody doing
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Speaker 2: nothing about it. That's why these selected officials and all
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Speaker 2: these people that's in charge, they need to get these
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Speaker 2: people up out of there and these people that's fighting
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Speaker 2: for change. These are the people that need to be
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Speaker 2: getting in office. These are the people that need to
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Speaker 2: be really running for office by all these people that
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Speaker 2: say that they've been being on the ground for the
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Speaker 2: last ten, fifteen, twenty years, trying to fight for these
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Speaker 2: juvenile bills, trying to fight for the second look, trying
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Speaker 2: to fight for the law party, trying to fight for
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Speaker 2: these different bills to be passed. That the that the
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Speaker 2: governor keep vetoing, that that they keep talking about, the
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Speaker 2: word that ain't right, crazy stuff. Man, Well, they definitely
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Speaker 2: need to do something about it. And I think the
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Speaker 2: more of y'all that come on here, share y'all story,
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Speaker 2: get the families involved. If it just takes one family
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Speaker 2: member from everybody that's that's been on this show, if
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Speaker 2: just one family member would get involved, if we would
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Speaker 2: just go to these different city halls, to the state Capitol, like,
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Speaker 2: we got to get out here and we got to
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Speaker 2: be of course, we got to do like they did
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Speaker 2: back in the day. We got to get back on
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Speaker 2: these steps. We got to get back in front of
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Speaker 2: these people. And it's got to take the families with
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Speaker 2: these signs, what they loved, ones picture on it, standing
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Speaker 2: in front of these people, letting these people see who
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Speaker 2: these people are. So these people can't sleep at night
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Speaker 2: when they start seeing y'all faces at night and they dreams,
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Speaker 2: then they'll start doing something about it. They'll start doing
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Speaker 2: something about it. And if they don't want to do
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Speaker 2: nothing about it, then they need to get out of
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Speaker 2: office and put and a lot of people that's gonna
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Speaker 2: do something about it. Take the rein because that's what
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Speaker 2: it's gonna take. That's what it's gonna take. But it's
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Speaker 2: been dropped in my lap, and I tell you I'm
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Speaker 2: own it. I just can't back down like they whoever
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Speaker 2: dropped it in my lap. I thank God for the
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Speaker 2: chance and to be able to be a difference, because
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Speaker 2: it's sad. It hurt my heart to see all these
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Speaker 2: people go through this and then to hear these stories
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Speaker 2: of people that you know, doing four years and end
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Speaker 2: up with fifty years. Like I don't get that. Like
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Speaker 2: how you go to serve four years and end up
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Speaker 2: with a fifty year sentence? Like I don't get that.
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Speaker 2: I just don't get that. And how can you be
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Speaker 2: sitting in a car. You don't know what these people
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Speaker 2: going to do? You don't know what you just sitting
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Speaker 2: in the car, You're thinking, you waiting on somebody to
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Speaker 2: come out the store. You don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: But you get more time than the person that commit
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Speaker 2: the crime. How's that?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 2: I don't get it. And then you younger than the
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Speaker 2: person that commit the crime. How can you think the
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Speaker 2: child have more more mental sense than the grown up?
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Speaker 2: I don't get it. And you get a child more
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Speaker 2: time than you get a grown up and the grown
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Speaker 2: up back out here living their life and need the
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Speaker 2: child still in prison. I don't get it. I don't
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Speaker 2: get it. I don't get it. But I'm looking at
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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the loss in Texas and they
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Speaker 2: need to be changed, and these families need to speak
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Speaker 2: up and speak out. So, like I said, I have
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Speaker 2: a platform. This is a platform that I use. I
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Speaker 2: use my magazine, I use these podcasts, I use every
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Speaker 2: opportunity that I can and to utilize my voice to
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Speaker 2: speak out against injustice, not just in the state of Texas,
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Speaker 2: but around the US, because it's not just happened in Texas,
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Speaker 2: It's happening everywhere. It's happening everywhere. But I want you
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Speaker 2: if somebody is listening and there's somebody out there today
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Speaker 2: that can assist you, how can they assist you on
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Speaker 2: your case?
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Speaker 3: Woll I mean I've already done about the hills it
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Speaker 3: h m hm m h h already trying to find
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Speaker 3: a way you get back getting that. I know they're
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Speaker 3: that getting there, but you know all that I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say, we're gonna keep sharing it. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: keep putting it out there. We're gonna keep talking about it.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna keep, you know, putting it in front of people,
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Speaker 2: putting it in front of the legislation, putting it in
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Speaker 2: front of folks, keep letting people hear about it. This
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Speaker 2: recording here will be shared across different platforms like i heeart, Google,
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Speaker 2: okayst Spotify, YouTube, U forty two, linked Tree, various places,
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Speaker 2: so people will be able to hear about it. They'll
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Speaker 2: be able to, you know, share it out and bring
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Speaker 2: some awareness of the things that's happening within t d
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Speaker 2: c J and hopefully how we can address some of
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Speaker 2: those things. But I really think re looking at the
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Speaker 2: parole process and the parole board because I don't think that,
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Speaker 2: you know, if they're giving people these life senses that
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Speaker 2: people need to do thirty forty years, they they should
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Speaker 2: be able to give be given prole and then if
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Speaker 2: they violate their parole, then let them go back and
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Speaker 2: do their time, but at least give them a chance
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Speaker 2: or give them a chance.
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Speaker 3: I agree with what you said about the judge. It's like,
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Speaker 3: you know, why, why why do you give the power
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Speaker 3: where they give out so much time on a wheel.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Like they really need to look at the crime and
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Speaker 2: look at the people. They have to really do look
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Speaker 2: at the situation and and and look at people's background
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Speaker 2: and and and and try. Like I said, they have
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Speaker 2: to understand that there's rehabilitation, regardless of how they personally feel,
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Speaker 2: that people can be rehabilitated. Because let me tell you something,
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Speaker 2: you're talking to someone that have been through rehability. I'm
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Speaker 2: on both ends of it. I'm a victim of domestic violence.
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Speaker 2: I was shot point blank range with a solid our shotgun.
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Speaker 2: People asked me, how do I do the work that
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Speaker 2: I do if I've been a victim? But I learned
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Speaker 2: that I'm not a victim. You know, something happened, something
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Speaker 2: was wrong with my husband, the reason why he did
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Speaker 2: what he did. I could have been mad at him.
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Speaker 2: I could have carried around a grudge. I couldn't did
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Speaker 2: a lie, but I realized that he needed help. He
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Speaker 2: had issues, he had problems, and if I had helped
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Speaker 2: him deal with those problems, he may not have did
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Speaker 2: with what he did. But again, he was using drugs,
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Speaker 2: he was under the influence. He did not know what
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Speaker 2: he was doing. So I could not hold that against him.
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Speaker 2: I had to forgive him and myself, and then I
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Speaker 2: was able to move on. I was able to be
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Speaker 2: able to do the things that I do. I was
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Speaker 2: able to look past what I've been through and look
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Speaker 2: at what other people are going through and be able
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Speaker 2: to be a voice for them, because guess what, I
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Speaker 2: could end up just where you are. Anybody could end
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Speaker 2: up just where you are, because God, there's no respect
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Speaker 2: to a person. These people don't care about nobody I'm
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Speaker 2: just sitting here just looking at you know, something that
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Speaker 2: happened to somebody last month that could have ended up
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Speaker 2: they could have been in jail for fifty years. They
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Speaker 2: was trying to get that man twenty five I think
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Speaker 2: they said, twenty five of life in a third thirteen
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Speaker 2: second video clips save that man's life. A thirteen second
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Speaker 2: police cam saved his life. The police forgot to turn
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Speaker 2: the camera off. He he he turned it off too
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Speaker 2: too late. And thirteen ten seconds of what this man
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Speaker 2: was telling the truth. And they was trying to get
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Speaker 2: this man the Pola bargain, and they kept telling him
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Speaker 2: he was telling a lie. This is what happened, and
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Speaker 2: this is what been happening for decades. And they sit
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Speaker 2: in these these these chambers and they look at these
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Speaker 2: these documents and they just throw them around them. They
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Speaker 2: dance and they say, oh, I'm not gonna do this.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do this for so and so. And
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Speaker 2: they look at the records and they say, oh, well
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Speaker 2: let me see if this person. Now. I've had even
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Speaker 2: had people come on here and say so and so
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Speaker 2: saying they give me this amount of money and this
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Speaker 2: amount of money, they'll do this for me, and then
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Speaker 2: I could just go back to where they I could
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Speaker 2: just go to Mexico and hide out. These are these
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Speaker 2: are these are these are elected officials. These are people
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Speaker 2: that have taken sworn oaths, that are doing crazy stuff
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Speaker 2: like that, and they're doing it all for for for
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Speaker 2: money and greed and power.
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Speaker 3: Judge, my granddaddy down here at gave my uncle a
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Speaker 3: life in it. Tonight it retires.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, see, that's crazy, that's crazy. When you got mister Jack,
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Speaker 2: Charles said, you have a lot of people in your corner. Cody. Yeah, me,
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Speaker 2: it's Becky Lorenz. Thank you for what you're doing. Well.
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Speaker 2: I just want you to know that no matter what
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Speaker 2: it looked like, you stay strong and you just keep
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Speaker 2: your head up and you keep being positive. You keep
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Speaker 2: being a role model, You keep uplifting those and keep
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Speaker 2: helping those that are lost. You keep helping them find
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Speaker 2: a way because trust and believe it ain't gonna always
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Speaker 2: be like this. And trust and believe everything that's been
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Speaker 2: done in the dark is gonna soon won't come to
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Speaker 2: the light. That That is my prayer. That is that
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Speaker 2: is my prayer. That is my prayer. Mister Jack said
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Speaker 2: he's a friend of your mom and dads. But you
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Speaker 2: got a lot of people pulling for you, you got
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Speaker 2: a lot of people praying for you. And I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: keep sharing. I'm gonna keep sharing this and I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: keep talking about it and and and and keep bringing
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Speaker 2: awareness to what's going on because there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people in the same position you in. But I wanna
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Speaker 2: thank you for for being strong enough to come on
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Speaker 2: and to share and to be transparent because a lot
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Speaker 2: of people, you know, a lot of people are in
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Speaker 2: your same situation, but they're being quiet. They're they're they
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Speaker 2: they don't want to share because they's they're afraid what
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Speaker 2: may happen. But I thank you for sharing. I thank
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Speaker 2: you for being that voice for that person that think
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Speaker 2: that they don't have a voice. You just keep doing
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Speaker 2: what you're doing, and know that any time you want
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Speaker 2: to come back, if you have any updates that you
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Speaker 2: want to share, if you just want to come on
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Speaker 2: and share, you just want to come on and just
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Speaker 2: share something out to something encouraging to the people, just
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Speaker 2: to just to be in the courage man, however you
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Speaker 2: want to do it, if you want to come on,
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Speaker 2: just just let me know. And you're more than welcome
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Speaker 2: to come back and and and be a part.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I thank you very much to share my story
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Speaker 3: and getting out there. Like you said, the more like
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Speaker 3: they were talking about a couple of months brought up
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Speaker 3: the dope and all that that that was for them
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Speaker 3: to ut down. But the way my mama put it
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Speaker 3: is like they can't all this, all this stuff that's
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Speaker 3: going on down here getting so much attention, so much
23:57
Speaker 3: attention that they can't keep another rug.
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Speaker 2: No more so that to try and make it look like, no,
24:06
Speaker 2: they can't fix that problem because they are the problems problem.
24:11
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. They can't the problem because
24:13
Speaker 2: they are the problem. They they try to act like
24:16
Speaker 2: how the inmates bringing drugs and if there's a drug problem,
24:19
Speaker 2: how the drugs getting there because the inmates are not
24:21
Speaker 2: going nowhere, It makes are not leading people are bringing
24:27
Speaker 2: those drugs in there, and it's not it's not visitors
24:30
Speaker 2: because at that time y'all was not even having visits y'all.
24:33
Speaker 2: Y'all was still on real really still on that COVID stuff,
24:37
Speaker 2: So y'all not getting visits like that. So no, ain't
24:40
Speaker 2: nobody bringing nothing in there. It's the people that work there.
24:43
Speaker 2: It's the people that work there. It's the people that
24:46
Speaker 2: work there, and until they look look at that, Like
24:50
Speaker 2: I keep telling people, it's gonna take outside. It's gonna
24:54
Speaker 2: take the FBI or the department. Literally get that place
25:00
Speaker 2: cleaned up. Like literally, some of those places gonna have
25:03
Speaker 2: to be shut down, like some of them need to
25:05
Speaker 2: be tore down. Hey, and some these people need to
25:08
Speaker 2: come home. Like literally, I've been on I've been.
25:12
Speaker 3: On the unit for eleven years and I've been a
25:14
Speaker 3: doing now, but on the buildings, and in ten years
25:17
Speaker 3: on the building, and I lived in probably pre sales
25:20
Speaker 3: that didn't leave when it rained. And I'm talking like
25:23
Speaker 3: full water running down the wall on the inside, buzz
25:26
Speaker 3: and jail every time you range, and they're like that
25:30
Speaker 3: all over all over the unit because it's all prefabbed
25:34
Speaker 3: and it's built with such poor quality, you know, thirty
25:37
Speaker 3: years ago, and they don't And now I know the
25:40
Speaker 3: other side. You know, used to we would say, man, maintenance,
25:44
Speaker 3: don't fixed up. And now I work in maintenance. I
25:46
Speaker 3: got an opportunity to get a job in the boiler
25:48
Speaker 3: room learning how to work on all that stuff. And
25:51
Speaker 3: the way their system is so so sorry with having
25:57
Speaker 3: a good approve and all that. Like they they have
26:00
Speaker 3: so much money and then it's gone and they spend
26:03
Speaker 3: it on thes or that, and they don't have parts
26:05
Speaker 3: like uh, somebody toilet might be brought. They're broke all
26:10
Speaker 3: over the place, a lot of them. I'll give you
26:11
Speaker 3: a great example. A lot of the dayroom toilets. When
26:14
Speaker 3: you toush them, they leak all over the floor because
26:17
Speaker 3: the wax swing at the bottoment is both and they
26:19
Speaker 3: don't have the parks. They can't get up for they
26:22
Speaker 3: order them and they don't get up send. So you
26:25
Speaker 3: have all these shoes and all that all over the place.
26:27
Speaker 3: I have all run as bills all that, and Hunchville
26:34
Speaker 3: won't allow the maintenance department to give the correct parts
26:37
Speaker 3: and proficient they show it be conficient.
26:39
Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy, they they it's crazy. It makes no sense, right.
26:48
Speaker 2: I got a call from the unbusman the other y'all
26:51
Speaker 2: probably had some visitors the other day to look at
26:55
Speaker 2: your food, because I got a report that they was
27:00
Speaker 2: feeding y'all maggots or something. I don't care what it was.
27:04
Speaker 2: Somebody said it wasn't maggots, it was worms. It was
27:08
Speaker 2: some kind of worms. I don't care what it was,
27:10
Speaker 2: and the fact that they were serving it to y'all
27:12
Speaker 2: in your food. They already feed y'all substandard food, and
27:16
Speaker 2: I'm not standing for them serving y'alls other than food.
27:21
Speaker 2: Now they're not from the serve No worms, no maggots,
27:23
Speaker 2: no none of that. So I called. I sent a
27:27
Speaker 2: letter to them letting them know that they needed to
27:30
Speaker 2: do something, and that I was gonna let everybody know
27:33
Speaker 2: that I could let know that this, this is what
27:36
Speaker 2: y'all are serving these inmates. These are humans they had,
27:40
Speaker 2: and y'all are violating them by serving them maggoted food.
27:44
Speaker 2: They weren't just doing it at y'all unit. They was
27:46
Speaker 2: doing it at Conley unit. So they sent someone over
27:49
Speaker 2: to Connley to come to find out they did have
27:51
Speaker 2: stuff in y'all food, and they had to throw out
27:54
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of food. But he hadn't got back
27:57
Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, because they're not going to serve that.
28:06
Speaker 2: And then in time somebody tell me that they serving
28:09
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and they serving yeah, And now I
28:13
Speaker 2: want the food that they're supposed to be serving y'all
28:16
Speaker 2: that they showing on these websites that the fresh vegetables,
28:20
Speaker 2: the fresh fruit. Then that's what I need them to
28:23
Speaker 2: be serving y'all. I don't need them to be serving
28:24
Speaker 2: y'all the crap that they serving y'all. I need them
28:27
Speaker 2: to serve y'all what they say they serving y'all. And
28:29
Speaker 2: until they do that, I'm gonna keep complaining. I'm gonna
28:34
Speaker 2: keep righting them posing on the blog, and I want
28:36
Speaker 2: the family members to share it out and to keep
28:40
Speaker 2: sharing it out. And not only that, if they are
28:44
Speaker 2: in these areas where they are holding these different events,
28:47
Speaker 2: because they're in February, they're gonna be having a the
28:50
Speaker 2: campus culture over at Connolly, They're gonna be having an
28:53
Speaker 2: event and it's open to the public. They just gotta register.
28:59
Speaker 2: I've been sending the Evening Hell around, but Securist or
29:02
Speaker 2: either TDTJ, they've been blocking the email. I think I
29:06
Speaker 2: sent it to you and a couple of other people
29:08
Speaker 2: and they blocked it. They will let y'all get it.
29:13
Speaker 2: But it has the information about it has the information
29:19
Speaker 2: about the I posted it on the blog so they
29:24
Speaker 2: can go over to Free Texas campaign blog, which is posted.
29:28
Speaker 2: It's posted inside of this link. So everybody that's on
29:32
Speaker 2: here is already inside the description so you can look
29:36
Speaker 2: at it. All those links have different things that y'all
29:38
Speaker 2: can follow and get information because I post information about
29:42
Speaker 2: different things that they're doing when we have different rallies,
29:45
Speaker 2: different things. Again, Cody, thank you for stopping by, and
29:48
Speaker 2: you're welcome back at any time. Okay, I want to
29:55
Speaker 2: thank y'all for tuning in and if y'all would please
29:58
Speaker 2: share this out, share this out. My desire is just
30:04
Speaker 2: to be a blend and to just be a voice
30:06
Speaker 2: and allow these individuals to come on and to share
30:09
Speaker 2: their story so that we can bring awareness to what
30:12
Speaker 2: has been going on within TDCJ, the textas judicial system,
30:16
Speaker 2: and just various different types of things that's taking place
30:19
Speaker 2: that should not be taking place. These are humans. I
30:22
Speaker 2: don't care what they have done. No matter what they
30:25
Speaker 2: have done, they are still humans and they all deserve
30:28
Speaker 2: another chance. People don't understand that we all make mistakes
30:33
Speaker 2: and we're all human and we all could be right there.
30:37
Speaker 2: Some of us are lucky, by grace and mercy that
30:40
Speaker 2: we are not behind prison wall, because some of us
30:42
Speaker 2: have done some stuff that should have lit us in prison,
30:45
Speaker 2: but we didn't end up in prison. So we should
30:48
Speaker 2: be grateful, and then not only that, we shouldn't sit
30:50
Speaker 2: by and watch our love ones go through what they're
30:56
Speaker 2: going through and not say that, y'all, it's too many
30:59
Speaker 2: of us on the outside. They can band together and
31:01
Speaker 2: can stand together and make a difference. I want to
31:04
Speaker 2: thank you guys for tuning in today and listening to
31:10
Speaker 2: Mster Cody. He at his time was up. Y'all know
31:14
Speaker 2: they only get documnutes. But I'll be back next Monday.
31:18
Speaker 2: I do this every Monday, so every Monday we have
31:22
Speaker 2: an opportunity to hear from four individuals. They come on,
31:27
Speaker 2: they share their stories, they share what's going on inside
31:30
Speaker 2: t DCJ. Some of them share different things that happened
31:35
Speaker 2: that landed them in t DCJ. You you got to
31:39
Speaker 2: look at how some of these corrupt lawyers did not
31:42
Speaker 2: represent them well, there were holes in their representation. And
31:48
Speaker 2: then you look at how some of these lawyers became
31:51
Speaker 2: assistant district attorneys, then they became district attorneys and then
31:54
Speaker 2: got on the Court of Appeal and lock these babies
31:57
Speaker 2: out up of the judicial system. They go up for
32:01
Speaker 2: parole and get denied. They get a one year set out,
32:03
Speaker 2: they get a year set out after year after year
32:06
Speaker 2: after year, and they get blocked out of the parole board. God,
32:09
Speaker 2: this is nothing more than political them being a political prisoner.
32:13
Speaker 2: This is more than political power. This is no more
32:17
Speaker 2: than political greed. It's all about money. It's all about
32:20
Speaker 2: keeping these beds in these facility house because these people
32:25
Speaker 2: are making trillions of dollars off of these inmates a year.
32:31
Speaker 2: That's how they're able to spend in eleven million dollars
32:36
Speaker 2: to go house inmates in another state. How can you
32:40
Speaker 2: send eleven and that it's just one county senate eleven
32:45
Speaker 2: million dollars to house inmates in another state, in the
32:47
Speaker 2: state of Mississippi, when we can be using that eleven
32:52
Speaker 2: million dollars right here in the state of Texas to
32:56
Speaker 2: let some of these inmates go to get transition programs together,
33:00
Speaker 2: to to to put that money back into the prison,
33:03
Speaker 2: to get the food that they deserve, to get the
33:05
Speaker 2: proper housing, to get the proper It's so much that
33:07
Speaker 2: could be gone with that eleven million dollars. Y'all writing
33:15
Speaker 2: all things and what things?
33:20
Speaker 3: Where has it all.
33:21
Speaker 2: The blue from.
33:22
Speaker 3: Skys but boys.
33:26
Speaker 2: Blow from the north from the south.
33:28
Speaker 1: Things?
33:30
Speaker 2: Well, person, all things ain't what they used to be.
33:47
Speaker 2: But hey, hey, y'all, Hey y'all, Hey, y'all. I hope
33:50
Speaker 2: y'all enjoyed that replay. That was a replay from one
33:54
Speaker 2: of the individuals inside TDCJ that I had the opportunity
33:58
Speaker 2: to sit down and chat with them about their story.
34:01
Speaker 2: I want to thank you guys for tuning in tonight.
34:03
Speaker 2: Like always, I want you guys to take this opportunity
34:07
Speaker 2: to share about those that are wrongfully, overly and unfairly incarcerated.
34:14
Speaker 2: Definitely take this opportunity to share. Channette would be back
34:18
Speaker 2: on Monday. I think she has a show on Monday,
34:21
Speaker 2: not sure, but she would be back with her regular show. Y'all.
34:26
Speaker 2: We traveled on today, so we were a little tired,
34:29
Speaker 2: so that's why I decided to do the replay on tonight.
34:32
Speaker 2: But I knew it would be something that you guys
34:34
Speaker 2: could definitely take something away from this guy. He had
34:41
Speaker 2: an issue. He used alcohol. He abused alcohol and was
34:47
Speaker 2: in a bad accident. Unfortunately, he did also once death.
34:56
Speaker 2: Should he be in prison for the rest of his life, No,
35:00
Speaker 2: it is evident that he had a problem that they
35:02
Speaker 2: provide him any type of rehabilitative services. Or anything that
35:07
Speaker 2: could help him deal with his problem. Put him away
35:10
Speaker 2: in prison does not deal with his problem because if
35:14
Speaker 2: he has an alcoholic problem, that problem still is going
35:17
Speaker 2: to exist. So if you did this to one person,
35:19
Speaker 2: what are you doing for the next person that's gonna come.
35:23
Speaker 2: We have to learn how to put put programs in
35:29
Speaker 2: place that can help individuals that have a problem. We
35:32
Speaker 2: can't just allow individuals to make a mistake, because we
35:36
Speaker 2: all make mistakes. Some of us just been lucky and
35:39
Speaker 2: had the grace to not get caught. But if the
35:43
Speaker 2: truth be told, a lot of us we should be
35:46
Speaker 2: behind those prison walls because we don't got away with
35:48
Speaker 2: some stuff. But you have individuals that did not do
35:52
Speaker 2: the crimes that they have been charged with. And it
35:57
Speaker 2: is sad that a lot of the states, and we're
36:01
Speaker 2: just gonna talk about United States as a whole, there's
36:04
Speaker 2: a lot of corruption going throughout these states that need
36:08
Speaker 2: to be addressed, and we as people have to stand
36:11
Speaker 2: up and speak out and share. We can't continue to
36:15
Speaker 2: be quiet and allow these things to continue to happen
36:20
Speaker 2: because our race, are our generation, those that are coming
36:25
Speaker 2: behind us are gonna be affected by this. So I'm
36:29
Speaker 2: challenging you guys. If you have never voted before, please
36:35
Speaker 2: go out and vote. If you're in high school and
36:39
Speaker 2: you're gonna be eighteen before the election, go registered to vote.
36:45
Speaker 2: Allow your voice to count. Elect this election be your
36:50
Speaker 2: first stand as an adult. But if you continue to
36:55
Speaker 2: sit by and do nothing, we'll continue to see the
36:59
Speaker 2: same cycle, continue to see the same things happen again.
37:02
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37:05
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