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Welcome to another episode of The Crew Podcasts. Y'all, it's always something,
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If you would please share this out in your circle of influence, because
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you never know what the next person may be in need of. Tonight,
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I have a very special guest. Y'all know. We just release the book
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The Forgotten Queens, and then it's dedicated to those queens that are incarcerated within
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the TDCJ. I come across some individuals and they have touched my heart and
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God dropped in my spirit to do that book. And I have to give
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a shout out to the twenty queens that decided to share hope inside of that
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book. So shout out to you guys. Thank you y'all. We are
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another amazing queen that's behind prison walls and she's gonna be sharing a little bit
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with us tonight. If you would please introduce yourself to those that are tune
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in Shohama. I'm currently incorporated at the Hobby Unit, which is also known
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as Hobby Hell. It's pretty horrible here, guys. One story is kind
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of a tough one and it's hard on a capital murder charge and uh CO
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heard from my public offender attorney to uh flee out to a lesser charge of
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serious. It was serious, barkly tered. So he can't explain to me
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at all anything that was really going on. I was twenty five years old,
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I had three young and some circumstances with up to a horrible, horrible
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situation. And I was completely blond sided. I was completely blind sided and
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young, and I trested the I trusted the system. I trusted the system.
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My I was in county. I could maybe I love two here and
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uh waiting on trial. I went to trial. I didn't see what I
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atturney maybe two times before I went to trial. On the trial day,
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the day of Jerry's selection, he come in. He came in and bombarded
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me with, uh, I'm gonna you're gonna take a plea deal. And
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I was like, I'm not taking a see deal. I don't want to
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do that. I really don't understand, and that I just want to go
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on and tell my story of what happened. And he was like, you're
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facing the death county. They're going to kill you if you do take the
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fleet and said, I have three small kids, like to go home.
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I thought, I didn't want to do about it. I cried, I
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went in, Uh back to the pot I caught my grandmother, and I
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thought my grandmother was going on, and she advised me, you know,
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trusting the justice done, to do where the man said. So I did.
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I played out. I took to please you know. He told me
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I needed to change my story to match what the indictment said, and pretty
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much led me into a story. So I didn't realize that when I was
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going actually going. I thought I was going to trial, but I was
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actually doing that open plea. I didn't find out what an open plea was
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until I was already incarported on the Hobney Unit. Well, probably got nine
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years into my sentence, and I just felt like I was young. I
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was just led. I was pro hears even against my better judgment. I
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did what the attorney told me to do, and so then they took the
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attorney told me to say and lost my life. I lost everything. I
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have the seventy five year sentence. I've done nineteen years flat on a seventy
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five er since I lost my mother, I lost my grandmother, I lost
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my aunt, I bought my you. In a sense, I've lost everything
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I have death and the things that I do have, the people that I
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do have in my life are not even which you would consider blood family.
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It's a lady that it was the best best friend of an inn that was
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in my blood hand and her name has started it and she has been a
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pillar strength of my life. It's pretty hard in here, the things that
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we see, the things that we go through. Uh, we have to
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watch our peer be beta by other end that if we intervene, then we're
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in trouble. We don't intervene, then we're in trouble. You know,
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we're held accountable for what other people do. And uh, it's hard,
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it's difficult. We're alone in here. If we need help, we need
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help. So if you can help, if you can use your voice to
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help, we need it. Or not strends properly, we don't. We
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don't have to write. Our water is not clean. I was in the
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hobby unit, got a parasite that a through my intestens and had to have
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at least five different surgeries on my colon and uh, you know, I
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mean it's horrible. It just died. The way they do it, it
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really is, and we need help. They physically mentally abuse us. They
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try to go us into fighting even them, you know, and that's just
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crazy, because it's very, very crazy the things that go on here.
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Pretty much we have each other, we don't have each other, we don't
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have anything else, and they just need some help. We need help.
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That's sad. This is just another case of how the Texas judicial system alienates
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and victimize the citizens. Like I'm not from Texas and these cases they just
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baffle me and it it bothers me, Like, I don't see how the
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citizens of Texas allow this, and they keep allowing these people that are in
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charge in charge be in charge. You know, I'm listening and hearing different
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things from different people, and there's a pattern with the Texas judicial system.
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There's a serious pattern. There's there's corruption first of all, and and these
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lawyers it's like they're working with the prosecutors and the judges to meet quota and
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and and to meet these different things. You know, I'm finding out that
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they are paying these these expert witnesses thousands of thousands of dollars to come and
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be expert witnesses and then they getting on understand and lying and not even producing
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evidence, and they're just going along with what the people are saying. Now,
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I heard you say that your lawyer told you what to say and changed
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everything. Okay, So he pretty much the indictment or whatever had drawed out
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what they thought had happened or whatever the situation was, and they made you
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go along with that is what you're saying. When I called him the events
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of the day of that accident, he was like, I'm gonna get you
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out of here, and you don't have to worry about his money deal,
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you know. So I was I had high hopes, you know. And
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of course now that's not what happened became and he was like, repay complete
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Bill. They're gonna have the indictment, this, this, and this,
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and the story that you're telling me that you want to share with these people
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is behind go to match the indictment. So therefore it's like, and let
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you get the free built. So I need you to take the streets to
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match this, this, and this certain things out of the indictment. And
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I'm like, what, you know. It didn't feel right. It was
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not the right thing to do at all, and I went against my better
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judgment, but I just wanted to be believe that my mind, this name
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was trying to help me that and hen he was talking about but I have
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been incorporated, graduating in a paralegal course, and now I see no,
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I was never even eligible for that. They had no food or evidence of
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anything. You know, if I was to trial, it could have been
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a whole different ways. And I didn't know any of these things. So
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that's what That's exactly what happened. And uh yeah, and and and in
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Texas they used that you because you didn't know, It doesn't matter. It's
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not their fault that you didn't know, because they are on this time thing
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where you have a certain amount of time that you have to appeal to go
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against the judgment or whatever the case may be, whether you are innocent or
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not. That's what I'm finding out because there are so many people that did
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not commit the crimes that these people have said that they have committed, and
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they have been proven that they did not commit these crimes, have documentations,
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and these people still will not let them go home. And even judges have
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written inmates and told inmates that if this is true, and this is true,
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not trying to implicate themselves, but know that they are part of the
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problem, and know that they have the key to set these people free.
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But if they set them free, then they know that they're going to be
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in trouble. It's so much with the state of Texas to it's just crazy.
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I just can't believe that all this stuff is going on in the stateium
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the Texas and nobody is doing anything about it. You know, I'm hearing
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about the food. I'm hearing about the living conditions. Like last week,
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it's been about two weeks ago. I had to write a letter to the
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administration about food over at Connolly and McConnell. Worms and worms or maggots or
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whatever the case may be. They arguing about what it was. No the
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point that something outside of food was in food. That's an issue, that
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is a serious issue. So some people got fired and a whole bunch of
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food got thrown away. So they probably hot at me right now, but
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I don't care. Helpfully, Yeah, it's and there's an article. There's
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an article coming out in this month's magazine about you'all. Look that I've been
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making noise about the hobby unit for about two months now, So somebody gonna
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sooner or later, somebody gonna somebody gonna say something because I've been Yeah,
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they've they've been hearing it and I'm not stopping. Yeah. Oh, it's
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the water conditions. Like in the city of Marlon, where Hobby Union is
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located, they don't have water half as pump and the water conditions here are
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so horrible it's they stay the city of Markelin stays on the boil band.
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And I'm gonna say nine for some of the comms. They never tell the
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Prince. We're never notified. They never boil out of water. So when
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the rest of the city is on their boiled ends, but you here doesn't
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take cautions to make sure theur water is boiled and stuff like that. They
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don't even usually tell us. It's pretty discussing and that is a violation of
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your human rights. Everybody in everybody in those units need to be complaining.
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Y'all need to be complaining. Yeah, I try to as much as I
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can tell people to find diplomatically, to use the greements process to try to
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take things furner. But women don't really stick together in here. Well,
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there's a few of us that do, you know, and stand up and
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stick together, but the women here, they don't. A lot of the
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time we are interpertly from making a complaint the kind of the retaliation that goes
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on here. There was a time where if you wrote agreements on this unit,
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but the agreements officer which to tear it up and thrown away, you
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would never see it or hear from it if you care about it again,
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and a lot of the prompts the higher rank and don't take anything seriously like
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it's not as serious matter. It's just this is like one of the most
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quarterly rand units I have been on. If you want to be an inmate
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and you want to run around crazy and live your life and do what you
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want to do and don't have any structure, this is probably units to be
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on. But if you want structure, if you want to wake up to
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the routine and you know, make sure that you're going to get a shower
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every day, you're going to have to get out to chow every day,
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and this is really not the unit for that to happen, because nothing remains
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the same year every day. It's something different. There's like a spirit of
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oppression on the unit. It's very oppressive. It's horrible the way the staff
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act, how they talk to us, the things that they do. It's
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very very very professional and not helpful at all. I don't take anything serious.
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I literally had a throat what was it like maybe last summer the summer
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before last, had a stroke and the captains of the unit takes got me
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in a wheelchair. And I better not going to tell those people that my
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chest was hurting me because they didn't have enough staff to take me off to
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give it to the hospital. And the next day they sent me in a
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medical They left me here with no medical treatment because medical had already been closed.
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The next day they sent me in a medical and the nurse freaked out.
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She my food pressure had dropped so low that she immediately caused the provider
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and with the nine to one one yon unit and uh, of course they
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covered up and faced it was all due to a urinary tract infection. But
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at the side of my face went dumb and my chest was hurting, and
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that's not a gurinary attraction in faction and uh, some are all, but
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I don't care. Don't take care of each other. We can end up
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dead very easily, that's right. And that's an issue because they they and
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I keep stressing this and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let it go.
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If t d c J do not have enough officers to make sure that they're
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doing what they're supposed to do, that they're keeping these facilities properly staffed so
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that they can give out the nutritious meal. Because the meals are not nutritious.
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They're not making their rounds. So make sure that the welfare checks are
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being done. I've heard that some of the units never get welfare checks.
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They they these these people go in and they look whatever their cages and stay
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in their cages. That don't come out and check. They stay in their
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cages the whole time they were at work, and nobody is holding these people
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accountable. And that's what happened this past weekend over at Clemens, and h
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inmate walk right on out the door because they're not doing their jobs. It
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may walk right out the door and guess what happened. The two wardens got
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fired, a captain and some and some and some more correction officers, and
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they have not been doing their job. They've been over there just doing whatever
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and and letting whoever do whatever. Because I had some issues with with the
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warden over there anyway, because they were allowing other inmates to steal other inmates
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stuff, and they knew this was going on. Like, that's one of
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the units where you can go to school. So one of the guys that's
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a part of the Free Texas campaign, he is going to school. And
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he said twice he's went to school and come back and his whole sale had
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been wiped out. He said the last time, they took everything out of
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his cell but his bible, and they did absolutely nothing about it. And
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then they tried to give him a case because he told his family member,
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and his family member reported it and they tried to give him a case.
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He got bous case now and then now that all this stuff has happened over
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there, you got ranking officers telling him that hopefully, hopefully that they'll take
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those bogus charges off of him. How can y'all know that these people are
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doing this bous stuff? And y'all are like, but wow, a lot
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of people are everybody. Everybody related to everybody here, and then of course
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they have their relationships and stuff like that, and that's how it goes there.
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If one officer doesn't like you, then they can lie on you and
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take you did something they didn't do, and then they all sit together and
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they cover it up and it's really crazy. It's like it's like nobody has
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her own mind. So it doesn't be any good because the ranking offer on
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a correctional officer because them, that's something's going on, because they all pick
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together and cover everything that it's ridiculous, like nobody does the right thing here
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at all, whatever's right, they're doing the opposite of that. Wow,
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that is sad and like, well, like I say, I'm continuing to
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write these different different people, and as I write them, I said,
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I'm not just writing one person. I write a slew of them. There's
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probably about twenty to twenty five people included in these emails when I send them
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out. And I think the unbust when he might have been upset with me
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when I wrote about the food situation, but it got a couple of people
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fired and then they got a whole bunch of food got thrown out. And
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I think the guys at Connolly and the guys at McConnell, they kind of
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right now. But like I say, we were gonna keep making noise.
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You know, change is not gonna happen overnight, but just know that change
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is here. I just I changed that I desired this in this world.
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I can't sit quietly and allow anything that is out of the norm around me
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to be out of the norm, because I truly believe that once you come
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into the knowledge of something, you have to act upon that, because that's
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the word, and I just believe that. And this has been placed in
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my lap, has been placed in my hand, and I just have to
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be obedient. So I just I'm just doing what I can do to be
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a voice and to allow you guys to be able to share because me being
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me talking about it and me sharing, you know, people hearing it from
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you guys, it's the best thing. Because they hearing it directly from the
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people that are involved. They're not getting a third party because of course,
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you know that they're gonna be over there disputing it. Everybody in charge gonna
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be over there disputing it, and it's gonna be here, say he said.
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But if they hear it from you guys, they can hear exactly what's
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going on. Why would y'all lie, like, really, I think on
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helping us a platform to bounce off of, and you're helping us give us,
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help give us a voice again, And that's very amazing and I'm very
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very grateful for it. I believe that people make mistakes, but I don't
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believe that they are the mistakes, and I believe that people can come back
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from those and also just wondering, thank you for that. I appreciate you
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taking your time out and allow me to share with you the things that I
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got learning here and for us and an advocate for us that I feel like
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we don't have an advocate at many times. You know, well, I'm
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here, the platform is here, and y'all are more than welcome to come
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back, because I know just just thirty minutes is just not enough for you
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to be able to share everything. So anytime you you want to stop by,
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just let me know and we will get your own and allow y'all to
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share because I want people to really see. Thanks what's going on. You
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welcome sweetheart again, y'all. That was another young lady that is currently incarcerated
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within t d c J the hobby. Look unit, y'all, what these
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women are experiencing they should not be experiencing. It's basic human rights, the
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the the basic necessities of human rights to be being treated with dignity. You
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know, we all make mistakes. We all do stuff that we should not
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be doing. Just some of us we didn't get caught, so therefore we
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didn't end up in prison. But something they they are doing time they are
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they have accepted their punishment, and they're being punished for their their what the
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crime that they've done. You can't keep punishing somebody for something that they are
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like, help them, help them recover, help them rehab, help them
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to prepare to be able to come back to society. But with how these
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people are treating them and running them through the ringer, it's like you're tearing
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them down. You're wearing them down. You're wearing them then, and they're
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not gonna have the opportunity to come back to society and be productive citizens.
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You're giving these babies much, these young ladies that you're talking to, these
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individuals that are going in as juveniles, and then you're giving them fifty to
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seventy five and sometime one hundred years and they got to do forty of them.
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These kids are gonna be fifty five, fifty and sixty years old when
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they come out. What they gonna be able to do here? You having
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to take care of them all of this time, and then you have to
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take care of them again when they come finally do come home. Because sixty
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statistically in the state of Texas, sixty percent of the people that go up
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for parole never make parole. They are denied, so therefore they have to
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go to the door. I'm telling you Texas have some of the messed up
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laws, just like I don't get Greg Abbott right now. How are you
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passing a law where y'all finna start locking up everyone that they're gonna start stopping
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everyone that look like an immigrant, so they about the racially profile immigrants and
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if you look like an immigrant, you gonna be arrested. Prisons are already
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overflowing, you're already understaffed, but yet you want to put more You want
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to put more stress on a system that's already stressed out. You see what
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happened this weekend, what happened a couple of months ago at the same facility.
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It maates just walking out like the State of Texas. Y'all need to
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get it together because the world is watching and you are failing terribly, terribly.
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Citizens. You need to wake up and take a stand and get these
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people out of office that's not doing what they're supposed to be doing. If
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they are elected officials, they need to do what they supposed to be doing,
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and a lot of them are not. Hold them accountable, Hold them
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accountable. Well, I want to thank you guys for joining me. I
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know on y'all was like, where is Bernadette. Well, Bernadette is from
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Canada. She was not feeling well today. So I am going to bring
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her back on and in twenty twenty four. Some of these individuals SPLs that
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did not get the opportunity to come on for whatever reason another we're gonna bring
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them back in twenty twenty four if the opportunity is available, and we're gonna
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try to get them back on for twenty twenty four. But again, I
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want to thank everyone that has tuned in tonight. If you have not grabbed
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