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ROR 167: Something Needs to Change · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if the
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  Speaker 1: present Department of Correction read an in state prison to
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  Speaker 1: accept this call, crass zero.
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  Speaker 2: This is Randall bob Aka read on you, Randy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years
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  Speaker 3: for capital murder and arm robbery now and finally at
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  Speaker 3: a level three fucking Air Correctional Center sowa's throw from
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  Speaker 3: where I grew up. If you have any questions or
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  Speaker 3: comments and want to leave a message or whatever, I've
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  Speaker 3: got a voicemail line.
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  Speaker 2: That number is one eight eight eight five Zuit four
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  Speaker 2: one nine three suit.
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  Speaker 3: You can also visit my website which is new and
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  Speaker 3: improved and got different features and whatnot at deput Debut
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  Speaker 3: do red on your Randy dot com.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you do.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get started with the podcast today. I'm actually gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk about.
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  Speaker 2: The State of Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about. Uh, I'm gonna tell a
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  Speaker 3: story about something that my wife told me yesterday on
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  Speaker 3: the video visit that just had me freaking dist you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna tie it into because I've been raised
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  Speaker 3: by the State of Virginia since i was eleven years old,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and a young man was just murdered by
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  Speaker 3: the CEOs at Wallings Fridge. And believe it or not,
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  Speaker 3: in Canada, the prisoners have their own sort of holiday,
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  Speaker 3: their own, you know, sort of remembrance day, August tenth,
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  Speaker 3: National Prisoner Justice Day, and it's for everyone who died
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  Speaker 3: while they was incarcerated, whether it be through suicide, the
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  Speaker 3: brutality of the CEO's medical.
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  Speaker 2: Neglect, or what not.
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  Speaker 3: On that day in Canada, they fast, they don't eat nothing,
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  Speaker 3: car as I know, they don't drink nothing, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: not one hundred percent shore on that, and it's simply
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  Speaker 3: to honor and show respect for those who lost their life.
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  Speaker 2: While in custody.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I'm gonna talk about today. The thing
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  Speaker 3: that I'm gonna start with the story that my wife
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  Speaker 3: shared with me on the video visit she was watching,
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  Speaker 3: and it actually took place here in Virginia. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know this couple's name, and quite frankly, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to simply because I would like to stay out of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to go back
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  Speaker 2: to being that old man.
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  Speaker 3: And by the time I'm finished telling you this story,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to understand, because you're going to want to
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  Speaker 3: do something to these two people yourself. So you had
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  Speaker 3: this guy, he was married and they had a son.
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  Speaker 3: A few years into the marriage, what have you.
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  Speaker 2: The wife becomes addicted to drugs.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know why, but she does. So the god divorces her.
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  Speaker 3: He gets custody of their son, and he leaves the
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  Speaker 3: woman and he moves someplace different. He meets another woman,
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  Speaker 3: they fall in love, they get married, and they start
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  Speaker 3: having children of their own. Now the stepmom more second wife,
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  Speaker 3: if you will hate the son from the first marriage,
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  Speaker 3: because one, I guess it's not hers, and two she
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  Speaker 3: actually hates her husband's ex wife. So instead of going
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  Speaker 3: and doing something to the ex wife, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: just being an adult and not doing anything about it,
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  Speaker 3: because what's the point, she abuses the kids. And to
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  Speaker 3: the best of her knowledge, the father never did anything
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  Speaker 3: to his own son. However, he never did a damn
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  Speaker 3: thing to stop it. And by abuse.
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  Speaker 2: I mean straight up abuse.
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  Speaker 3: The lady would literally put this boy in a cage,
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  Speaker 3: in actual cage and locket shut and she would leave
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  Speaker 3: him in there for months at a time, made him
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  Speaker 3: wear diapers, would not feed him, would starve him until
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  Speaker 3: he was so hungry that her and her other kids
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  Speaker 3: would throw dog shit into the cage and the boy
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  Speaker 3: would have to eat it, and he getting sick, getting
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  Speaker 3: messed up. Would not treat him, taken to the hostile nothing,
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  Speaker 3: They didn't take him to school.
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  Speaker 2: He basically grew up living in a fucking cage, and
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  Speaker 2: he managed to escape several times and ran away, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get back to his real moms.
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  Speaker 3: Even though she was a junkie. He would much rather
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  Speaker 3: be living with her than them, and for good reason. However,
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  Speaker 3: the cops would always catch him and they would take
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  Speaker 3: him back. He would tell the cops they did nothing.
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  Speaker 3: They just drove him back and said, your son ran away.
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  Speaker 3: Here he is, and would turn him over to the
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  Speaker 3: father or the stepmom. Back in the cage, he goes
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  Speaker 3: back to the abuse, back to being forced to eat
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  Speaker 3: dog shit and starving him him and you know, doing
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  Speaker 3: all these other things to him. The judge when the judge,
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  Speaker 3: when when the kid finally died, I think everybody seen
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  Speaker 3: that one coming right there. The kid did die, And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how the cops found out that the
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  Speaker 3: child died or or what the case was. My wife
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  Speaker 3: never did, you know, tell me that. You know, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 3: by the time we got to the point where the
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  Speaker 3: kid died, both of us was pretty an upset. And
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  Speaker 3: but she was telling me that she was watching, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of the trial and stuff, and that
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  Speaker 3: the judge was crying like he was balling his eyes
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  Speaker 3: out talking about what they.
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  Speaker 2: Did to this little boy. And the dad is just
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  Speaker 2: sitting there not a care in the world. This boy
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  Speaker 2: ran away from home, poled the cops. Cops did nothing
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  Speaker 2: but giving back to the parent, to the dad, to
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  Speaker 2: the stepmom. Why are they not on trial? Why are
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  Speaker 2: they not being investigated by the Attorney General's office, by
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia State Police, held by their own department.
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  Speaker 3: And it reminds me of being raised by the State
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  Speaker 3: of Virginia. You know, my dad was a piece of work.
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  Speaker 2: My mom was neglectful. Dad beat the hell out of me.
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  Speaker 3: They never never locked me in a cage. Took the
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  Speaker 3: State of Virginia to actually do that. But my own
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  Speaker 3: dad didn't lock me in a cage. My own mom
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  Speaker 3: didn't feed me dogs. I mean, like you know, we
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  Speaker 3: always didn't have a lot of food, and with plenty
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  Speaker 3: of times where all we had was just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of spoonfuls of rice with a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of sugar on top of it. You know, maybe you know,
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  Speaker 3: two slices of white bread with a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: spaghetti sauce popped into you know, the oven for a
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  Speaker 3: little bit to make sort of like a fake pizza.
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  Speaker 3: I actually really loved those as a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: But I was raised by the state. Once the state
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  Speaker 2: got ahold of me, like.
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  Speaker 3: I reached out, I tried. And that's the thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not making excuses.
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  Speaker 2: I did what I did, and I own it.
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  Speaker 3: I reached out for help. This little boy reached out
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  Speaker 3: for help.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I hate the state of Virginia. I just
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  Speaker 2: spy the state of Virginia, or at least the government
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  Speaker 2: part of it. You know, I'm proud to be a Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely do take pride where I was born, that
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  Speaker 2: this is my home. You know. I love the history
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia, the.
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  Speaker 3: Good, the bad, the ugly. You see, I don't take
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  Speaker 3: just one part, not anymore. I used to, and that's
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons why my life was so up.
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  Speaker 3: I would only focus on the good. I would only
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  Speaker 3: not the good, only the good feeling, the thing that
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  Speaker 3: made me feel good. I didn't look at the whole
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  Speaker 3: and learn something from everything and take a little bit
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  Speaker 3: from everything. Look, I'm not anti copp. I don't believe
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  Speaker 3: in defunding the police. I've said it before and I've
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  Speaker 3: said it again. You better thank God for the police.
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  Speaker 3: You better thank God for the prison system.
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  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 3: I want all of these murderers and rapists and child
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  Speaker 3: molesters and drug addicts and junkies and all this on
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  Speaker 3: the street with your families, your loved ones, in your community.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want that. I don't want that, but something
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  Speaker 3: has to be done. We need something better than the
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  Speaker 3: system we have in place.
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  Speaker 2: Just last week you had a young man at Walling's Ridge.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: How the incident started. I don't care. It's irrelevant. The
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  Speaker 3: CEOs beat this man while he was shackling, handcuffed, drug
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  Speaker 3: him the solitary confinement, put him in the cell and
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  Speaker 3: put him in five point restraints. For those of you
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  Speaker 3: who don't know what five point restraints is this, They
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  Speaker 3: cut the clothes off of you until your neck it.
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  Speaker 3: They stretch you out on a bed They put restraints
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  Speaker 3: around your forehead, they put restraints around your chest, they
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  Speaker 3: put restraints around your waist. They chain your wrist to
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  Speaker 3: each side of the bed, they chain your ankles to
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  Speaker 3: each side of the bed. They'll put another strap across
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  Speaker 3: your knees. And then they beat the band again.
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  Speaker 2: And then they left him in there and he dies.
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  Speaker 3: What is it going to take for you people in
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  Speaker 3: society to step up and say enough is enough, to
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  Speaker 3: say stop warehousing them and actually start in teaching them
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  Speaker 3: how to be men, teaching them how to be women,
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  Speaker 3: teaching them how to be responsible adults. We put ourselves
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  Speaker 3: in here, and.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, But at the end of the day, if
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  Speaker 2: you do not hold the people that are working in here,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't hold the social workers, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: hold Child Protected Services, if you don't hold the police,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't hold the Department of Corrections, the wardens,
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  Speaker 2: the prison guards accountable for their actions.
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  Speaker 3: This is what happens. But most of you who listen
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  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was able to turn my life around, and
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  Speaker 2: I was able to do it at red Onion, I
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  Speaker 2: was able to do it. It can hell on earth.
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  Speaker 3: Solitary confinement.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to do it in.
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  Speaker 3: A war zone in Gangland, and I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Have nobody to hold my hand while I was doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It was just me and my belief in God. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of you listen to me because I have some.
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  Speaker 3: Hard warned wisdom, because I can talk to you, I
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  Speaker 3: can reach you.
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  Speaker 1: I I.
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  Speaker 2: Have a way with words.
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  Speaker 3: I can be entertaining, I can be funny, I can
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  Speaker 3: be serious. I can I can move your emotions out.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you stories. I can give you advice.
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  Speaker 2: But when you are allowing.
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  Speaker 3: Our congressmen and our senators, and even if you're not
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  Speaker 3: in this country, what about the prisoners in your own country,
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  Speaker 3: in your own prison system that are being abused and mistreated.
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  Speaker 3: Who in there could be the next red Onion Randy
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  Speaker 3: if he's not murdered by the CEOs. Or when a
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  Speaker 3: kid goes up to a cop and tells him, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm being abused. Instead of being too busy chasing a
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  Speaker 3: con donut and a couple of coffee and some Instagram models,
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  Speaker 3: he actually does his job and he saves that little
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  Speaker 3: boy's life.
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  Speaker 2: Because you never know, you never know who's going to die.
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  Speaker 3: And here on a given basis, whether they set the
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  Speaker 3: hands of an inmate because there's nothing to do.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have one minute remaining, because they deliberately keep
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  Speaker 2: the phones at a bare minimum so that we're constantly
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  Speaker 2: fighting over the phones or the kiosk for the video
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  Speaker 2: visits or whatnot. Something has to change people. I did
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  Speaker 2: my changing, and I'm still changing.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for y'all. Don't just listen to me for entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to me for motivation to get up and do something,
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  Speaker 3: to try to help people. Because that's why I do this.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell war stories every week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to make a difference. I'm trying to build something.
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  Speaker 3: Build this with me, and maybe young men will stop
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  Speaker 3: dying in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can come home and do something good for
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  Speaker 2: a change. All right, that's uh, that's all the time
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  Speaker 2: we have for now. I appreciate you listening to me
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