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21 DAY CHALLENGE | Day 4: A Day in My Literary Life (Behind the Scenes) WITH QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Go on live, going live, y'all. It's day four. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Welpome welcome, welcome, Getting ready to go live over here
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  Speaker 1: on tiktop, getting on a screen, set up, get ready
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  Speaker 1: to go live, y'all. We are day four of just
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day challenge. So come on in, Come on in,
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  Speaker 1: Come on in. Let's see what today's topic is, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: See what today's topic is. It is. I didn't post
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  Speaker 1: it up on the screen, but I got it, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got it. I got it today's topic. Hold on, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get this ready over here, Day four
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  Speaker 1: of turning on Day challenge Reasibility Challenge. At that you
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  Speaker 1: on your brand, Just in case you didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: you are a representation of your brand. Twenty one days
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  Speaker 1: of visibility. We are day for, y'all. We are day for.
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  Speaker 1: We are day for. Get ready to go live over
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  Speaker 1: here on Facebook, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube, y'all. So let
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  Speaker 1: me get my get my stuff together right here, real quick, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, well quick, real quick. We click,
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  Speaker 1: So I gotta get myself together. Let me pull up
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  Speaker 1: my content for today, y'all. Let me pull up my
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  Speaker 1: content for today, trying to find my.
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  Speaker 3: Home.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know how to.
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  Speaker 1: M my other and here rem when I can't get
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  Speaker 1: the front with I need. So let's get back over here,
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  Speaker 1: get that pull back up, let me get more people
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  Speaker 1: set up. I won't be able to see you guys
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  Speaker 1: if y'all come up, because I gotta I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to use the screen. So let me get Let me
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  Speaker 1: get going, y'all. Come on in, Come on in, come
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  Speaker 1: on in, Come on here, y'all. We are day four
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty one day challenge. Let me see what
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  Speaker 1: is going on. I don't ain't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what is going on. But you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know when we feel like fooling with this
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  Speaker 4: right now. I don't even feel like fooling with.
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  Speaker 1: That right now now. People don't wanna act right. I
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  Speaker 1: just wanna come up. So, y'all, this is what we
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  Speaker 1: deal with when we're dealing with this what's the name?
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  Speaker 1: We just keep it real. We just keep it real.
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  Speaker 1: We just be keeping it real. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: we be dealing with when we're dealing with these different
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  Speaker 1: devices and these different little things I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: set up, trying to get stuff going for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: so I can go ahead and get this challenge for
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  Speaker 1: today out of the way, because we're still doing the
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day Challenge Visibility Challenge, where.
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  Speaker 3: We are.
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  Speaker 1: Show showing our brands and be invisible, making connections connect
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  Speaker 1: them with those that support the things that we do.
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  Speaker 1: So y'all, I am getting ready to pull up our
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  Speaker 1: challenge for today for those that are authors. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not attached to the one hundred out the movement, you
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  Speaker 1: still have an opportunity to get attached. Know that you
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  Speaker 1: can still get attached to what we're doing over there.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the four seeds, and the four seeds
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  Speaker 1: is communicate, connect, collaborate, creates and help community bill. The
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  Speaker 1: four seas is connect, communication, elaborate, create, and community bill.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing over at the one hundred Author Movements. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, everyone, Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: everyone welcome. If you are an author, you might want
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  Speaker 1: to hang around. If you are an author, you may
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  Speaker 1: want to stick around. This is I am an author
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  Speaker 1: and we are currently doing a twenty one day challenge
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  Speaker 1: a part of the one hundred Author movement. So I
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  Speaker 1: am going I am live right now, getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: discuss my day four we have. So, okay, I have
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  Speaker 1: to take this car. Hello, I have to take this
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  Speaker 1: car because this is one of the guys calling from
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  Speaker 1: the prison. I think it's Cornell, So I have to
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  Speaker 1: take this car. So I'm gonna take this call and
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  Speaker 1: then I'm gonna jump back on here and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about I'm still I'm still gonna be live, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take this call so I can, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'm gonna jump back on and we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about that challenge. Y'all. See, I told y'all this, this
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  Speaker 1: is what we do. We adapt, we adapt to what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. So I'm alive right now. So what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do is have this conversation with you guys. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: mister Cornell, how are you? I am currently live on TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: Twitch YouTube and so stack. So we were getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to talk about our day for challenge, but you called in.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I always have to yield the floor
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  Speaker 1: to you guys when y'all called in because I advocate
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  Speaker 1: and I support you guys. So how are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Ma'am. I'm doing great today, ma'am. And yes, ma'am, it's
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful day. So thank you, ma'am for allowing me
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  Speaker 3: to opportunity to be a boy today. So thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much.
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  Speaker 1: Man, So what what what can I say is going
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  Speaker 1: on in the current TDC J.
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  Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, you know a lot of gods to actually
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  Speaker 3: speak questions about why is this system so broken? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: And what it's just that outside people are trying to
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  Speaker 3: do the picture. Well, ma'am, it seems obvious that nobody
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  Speaker 3: is really you know, I'm not saying that ain't nobody
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  Speaker 3: trying to do something, but what that is they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do, ma'am, it's not even enough because it's like
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  Speaker 3: the handle is not even a movie, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first you got to understand this too. Going now,
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  Speaker 1: we we we as people have to understand this. We
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  Speaker 1: are we are talking from a black perspective. These white
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  Speaker 1: people don't want to hear nothing we got to say.
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  Speaker 1: So we're having to work extra, extra, extra, extra, extra hard.
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  Speaker 1: So what may have what may take white people only
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  Speaker 1: ten years, it's taking us thirty forty fifty years to
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  Speaker 1: even get people to start recognizing. You know, y'all may
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  Speaker 1: think that nobody sees, nobody hears, nobody is doing anything,
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  Speaker 1: but Babe, trust and believe there's so many people out
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  Speaker 1: here that is going to war that Jasmine Crockett from
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  Speaker 1: Texas and that she's something to be messed with, and
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  Speaker 1: let them keep messing with her. She gonna I'm voting
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  Speaker 1: for her. I'm writing her in the next election. If
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  Speaker 1: don't nobody vote her in, if she ain't on the
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  Speaker 1: ball that I'm writing her in because she need to
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  Speaker 1: be our next president if you want the truth be told.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, she's the only person I see that's walking
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  Speaker 1: around with a backbone and truly representing. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: about no agenda. This lady could be about so much more,
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  Speaker 1: but she's not. She's truly showing that she's about her people.
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  Speaker 1: And if we had a thousand more of her, we
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  Speaker 1: probably could be really seeing a change. But it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take all of us, and it's gonna take us doing
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  Speaker 1: something and not just talking. I mean, we can write
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  Speaker 1: people all day, and we can run for office and
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  Speaker 1: getting these offices and we can sit there, but we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to do the work. And it starts with us.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, and you're right now. See, I remember the
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  Speaker 3: times when you started following her, when she made a
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  Speaker 3: statement that her constituents in Austin or in the Capitol
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  Speaker 3: was not doing nothing, that they act like they didn't
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  Speaker 3: understand the process. And when she said Dan, you was like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: she's standing up. She acts like she talking like she
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  Speaker 3: got a back phone. So I ca what we call,
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  Speaker 3: ma'am when you saw that following her, and you have
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  Speaker 3: been following her every since. This was way last year somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: so you know it's obvious, ma'am that, like you say,
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  Speaker 3: she's sing a voice a book of the people in
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  Speaker 3: the right wing that if we had others like her,
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  Speaker 3: then things could possibly change. But ma'am, after right now, ma'am,
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  Speaker 3: get guys over here stressing pretty bad because it's only
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  Speaker 3: the over fifteen thousand people to make Corona. We're still here.
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  Speaker 1: So when was the last time one of them had
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  Speaker 1: their family members go down to the to the state House.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time one of them had their
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  Speaker 1: family member to write a letter to their representative. When
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  Speaker 1: was the last time one of them had a family
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  Speaker 1: member to contact their governor to to to to make
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  Speaker 1: some traction. I mean, we say all this stuff and
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  Speaker 1: we say, what ain't going on? But what are we
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  Speaker 1: doing to make some noise? And not just write a
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  Speaker 1: letter one time? Are we writing every week? Are we writing?
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  Speaker 1: We are these people knowing who you are? Are they
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  Speaker 1: when they get your email? Are they saying always hug in?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that what they're saying? Because I can guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you that's what they're saying about me, because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: letting up. And that's the attitude and and and that
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  Speaker 1: is the attitude that everyone else need to have. If
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  Speaker 1: there if that not the attitude and the drive and
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  Speaker 1: the motivation and the determination that they have, then it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to work. We can write a letter one
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  Speaker 1: time and say oh, well we've done something. No, we've
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  Speaker 1: not done anything.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I can say that meeting a part of
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  Speaker 3: your platform, you have affectively effectively push the kere for us,
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  Speaker 3: because ma'am, you have figured out a way how to
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  Speaker 3: tag everybody at one time. And I've been here, I've
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  Speaker 3: listened to you read their emails back to you. So
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  Speaker 3: asking the question about their individual families, we cannot to
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  Speaker 3: these individual statement position system governors or stuff like that, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it makes me think that they don't know what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing, or that say, the people that they do
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  Speaker 3: talk to, like a clerk or secretary, ma'am, they're not
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  Speaker 3: getting the results of their action. Fuck but I've seen you.
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  Speaker 1: But do you start one? Once you get that one
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  Speaker 1: person that does not give you the results, you know
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  Speaker 1: what you got to keep going you You got to
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  Speaker 1: tap into that person that is going to help you,
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  Speaker 1: like everybody is not. Everybody is not a person that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna help. And then if you if you tag
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, if you tag people that see
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  Speaker 1: that other people. When people start seeing that other people
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  Speaker 1: are being tagged and other people are being attached and
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  Speaker 1: other people are being it's called accountability when when you
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  Speaker 1: are holding people accountable. So I don't just send it
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  Speaker 1: to one person. I send it to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: even to people that may not have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. But I'm writing about when you know what
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  Speaker 1: they tell me they said, this is not for my department,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll forward it onto another department. Why they do
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  Speaker 1: that because in the beginning they wouldn't doing that, But
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  Speaker 1: why they do it now because they see that other
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  Speaker 1: people are attached to it. They see the other people
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  Speaker 1: see this. It's not just them in this email that
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  Speaker 1: there's other people in this email too, So maybe they
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  Speaker 1: need to try that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's true. You're absolutely right now because I'm sorry
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  Speaker 3: for Mother Telfers. I haven't lined up for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: And you can believe one thing. I have never ever
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  Speaker 3: seen some propound mind corsration over forty the directors. I
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  Speaker 3: have never seen all these people come to one unit
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  Speaker 3: at one time. Never Chris Carter treating Brusse people came
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  Speaker 3: to this unit because you put a post out there
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  Speaker 3: complaining to them about the unconstitutional living conditions here as
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  Speaker 3: at Sapien State their facility.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, and they need to do their job and
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  Speaker 1: how they act and then they go with the third
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  Speaker 1: party cars. Stop listening so hard, and you won't think
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  Speaker 1: we're on the third party car because we're not on
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  Speaker 1: a third party call.
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  Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, they did come, and they have been fiction
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  Speaker 3: everything that they can find. They shut the kitchen window
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  Speaker 3: down because they're not washing them thirty trades in that
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  Speaker 3: washing machine, and that washing them on the trans camps.
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  Speaker 1: So they're doing their job.
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  Speaker 3: The job.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing their job. They're making sure that you have
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  Speaker 1: a safe environment to cohabitate. You know, it's not about
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  Speaker 1: it's not about trying to make a what they say,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to make it a comfortable No, it's not
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  Speaker 1: about making it. But we're just trying to make you
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  Speaker 1: do your job. When you're trying to make you to
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  Speaker 1: make it a human habitable and not teat people like animals.
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  Speaker 1: Because just because people have committed a crime or in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of their cases, are wrongfully and overly incarcerated.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're finding out a lot of in a
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas and a lot around the United States
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  Speaker 1: that concerns our Brown people. A lot of them are
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  Speaker 1: wrongfully and overly incarcerated. And then on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: we have to deal with the inhumane things that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: We complain about what they're doing in l. L. Salvador
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  Speaker 1: and all those other places. Well, if y'all are dishearted
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  Speaker 1: about that, then think about what's happening right here on
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  Speaker 1: our own soult Those same things are happening right here
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  Speaker 1: within the prison system. You tell me how a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these prison systems are getting drugs in When you
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  Speaker 1: getting script search during this when you go visit. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the wardens I hear are saying that
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  Speaker 1: it's the family's reason why a lot of these drugs
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  Speaker 1: and stuff is stirc relating inside of the prison system,
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  Speaker 1: which is totally a lie. That's not no family members
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  Speaker 1: reason why they want to say no family members are
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  Speaker 1: sending money because they think they loved ones need something,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they find out that they love one
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  Speaker 1: is on drugs and that I can guarantee you, they're stopping.
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  Speaker 1: They're not contributing to sending no money to contribute to
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  Speaker 1: no habit that was developed inside that prison system. Because
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  Speaker 1: as I'm listening and talking to a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: people that are inside the prison system, they loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: we're not on drugs when they went in, So they
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  Speaker 1: developed this habit and they developed this addiction on the inside,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And that is across the board. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing across the board, and that.
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  Speaker 2: Is a problem.
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  Speaker 1: That is a serious problem, and it needs to be addressed,
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  Speaker 1: and it needs to start with the warden because he's
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  Speaker 1: in control of what goes on his facility. So if
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  Speaker 1: he's saying that it is the the family members, then
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing to make sure that the family
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  Speaker 1: members are not contributed. You know you have a point
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  Speaker 1: that you can play too, Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: That's true, ma'am. And see you made you made a
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  Speaker 3: point yesterday on your life regarding the fact that you
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  Speaker 3: know these people can do better about these inmates, especially
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  Speaker 3: those have already been granted in parole. Man, they should
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  Speaker 3: be able to set up an establishment now where these
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  Speaker 3: people are being streamed and these people being placed in
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  Speaker 3: the right and their right category of individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I wrote an article, I wrote these people. I've
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  Speaker 1: told these people I've been I've been speaking about that.
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  Speaker 1: I've even at t DCJ. If they wanted to sit
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  Speaker 1: down with me and I can work. I really could
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  Speaker 1: work on a program with them to show them how
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  Speaker 1: they can work these how they can work the inmates
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  Speaker 1: through the system, and it's a better system than what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. Just like we run i EPs for these
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  Speaker 1: kids and determine what they need to be able to
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  Speaker 1: graduate and making sure that they follow this plan so
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  Speaker 1: that they can graduate, then that's what we need to
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  Speaker 1: be doing in these prison systems. What is the classification
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  Speaker 1: really doing when you're classifying these these inmates, How are
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  Speaker 1: you classifying them. That's the whole that's the whole purpose
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  Speaker 1: of the classification process, the classification process. They should have
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  Speaker 1: these facilities. And I say it again, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna change what I'm saying. The facilities should be designed
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  Speaker 1: and set up to facilitate whichever realabilitation program that you're
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  Speaker 1: sending this person to. If you're sending them to a
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  Speaker 1: trade program, if they're gonna be learning a trade while
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  Speaker 1: they're there in the prison system, then you send them
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  Speaker 1: to a program that's gonna allow them to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get that trade. If they're objective is to get
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  Speaker 1: a four year degree or whatever type of degree, then
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  Speaker 1: you send them to a program that's gonna allow them
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  Speaker 1: to get that. If they have a drug problem, then
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  Speaker 1: you need to send them to a program that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: help them work with that drug problem so that when
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  Speaker 1: they come back out, when they go through this process,
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  Speaker 1: when they while they're being rehabilitated, they're truly being rehabilitated
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  Speaker 1: and not just pushed through. And that's what's happening. So
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  Speaker 1: when you got a process in plan ahead of time,
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  Speaker 1: then you can you can adjust and adapt to situation
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  Speaker 1: as they come up. But when you go in with
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  Speaker 1: no plan, you gonna have what you have there in TDCJ.
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  Speaker 1: Because they don't have a plan, they may can stuff
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  Speaker 1: up as they go. And we see this because we
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  Speaker 1: see it as things are planning out. We see the
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  Speaker 1: programs that they do have in place in certain other
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  Speaker 1: places and they are working. So why have you not
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  Speaker 1: modeled that program in other programs in other facilities. You
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  Speaker 1: got over one hundred and something facilities, but you only
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  Speaker 1: doing this program and one or two places, and then
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  Speaker 1: talking about the success of the program, But then really
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  Speaker 1: it's not a success because it's not TDTJ worldwide, it's
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  Speaker 1: not through the whole prison system. It's only at that facility.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can model that throughout the prison system,
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  Speaker 1: then we can start seeing the change, then we can
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  Speaker 1: start seeing stuff. But until we do that, we're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna see We're gonna continue to see the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And until these until these loved ones and and these
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  Speaker 1: people that vote in the state of Texas, these these
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  Speaker 1: citizens into the State of Texas decide that they want
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  Speaker 1: better and they want a better system, it's gonna continue
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  Speaker 1: to be the same thing. Because you ain't got nobody
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  Speaker 1: going down, You ain't got you ain't got nobody that's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: wanting to stand up, that's running for offices, that's that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: coming in and saying, Okay, this is what we need
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to do. This is the changes that need to be made.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I guess I need to move.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: To Texas correct on a lot of that man. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you know, like like now, Alan, you know these people
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: are pushing dealing right now. I can put on classes
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and programs, but they're not coming over here and looking
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: at this stuff for themselves. What the problem is.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, Can I get some people to tag Alma Allen?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Can I get some people to tag Alma Allen and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and ask Alma. If you are in Texas, please tag
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Elma Allen and ask her why she's not doing her job.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: If you are a if you are a Texas citizen
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and you are tuned in on this TikTok do YouTube,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: this twitch, it asks Alma Allen why she's not doing
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: her job? And and and listen to what the people
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: are saying. The people are speaking, and the people that
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: are speaking of the people that are concerned, the ones
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that y'all are talking about, the ones that are behind
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: these prison water. So go ahead, say tell Alma Allan
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: what you want her to do?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: And yeah, she spend always can recording hell information about
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: the programs, but she's not doing anything because I have
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: been lighting her.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm asking you. I want you to tell her.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: We don't want to talk about what we have done.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about what we need her to do.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So tell her today live on air, what you need
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Alma Alan Representative Alma Allen to do.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much, ma'am. My neighbor is Cornel Drummer.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I'm a Texas president made of thirty five years head
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: the Safe Jail feelity to mean, yes, you know the
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: rehabilitation f I six program. And I am coming to you,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: ma'am as a statement presentative pushing deals regarding the rehabilitation
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: divisions of the programs. And I'm asking for you, ma'am,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to get in with this, to come and see what's
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: going on in these facilities and see that these facilities
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: are broken and we are not getting the soon we need.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: All are these people releasing us from our parole. We
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: have been laid parole over a year ago and were
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: still here. Some people that made eighteen months ago and
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: they're still here. They have halfway haulers and all of
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: these cities who are afford to capacity for animates are
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: being held in these facilities after making paroles, ain't completing
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the FR six program and cannot be released because halfway
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: houses a whole to capacity. But the State of Texans
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: are not doing anything to try to twelve fathers issues,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to try to fix the system. The people don't have
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: for me that long to be able to get out
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: of prison.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna put a challenge child, since this is
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: what this is what's needed, so and we know what's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: going on, So I'm gonna challenge my brown people. I'm
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: gonna challenge my black and brown people that got the funds,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that got the resources, they got to know how to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: come together, y'all. It's time to come together. If we
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: know we need halfway houses, then why are we not
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: building halfway houses? Why are we not raising enough halfway
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: houses so that our family members, our brothers, our sisters
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: can come home from prison, and come home from prison
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and get back into the world and be projective citizens.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: We hear the need. So if we hear the need,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: then while we are not meeting the need as black
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and brown people, these are our people that are in need.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: So why are we not standing up and why are
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: we not developing this in our community if we know
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that there's a need. So, Texas, I'm calling on you
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to stand up, the citizens of Texas, my brown and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: black people. I need you to step up and stand up.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: If you have the resources, if you have to know how,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: then I need you to come together and I need
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you to get on this. We need halfway houses to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all black and brown people so that they can come
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out of prison, so they can transition, so they don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: have to be eighteen months over their release date. Why
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: because it's doing nothing but fattening the pockets of Texas,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Because it ain't doing nothing but putting money in their pocket.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Because we know it's all about a dollar. Everybody know
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: what it's all about. We know the prison system was
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: never designed for us, never will be designed for us.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And until we stand up and do something about it,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: we're still gonna continue to hear these stories. It's not
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: gonna change.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, ma'am. You know that's good to be
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: pushing that to the mistead on my Allen to get
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: her involved with this man, because her and a lot
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: of other statement pretendants need to know what's going on,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: they need to come and see for themselves, and that
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: they need to contact the parole board and have them
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to do better by making sure that these people have
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: a release day immediately upon their release of completion of
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the program. They got one guy here, he's in two
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: programs by a parole board M five three and M
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: five six, so they double bill and getting money from
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: him from M five six and money from him from
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: HELP five three. This is not right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I got your co hosts, got your co hosts
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: on co hosts on stops because she just tagged Alman Allen,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So we got Alman Allen tagged in this post. So
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: This subject, You know this one is very close to
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: my heart. And we're not playing about our men of
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: color over.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: There in Texas.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Are all over the world.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: You know, for Africa, thirteen percent of the Proformation, we
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: have thirty seven percent.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Of our color.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Men women aren't in prison. Being that Texas is the
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: number one state.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That house.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: All of them. H is the highest country that condicts
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: men and women of color wrongfully. You don't have to.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Statistics.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I gotta do is google. You can you google Texas.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: You could google the corruption in Texas. You google Texas
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: judicial system. You google it and it's gonna give you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the the god honest truth and you can see it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It's it's nothing that nobody's making up. This is something
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that has happened. And then everybody running the Texas, everybody
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: run the Texas for everybody was running Texas for a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: long time, just running the Texas. And then what was
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: happening all our people getting locked up, all our back
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and around people getting locked up and in prison.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Ever before.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Every Yeah, they leave the country.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: They are in the top five and execution, so they
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: don't care.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: You.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You got you got governor hot wheels that don't care nothing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Heat so far up. Trump's behind. That's that's all he
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: can do. Worrying about providing providing some beds for immigrants.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: He want to provide beds to house ice people. But
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you don't want to try to help get these people
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out of prison because he know what it's about. It's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: all about money. All you got to do is follow
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the money trail. You follow the money trail. You follow
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you want to find out why those people are not
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: going home. You find out about the people that's managing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: that that that facility over there, because it's not it's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not TDC Jack. They have other people. They have third
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: party people that are coming in, contractors that are coming
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in and running these facilities. So if you want to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: know why these prisoners are not going home, because it's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: all about the dollar. It's all about the dollar. TDC
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the TDCJ don't want they hands in it, so they
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: contracted to somebody else. But I can guarantee you that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: they already got their money's out of it. So they've
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: probably already pocketed theirs. So now they don't even get
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You can tell because if you look at the facility
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and what was going on in the facility, it's too
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: much was going on over there. These people had one toilet,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: one shower for fifty eight people. You flush the toilet
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and feces was coming up running all over the floor.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: That is unhumane. You don't even animals should even be
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: treated like that. A lot of us in America treat
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: our animals better than we treat those people that are incarcerated.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Because'm gonna tell you, Angel back down, my mama baby,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: my mama baby, my baby. That baby is fall and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: gets so her cage ain't dirty. Yeah, she gets she
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: gets fed and when she barked, she get to go
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: out and it ain't on unsanitary stuff. So we can
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: treat we can treat animals by like like royalty, then
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: why can't we treat our humans like like like they
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: are humans and not like animals. That's how we ask it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: And to give them the right the right tools and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the right things that they can have to transition back
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: into this world. You know, all they asked for a chance.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of you guys that are out
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: here on the outside, if if the truth be told,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys need to be behind the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: prison wall. But you didn't get taught. Yes, ma'am.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Well, here's a guy who's completed at the program. His
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: name is Holliday. He's a good friend of missus Shanetta.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about it, and he would like to speak
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: and say to tell y'all that he completed the program
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: and tell y'all what his problem is and he can't
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: get out of prison. Holiday. Hello, I just comp there's
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: third of people who the League has already complete the
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: program and we still sit here and holding up dead space.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: So people in the hot here and the team, I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: mean the clavifications brothers say they saying that they got
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: phases to go through and that's full come, you know
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. They just try. I got us sitting
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: over here holding their spaces. I'm sitting wait for my paperwork.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I already didn't sent through on eating your saying successful fleeting,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: but they fail or still center state. They wait like
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: a month or two before we get a date. And
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: it's hard for me to get a date because I'm
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: stilling a suck on the league as you insider, not
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: in my release unit. We're gonna give relief on which
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: says to paying Lenskes State jail. So I'm trying to
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: figure out why it's so long for me to sit
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: ahead and wait on the date.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't understand. I don't understand. Okay, So do
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they not have a program at the facility that you're
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: supposed to be released from.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: They got more.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Home, so why didn't they send you to the facility
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to be released from to complete your
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: program so that you want to have to go through that,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: so that you will already be at your facility and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: once you complete the program they can go on and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: transition you out. See that's the issue that I have.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And that's what I've been telling from the beginning, every
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: time I write them, that's what I tell them. You know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: this is something that needs to be taken care of.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: When y'all come in doing classification and you wouldn't have
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: these issues like that's something that leadership need to address.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That's that's a leadership issue and that should be addressed
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: knowing classic classification. Just and I say it again, just
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: like we have EPs for the kids in school, epis
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff to track these kids that have
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: issues in school to make sure that they graduate and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: make sure that they're able to fulfill the needs to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do to graduate. That's the same
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: thing that the prison system need. Ain't nothing different. We're
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: trying to get them through through real abilitation. So we
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: need steps to getting them through realbilitation. It's not going
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to change if you if you put these these these
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: things in place, they worked if you work them. But see,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: people don't want to do their jobs, and we've seen
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that over and over inside of t d c J.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They don't want to do their jobs. So this is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: what's happening, and then they brush it off, and they
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: brush it off, and then they put it out because
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I can guarantee you what's gonna happen is they're gonna
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: blame They're gonna blame the the the company that did y'all,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that did y'all program. They're gonna be the reason why
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: y'all was held up and all that, and it's gonna
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: go back and forth, and they're gonna keep putting the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: blame back and forth because that's what they do. T
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: d CJ is known for that. But I've given them
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: an outlet. I've given them. I just told I went
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: through my master's program, my bachelor's program writing on t
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: d c J. Their their policies, their procedures, and how
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: they operate. That is what I and I managed to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to to grab a coom soon lighted and and and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: this student of distincsion on honor. So I must have
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: did something right. So I'm just telling TDCJ, and I'm
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: telling them again if you need somebody to sit down
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: with you and willing to walk with you through this
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: so that we can better serve the inmates, so that
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: they can be better prepared and productive citizens when they
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: come back out, so that this don't be a reviving door.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And and see that's something that they are not doing
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that they are designed for this to be a resolving Zoe.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: They want you to keep coming back and they want
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to make it hard for you to get out. That's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that's that that whole that's the whole agenda. And when
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: we realize that we, hey, family members, need to get involved.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, this is the problem I'm having right now.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: But I'm trying to get hip on this center. I
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: can get transferred into my pickle, you know, which is
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: the paying mens to stay jail. Because if I feel
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: like I can get transferred to my junity, I feel
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: like that my least shad step that it'll come quot
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: than it is. Sitting on that the media is you're
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: still in the program, already completed it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: So do they not know? Do they not know you're
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: supposed to be at that unit?
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Nah, they don't, They don't. They're not supposed to be here.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: They just feel like he was.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Saying, so if so, if they so? If they okay,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if if we if we
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: contact them and ask them for a transfer? What what
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: would make them give you a transfer over making them
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: do their job? Because if they know you completed this
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: program and that you're not supposed to be at that facility,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to be at this other facility that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: we're asking for a transfer for, then what's the make
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: them give you a chanswer? That's what I'm trying to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: figure out. What's gonna make these people do do other
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: than their job? Because their job you're telling us that
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you're completed. So if you're completed, then why don't they
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: just send you where you're supposed to go.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what we're trying to That's what I'm trying
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: to get somebody to find out for whenever they gotta
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: contact or the RPD cofidis and let them know while
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: we got to get make sitting in this program over there,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: that's that's that's that's that's that's a successfully completed and
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: they've been wait a while. We can't get them until
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: they go home, you know, instead of sitting nowhere hold
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: enough bedspace for somebody else. It's trying to get get
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: the program into the program. You got peoples getting in
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: the program to a three months late and then y'all
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: said that they two or three months late. So it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a then you gotta wait to complete. So you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's the system they got going on.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna ask for somebody to hear me. Get
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: to my, to my, to my, you know, don't get
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: released released from.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So he's putting in the plague out. So can you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: tell the people who you are and how they can help,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: because I'm gonna be honest. I have written a couple
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: of letters. Well, I have written a couple of letters. Well,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to call back, but I have written
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of letters. I have addressed this. We have
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: even looked into the management company that is over there
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: running this particular program at t DC Jack and we
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: see the issues that are going on over there. And
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and just like that, just like we say, we follow
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the money trail, Shannette, we followed the money trail. Then
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: what what what? So, y'all, Shannette is Shannette is one
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of the hosts. She is actually the host of Let's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Talk About It. She and Cornell or Cole, they are
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: co hosts. Cornell is the guy that y'all heard first
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: that then He is Cheanette's co hosts and they're on
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: first and third Mondays, and this is what they talk about.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: This is the things that they bring to awareness. So,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: if you have a loved one that is incarcerated, no
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: matter where they are incarcerated. Channette has a husband that's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: incarcerated in Colorado, so she goes hard for Colorado. Cornell
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: is in Texas. We go hard for Texas. We have
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: individuals in Florida, Alabama, Georgia. If you have a loved
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: one and you would like to bring some awareness to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: their case, if they have been wrongfully or overly incarcerated
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and you need to bring some awareness to their case,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Channette is definitely someone that can get you on the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: show and we can get to talking about your case
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and get it out there. We do clips through the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: reels and we try to, you know, highlight it. We
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: run it in the magazine. We want people to know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you know, what is happening to our brown people all
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: over this world. It's not just happening here in the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: United States either, Because if you listen to doctor Chen,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Doctor Chen talks about it. She shares about it. Things
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: that are happening in the Virgin Outlands and even in Africa,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: different places. So know that this is a problem. This
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: is a problem, and it needs to be addressed. It
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: needs to be addressed, and we're gonna do what we
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: can to continue to bring light to it. I tell you, y'all,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: being a journalist and being on here and being you
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: gotta learn how to adapt. So today we truly had
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to adapt. I jumped on. My intentions was to come
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on and to talk about today's today's challenge. So since
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I have Channette on here with me, y'all to and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: they are calling back, so let me get them back on.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Today's challenge was to to share your your space, your
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: righting space, to share where you work and where you
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: make your magic happen. So y'all know that I am
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a visionary of the Crew podcast. I am the editor
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: in chief of Aspiring Authors magazine. So I this is
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: this is this is where I do most of my
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: work on the computers. This is what I do. So
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: y'all have had a chance to actually see me at work,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: to see me I'm doing a little bit of what
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I do, maneuvering. This is what I do. So I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: had to adjust. So I'm set up. I'm standing up
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: right now. I'm working on two computers and two and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: two phones, y'all. That's what I'm doing, working on two
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: off two computers and two phones because I want to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: make sure that I get this message out. I want
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to make sure that we're able to truly be a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: voice for those that do not have a voice. So
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Cornell and Holiday is back, and we wanted them to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: continue to address this issue that is currently taking place
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: inside of TDCJ. And that is is these individuals are
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: being paroled and once they are being paroled, they're just
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: being sick. They're they're sitting and they're waiting to be released.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: So you have Holiday who's at a unit. He's completed
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a program. I think he completed the program about four
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: days ago, and now he's waiting to go to the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: unit where he's supposed to be released from. So my
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: thing is, and like I said before, and I stand
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: on this, this should be taking place in classification when
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you assign them to a unit and see this is
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: what they do, so that they can keep moving them
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: around and keep putting them in different places and keep
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: doing this. Okay, if you know that they are gonna
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: be coming out at this unit and you're gonna be
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: moving them around, then you know that that's still their
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: exit unit. So you put that on as their exit unit.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: So when they're ready to go to their program to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: exit the TDCJ, the exit the system, then that's where
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: they go and that's where they work on their program.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: If it's a six month program, they go there, they
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: do they six months, and they go home. They're already there,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: so you can transition them out. That's that's that's simple, y'all.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: That is that is simple. But yet you see TDCJ
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: makes it hard. TDCJ makes it hard. There's a there's
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: a prison system in Texas. I mean in Tennessee, y'all.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: They found out how to do it and they are
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: doing it, and some more prison systems need to model
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that prison system. It can be done if it wants
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: to be done. But it's all about a dollar. It
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: used to be a million dollar industry, then it turned
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: into a billion dollar industry. But now y'all, it's a
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: trillion dollar industry and it's it's being it's being funded
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and off the backs of our brown people. Because if
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you look at the percentage of people that are inside
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: these prison systems. They look like us. They look like us,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and they're getting younger and younger, y'all, they're getting younger
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and younger. And with the new administration in if if
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: if they feel like our babies can go to work, work,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: they can go hold a job, and they can work
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: at seven, then guess what they're gonna start doing with
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: these laws. These laws are gonna gonna start dropping them
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: down to if they feel like your baby can work
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and hold a job. Because your current president, your current
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: administration shipping everybody off, you don't shift, He trying to
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: get everybody out of here, trying to get everybody out
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of here so he can put your babies to work.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So put your babies to work, y'all. If you don't know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you better wake up. Because the child labor law, where
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it used to be eighteen, y'all, is no longer eighteen, y'all.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's seven. So your babies can go to work at seven.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: So guess what. You know why they messing with the
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: educational system. You know why they are disrupting the educational
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: system because now they say, well, if they don't want
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: to send them the school, they don't want you to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: send them a school, and they know a lot of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: us are not wanting to send them with the things
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: that they're doing, so they say, okay, they're gona homeschool.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: So since they want to send them, they don't want
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to send them to school, then they're gonna make them
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: go to work. So now you're gonna have seven and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: eight year olds going to work because y'all know what
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: they did back in the day. A lot of our
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: parents and our grandparents, y'all, they had to quit school.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: A lot of them only went up to the eighth grade.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: A lot of them only went up to the fifth
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: grade because they went to work. But y'all, look at
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the current administration, look at what's happening. Look what's going on,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: And y'all got to get out here and be productive
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: in your community. Know what's going on. Take advantage of
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: the right to vote locally, like you need to go
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and be a part of your local government, because your
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: local government is determined who gets into that national seat, y'all.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: It all starts local, So you got to start being
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a part of that vote. So coming up next year,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: y'all vote, people find this. You gotta be ready to vote.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: You can't wait to it the four year vote, that's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: not the only one that coch this. The two year
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: votes are the ones that really matter because it's your local,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: your local. So y'all get on it and be a
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: part of your business. Get on your business and be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a part of your community. Y'all, we matter, our voice matter,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and we need to be heard. So we can't keep
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: sitting and just watching because nobody has your best interest.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: You got to have your own best interests, So get
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: up and do something. So, y'all, what what do y'all
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: want to leave with the people before we close this
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: call lot today? What what do y'all want the people
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to know? How? How would you like for someone to
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: help mister Holiday.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I want this. I want to help me be a
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: pace in the hospital for these people, these people. Where
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: are you paying our baby? We need somebody to step up.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: That's all the way something gonna get done, and I
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: will be still sitting here. We got those that sitting there.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Let me in trouble once trying to go home to
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: your little want or ain't nobody saying nothing.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Right? But sheett want to say something to Channette.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: I want you to okay, I want to address you,
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: said you're gonna be transferred.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: But I just looked it up on their ways, right,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: is that if they transfer you.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: Another unit, that's gonna say that's gonna be it's gonna
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: take them over to get you out of there. It's
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: gonna change your parole day. I'm looking at that.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Right now, that they transferred me to another un it's
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: gonna change my parole day.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: She just she said, she said, she just looked up
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: on the computer and she said, if they transfer you,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: it's going to change your parole date. So are you
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: really wanting people to reach out about transferring? Are you
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: just wanting people to reach out about getting you home?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Because if they transfer you shouldnet said that it's going
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to change your parole day, and you might want to
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: you you might want to check on that before we
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: start telling people to ask for your transfer, because if
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: it's gonna affect your parole date, I'm sure you don't
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: want that, so you might want to check on that first.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: No, that's what I want, Okay, that's what I want
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: to release.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So continue. I mean, we're we're doing what we can
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to make these people do what they're supposed to do
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: over there at that facility. Go a hand your NA,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: go hands your na.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: You know I want, but.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: We have to have the support of your loved ones
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: standing with.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Us as so much.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Your loved ones need.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: To stand along with us to show support.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: That they gonna be there to you know, like in California,
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: we had to send in letters to say that we
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: was gonna if my cousin needed support or needed someone
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: to talk to, that we're gonna be there for them.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: So we need the support of you guys' family to
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: stand with us. Our voice can only go so far,
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: but if we had everybody speaking on you guys, behalve,
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: it'd be better, and especially if it's coming.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: From a loved one, right, So we need family members
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to get involved as well. We need family members to
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: get involved. If your family members can want want to
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: contact us and we can work out a plan of action,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that that's fine. But family needs to get involved because
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: they need to see that the family is supportant, that
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: they have family support so that they can they can
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: move forward. They want to see the family support.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: I ain't got no problem with that at our way
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: will contact.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Y'all at any time, okay, by family.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I won't have my family contact y'all.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: To date.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: On the first thing in the morning, will call y'all
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: and where y'all can talk and they appreciate what's going
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: on around the system here, not gainst meet everybody in.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: They got a little walk because it's going to be
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: stressful to all of us. So we're gonna connect y'all today.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: But I know that because my.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: Husband wrongfully for it's gonna be sixteen years in July.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: And he's fighting his system.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Right, I'm the only one that's.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Using my voice to stand cause.
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna continuously do that, right, and I put
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: it out due to family members all the time. Don't
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: forget about your loved ones that's behind the wall, regardless
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: of what they do, regardless of what they do. Tell
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: of these shenanigans, what if they aren't there using drugs. No, yeah,
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: we're gonna we're gonna put a cap on that. We're
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: gonna just stop. We're gonna cut that right there, no
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: money going in. We're gonna stop that right now. But
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: sending them pictures and.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Cards and loves and let them know that we're there. Yes,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: I support that. I hear in my husband's voice.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: When he's having a bad day, when he'd be like,
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I could do, but you.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Better down all this time. You can do it right.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: So I know it's got striple mixed holiday, But where
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: is your faith? Where is your faith?
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: That you got the hold on to our faith?
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: That's all we got into our faith and tell till
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: somebody finally hear our voice. They tell them representatives finally
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: saying okay, you guys, come on down here to the
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: to the floor and talk to us about what's going
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: on in ex prison system.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Right, got the hold on to our faith. That's it.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: We can't we gotta hold on and a lot of
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: them they have been wrongfully overly incarcerated, and you know,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: it's getting frustrated, it's getting hard, it's getting hard, and
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: it seemed like it's getting worse and worse instead of
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: it getting better. You would think that systems would get
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: better over time, especially when you are acknowledging and addressing
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: these things. You know, it's not like we don't know
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: what's going on. We are bringing it to life. We
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: have been bringing it to life. I don't know what
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: was going on before I stepped into the picture, but
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: for the last three and a half years, I know
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: what I've been doing. I know who I've been writing,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I know who I've been staying before, and I know
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the changes that I have been seeing. I will not quit.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I won't give up. I won't turn away because I
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: see what is happening, you know, if it don't always
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: happen in our time and when we want it to happen.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: But they're moving, you know. And I can say that
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: they're moving because as much as I complained and much
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: as I did did a lot of stuff, they were
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: slow about doing stuff Over at the mcconnley unit, at
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: the Conley unit at Bido, and a lot of the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: other units that I have been working with, they have
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: been slow about doing stuff. But these people realize now
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: that I'm not playing, that I'm not gonna back down,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna stop, that I'm gonna continue, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: that I am going to allow these people to have
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: a voice. I do blogs, I run magazine, ass I
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: put this stuff out here. So if you don't want
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: the truth to come forth, don't let them come in
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: my past, because if they come in my past, I'm
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: gonna put it out here in emails, I'm gonna put
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: it out here in the magazine. I'm gonna put it
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: out here in this podcast. I'm gonna put it out
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: here because the people need to know. The people need
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: to know how their dollars are being spent, just like
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: over there in San Antonio. Over there, what is that
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: no San Antonio food truck. Food Bank was donating food
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to I think it was the mcconnay unit, one of
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: those units over there, And there was an issue where
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: all of the guards and the inmates that we're working
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, we're getting privy to the food. They
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: was getting privileged. They was some of the inmates were
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: taking foods home. They was taking the food home and
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: not giving it to the inmates, and they was giving
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: the inmates the stuff that was going bad and the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: stuff that they had gone pick over. And that was
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: not what the food bank had said. So I contacted
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the food bank and I asked, you know, what was
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: their policy and perduser with that and I explained to
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: them and I told them, See, people don't want you
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: to start talking about the stakeholders. They don't want you
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: to talk about the constituents. They don't want you to
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: talk about the people that they are supposed to be serving.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: And when you start mentioning those names, they get to moving,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: they get to talking about action, and that's what you
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: gotta do. You gotta let these people know that you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: are not playing with them, and if they don't want
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: to do their job, they can be replaced because we vote,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: we vote, and we get these people out of there
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: if they're not doing their jobs. So now all you
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: gotta do is go and write somebody. You got a
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: loved one, write them about what's going on here, what's
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: going on in the state of Texas. It don't take
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a whole lot, take take five minutes, ten minutes, and
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: just write a letter. Let people know what is going on,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: because we can talk until we blue in the face,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: and I can keep doing and we gonna keep It's
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, if you follow me and
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: you come on these platforms and you hear you probably saying, oh,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: y'all are saying the same thing over and over, it
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: sounds like a repeated record, and it's gonna continue to
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: sound like that until you do something about it. So
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: my question to the people people are Texas, what are
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: you doing to help with the reform the parole and
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the judicial system. And everything that is going on in
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: the state of Texas that is affecting your people. What
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: are y'all doing? Are y'all getting up and voting? I
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: can't say y'all even voting because there's precincts that that
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: only having six and ten percent turn out. How when
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: you are you have a population of thirty and forty
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: thousand high is only six percent turning out? That means
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: ain't nobody going to vote. So if you're not voting,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: then you were a part of the thirty six percent
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: that did not vote. And Donald Trump only won by
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: thirty one percent of the votes, So more did not
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: vote than allowed this man to win. So you right now,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: and we're not he not the real He not the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: real problem because this has been going on. We're not
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: blaming him for the prison system problem. But I just
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: had to throw him in about the problems. So now
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: what's going on now? But as far as the prison system,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: this has been going on, y'all, and it was never
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: designed for us. If you go back and you understand
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: why the prison system was set up, then you know
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: it was not designed for us. And what it was
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: designed for was designed to keep slaves in prison. If
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: they ran away. So guess what now, sure what they're doing? Okay,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: whatever it.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: Is, you are absolutely that they have now printed us
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: out to the Management Training Corporation, which is a private facilities. Okay,
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: and now these people are getting the check off of us.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: The parole board is flooding. The Parole Board is flooding
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: the Management Training Corporation, which is an AA management program
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: or Alcoholic anous program with FIP six inmates thousands of files,
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: six inmates a day are getting six parole programs. But
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: these people are holding these people constantly up to eighteen
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: nineteen to two years after being approved for the borough
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: in this Management Training Corporation. So now my question now
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: is to ask anybody who's in the state of Texas
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: to contact the director of the Training Management Corporation and
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: find out why it is that the themIn S Felty
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: unit who is housing OP six inmates to still being
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: housed in prison.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: You know why, y'all asking why? We ain't got to
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: ask why we know why? Because they getting paid in
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: every bed that's feeled, they getting paid for that bad
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: so when the bed is empty, they're not getting paid.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: So they're trying to make sure that you said, some
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: people went out, So they got to make sure they
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: got people to feel those beds before they let any more.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: So they not letting none of y'all go no more.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: They're not letting nobody else go until they got people
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that's coming in to fill up those beds. That's what
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: they're doing. You want to know, follow the paper trail.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Can telling me y'all follow the paper trail.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: It's not rocket science. It is not rocket science. We
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: making it seem like it's so hard day. That's how
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: these people get paid. Cornell. You got to have a rochester.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: You got to have a roster. You got to be
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: able to track it because when they get ready to
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: file their income tax, when they get ready to fire
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: anybody that do taxes, anybody that do records, anybody that
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: know no, you got to be accountable. So they got
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: to have their records. So they got to have your
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: sign in sheets. I know that because I worked for
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: a food service program, and you know what they said.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: They said anybody under eighteen could eat at these places.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: So it was up to us as the facility coordinators
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and stuff to track who came through the program. So
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: we had to literally check out everybody that came through there.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: So people got to keep up with this, They got
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to keep up with the records. That's what's going on.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: That's why y'all gotta sign in, and it's got to
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: be in your signature, it's got to be in your name,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: so they want to make sure that it's actually somebody
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: and it's not being forged. So that's why they have
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: y'all sign in because these people are getting paid. They're
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: getting paid for every signature on that paper, for every
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: day that you go there. So know that ain't nothing new.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Don't take it. Don't take a rocket scientist to figure
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: it out. It's all about the money when you operating
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: a trillion dollar industry. That is a trillion dollar industry.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: And not to mention the underhanded stuff that's going on.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: We talk about the drugs that flow through the prison system.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: We all know what happened down in Texas and how
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: that warden was running drugs through that prison system. They
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: do it all the time. They doing it all the
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: time because these inmates do not get to go out
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: and stand on the corner and solicit to drugs. So
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: how is it getting in there? These contractors and these
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: correction officers. It just point blank and simple. When they
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: deal with that, then they can address that issue. They
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to deal with it because they know that
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: that's how these people are making money. They don't want
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to pay They don't want to pay the correction officers
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: what they should be paid. So this is how these
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: people make money. You talk about we talk about these
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: these twenty dollars phones that they go to the General
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Dollar and the Family Dollar and all these stores and
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: pay twenty dollars from and then they will sneak them
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: into the jails and give them to inmates, and they
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: charge inmates of thousand and fifteen hundred, three thousand, five hundred.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: That's how they make their money.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: We know that.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: We know that, and that's why they are not addressing
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: this issue. And why because it's affecting too many of
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: us black people, black and brown people. As long as
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: it's affecting the black and brown people, they do not care.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: And loans is affecting us in a negative way. So now,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: what are we as black and brown people, What are
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: we doing? What are we doing to address the issues
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: within the prison system. I hear a lot of these
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: podcasts I'm one of them. But what are we doing?
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Are we contacting these people? Are we contacting the representatives?
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Are we making a stand? I've pretty much made my
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: stand and going forth with it, so Texas you'll see me.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, ma'am, thank you pretty much. Man for all
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: the y'all do is advocating on our behalf. Because I
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: have been here with y'all and I have seen the work,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: the job done. I've seen Plock questioning the work the
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: job done. Being a boyce, you are mission that Johnson
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: of let's talk about it. I'm a co host and
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: I can tell you y'all are very passionate about what
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: y'all do, and we'll appreciate y'all and we can check
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: y'all for everything that y'all doing. We saw our for
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: ourselves here that these people did come to this, and
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: that's because y'all advocated for them to come to see
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: what the conditions are. And yes, they did come. Now
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: over forty of them came. We've started for ourselves and
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: they have been here for the past two or three
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: weeks constantly in the demean Gaars state there, fella unit,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: because everything that you said you posted this in your
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: magazine as amazing. I'm a fine off to magazine. Everything
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: that you say, you do, post it in your magazine
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: so people can go read it. It's not just us
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: making this stuff up. You actually pushed the peel for
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: these people to come and they can't. So we thank
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: y'all very much man for what y'all do. So now
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: this Training Management Corporation, we're asking for the public to
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: compact the email. Whenever you have the email to tell
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: them people they need to come themselves and see what's
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: going on right here at the demean Gaar State their
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: felony facility and find out how they're going to get
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: these people out of here and get these people to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: set their learn along to the US that they need
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: to go to and all of these people be released
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: because they got too many people in here waiting to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: go home and they're getting frustrated and losing their air
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: fives just because they cannot be released, and that's not right.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: These people are making billions of dollars off us a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: year and they don't want to let us go. You
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: got county jails fill up to the capacity, ma'am, waiting
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: to come to TDC, so hollering it that the public
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: is waiting to pay attaxes for people to come from
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: the county jail to TDC and TDC non beneath nobody.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: This is too much.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Want to say something that needs to be fixed.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Just ma'am, oh her, now you just said something.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: My little mind just gonna win blank real because I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: was on the internet googling something. My my heart really
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: goes out to to the you guys had completed the program,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: you know, I just looked on their their website and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: it does it says that you cannot they cannot hold you.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: Has your release date?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: There's a detainer.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: And see that's the thing, shouldn't That's the thing they
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: they they completed the program, but they don't give they
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: have not given them a release date.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: That's the thing.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: They when they send them to the program, they they
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: their release date is whatever the program time is. Upon completion,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: they'll say six months. Go ahead, corn down, tell.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: Them it's upon competition. And you're absolutely right, miss, missmis Smith.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: It's upon completion now, and we have completed the program.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: But you guys are being held for five, six, seven
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: months after completion. Now they don't have to them. You're
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: absolutely right to miss to be held out.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: But what I was trying to explain, and what I
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: was trying to explain is they don't have release dates FETTE,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: so that they they that's how they get around. That's
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: that's that that's how they get to do. What they're
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: doing is because they're not putting a release date in
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: the system. They're putting it continguent to them completing the program.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: So they have to complete the program and then they'll
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: give them a release date. So we don't know when
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: they will get a release date even after they complete
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the program. So again I go back to it should
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: be done in classification. When they come in, they should
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: know every step of their process along the process. That
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: don't care where where it is facilitated at. But the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: process should still be the process. You can send them
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: to whatever facility you want to, but the process should
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: always be that process.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: Now, now.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: This is the reason why they not given after they
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: program and they're not.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Fust Yeah, that's what they want, they won't them if
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: so now they know that they completed this program, they
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: know they ready to go, they know they ready, so
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: now they it's just about and and I said that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: from the conditions of this facility. The condition of that
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: facility was to break these people. Instead of helping these
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: people transition back into the world and providing them with
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: resources to help them transition back into the world, that
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: facility over there was designed to break them because you're
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: talking about living in third world conditions. You had you
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: had one You know that when you flush it it
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: it brings stuff up out the flow, and it was
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: flooding the flow. Everything was unhumane. You making you, you
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: you given you. Putting somebody in this situation that's getting
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: ready to come back home, you're not preparing them to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: transition to the real world. But you got facilities that
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: have big seventy two inch TVs mounted on their walls.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: But you're not showing these people how to use the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: current electronics. Because remind you, some of these people been
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: incarcerated for twenty thirty forty years, so you've taken most
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: of most of their youth away from them. So the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: world has evolved. You talk about technology, Technology has evolved
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: since these people been in prison. A lot of these
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: people don't know how to use no no, no cell phone.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Thank god, they know how to use tablets because they
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: start giving them tablets within the prison system. But they
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: don't know how to use cell phones, They don't know
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: how to use a lot of this technology. So why
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: are you not teaching them in the transition phase of
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: the programs how to transition and be a part of
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: the world so that they don't come back, Because that's
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: not what they want. They want you to be a
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: revolving thought. Because they figured out how they can make millions,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: They've figured out how they can make treatings. Because y'all,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: there's companies and a lot of us support these companies
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: that are making money off of these people in prison.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: McDonald's you got, and not only that, it's a whole
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: nother store and show. And then we ain't gonna get
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: into it today, but we can go over to Alabama
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: and we can talk about how these people was transporting
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: inmates to work real jobs beside real beside real workers
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: and paying them nothing. But then they were getting paid
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: as if they was workers, but they were not getting
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: the money. The actual prison was getting the money. Yeah,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: it's an actual big time lossuit in Alabama. And not
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: only that, they was letting inmates drive other inmates like
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: they was letting these people go out like they was
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: real Yeah, we have a case right down an inmate
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: was driving another inmate lost control of the car and
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: inmates got hurt. Yeah, this is what's going on, and
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: it's going on in the state of Alabama. That's happening
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: in Alabama. So questions, this is what's happening all over
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: the United States, y'all. It's not just the isolated incident
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: that's happening in Texas. Y'ad. This is happening, and why
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: is this happening to our people? This is happening to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: our people because why they want to keep us down,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: They want to keep us in bundance. But y'all, we
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: gotta come together, we gotta stand together, and we got
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: to fight against this judicial system. So if you're in
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: the state of Texas, y'all, we're asking you to stand up,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: speak out, and to help these people that are being
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: overly incarcerated. Once they have completed these programs, transition these
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: people back into the real world so that they could
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: be productive cisms. So you're gonna have to keep footing
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: this bill because we're paying our taxpayer dollars are going
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: to the housing of these inmates. And that is one
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: of the reasons why I stay on it like that,
• 1:07:51
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• 1:07:51
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• 1:08:17
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