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ROR 182: They need your help · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and.
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  Speaker 2: If the present Department of Correction read an in state
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  Speaker 2: prison to accept this, all press zero. This is Randall
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  Speaker 2: bab Aka read on you, Randy. I'm currently serving one thousand,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fourteen years for capital murder and on
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  Speaker 2: robbery now and finally at a level three fucking air
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  Speaker 2: correctional center. So always throw from where I grew up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get started with the podcast, all right, Uh everybody,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh been a while since y'all heard from me.
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  Speaker 2: Apologize for that. You know, we're we're trying to expand
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  Speaker 2: you know, add some new voices, add some new content
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But uh, this one, this is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be all me today, and uh, I'm sorry for your loss.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the thing. I just we just came
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  Speaker 1: off lockdown.
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  Speaker 2: I'll definitely do an episode on that in a week
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  Speaker 2: or two because it's definitely worth talking about that lockdown
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  Speaker 2: because they had the Virginia State Police in here doing it.
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  Speaker 2: But when I come off lock I was able to
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  Speaker 2: finally sink my tablet is send some emails, get some
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  Speaker 2: emails and whatnot. And uh, I got a really really
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  Speaker 2: good one uh from an advocate friend of mine UH
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  Speaker 2: named Kevin Geenas he's the creator of prison Talks on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: So if you don't know who he is here, you
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  Speaker 2: haven't you know, seen his stuff for what he's doing,
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  Speaker 2: by all means, please go check him out.
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  Speaker 1: I know he would appreciate it. But this is the email.
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  Speaker 2: And it says for immediate release. Coalition of prison reform advocates,
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  Speaker 2: correctional officers and families unite to demand Governor Spamburger fire
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  Speaker 2: Virginia doc leaders Chadwick Dottson, David Robinson, Dvin McCoy, and
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  Speaker 2: David Anderson. This is this next part is an excerpt
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  Speaker 2: from an article written in UH. I'm assuming it's to
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  Speaker 2: Richmond Thoms Dispatch. All it says is just Richmond, Virginia
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  Speaker 2: in a stunning show of unity. Both correctional officers and
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  Speaker 2: incarcerated people, two groups rarely on the same side of
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  Speaker 2: the barbed wir have joined forces to the man that
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  Speaker 2: Governor Abigail Spamberger immediately terminate Virginia Department of Corrections Director
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  Speaker 2: Chavick dots In, Chief of Corrections Operations, David Robinson, and
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  Speaker 2: Wise County Wardens Kelvin McCoy and David Anderson. The unprecedented
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  Speaker 2: dual petitions waunted, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: About that They're calling for Gateberg.
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  Speaker 2: The unprecedented dual petitions, won last by CEOs themselves and
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  Speaker 2: another by prisoners in their families, paint a damning picture
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  Speaker 2: of a department collapsing under the weight of nepotism, cronyism, corruption,
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  Speaker 2: and cruelty. Both petitions describe a culture of fear and
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  Speaker 2: competence and unchecked abuse which has festered under Dotson and
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  Speaker 2: Robinson's leadership and been enforced on the ground by McCoy
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  Speaker 2: and Anderson. The prisoner's petition can be found at httpsy
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  Speaker 2: Colon slash slash, www, dot Change, dot Org, slash, p slash,
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  Speaker 2: demand Dash, the Dash Resignation Dash of Dash, Chadwick Dash,
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  Speaker 2: Dotson Dash, and Dash David Dash Robinson to God Almighty,
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  Speaker 2: as long as Hell and the correctional Officers. Petition is
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  Speaker 2: available at https colon forward slash forward slash www, dot Change,
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  Speaker 2: dot Org, forward slash, p forward slash, fire Dash, Dave Dash,
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  Speaker 2: Robinson Dash from Dash, Virginia Dash Department, Dash of Dash Corrections.
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  Speaker 2: This is not reformed, its regression set. A spokesperson for
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  Speaker 2: the coalition, Dotson and Robinson have turned Virginia's prisons into
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  Speaker 2: a nightmare of brutality and cover ups, and McCoy and
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  Speaker 2: Anderson have made Wise County the epicenter of it. They
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  Speaker 2: failed the incarcerated, failed to staff, and failed the commonwealth,
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  Speaker 2: a legacy of failure. Dobson, a retired Wise County judge
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  Speaker 2: with no background in corrections, was appointed as a political
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  Speaker 2: favor not because of marriage. His tenure has been marked
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  Speaker 2: by scandal after scandal, from rampant staff shortages and inmates
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  Speaker 2: suicides to documented cases of excessive force and inhumane conditions
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  Speaker 2: that read Onion and Waller's rich prisons. Robinson, his right
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  Speaker 2: hand man, has become synonymous with obstruction and denial, burying reports,
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  Speaker 2: silencing whistleblowers, and refusing to hold abusive officers.
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  Speaker 1: Accountable.
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  Speaker 2: Together, they have presided over a system that many described
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  Speaker 2: as a state sponsored human rights disaster. In the past
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  Speaker 2: two years alone, the Virginia doc has faced multiple lawsuits,
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  Speaker 2: federal investigations, and international outrage following a string of self
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  Speaker 2: emulations and suspicious inmate deaths. Among them was Aubrey McKay,
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  Speaker 2: whose death is widely believed to have resulted from correctional
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  Speaker 2: officer brutality. Yet Dotson and Robinson's only consistent response has
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  Speaker 2: been covered up and complicity cronyism and corruption in Wise County.
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  Speaker 2: Both Dodson and Robinson hailed from Wise County, the same
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  Speaker 2: region where the state's two most notorious supermac's prisons are located.
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  Speaker 2: Under their influence, Wardens Kelvin McCrory and David Anderson have
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  Speaker 2: been installed as enforces of a corrupt network that functions
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  Speaker 2: like a family business. Critics say positions and promotions are
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  Speaker 2: funneled to political allies and relatives, while grievance is misconduct
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  Speaker 2: and even criminal acts by officers go ignored. These four
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  Speaker 2: men represent the worst of the Old Guard, said one organizer. Dobson, Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: McCoy and Anderson have built a culture of cronyism, cruelty,
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  Speaker 2: and cover ups. Their network of nepotism is strangling the
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  Speaker 2: system and costing lives unlikely. Allies United for Justice that
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  Speaker 2: Prisoners and Officers Alight are calling for the same resignation.
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  Speaker 2: Speaks of volumes. The COEO petition describes Robinson as incompetent,
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  Speaker 2: while the prisoner petition accuses all four leaders of protecting
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  Speaker 2: abusers and destroying morale across the department. This coalition represents
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  Speaker 2: the unheard voices of both sides of the bars, said
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  Speaker 2: the coalitions joint statement. When the guards and the guarded
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  Speaker 2: agree that leadership has failed, it's not a management issue,
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  Speaker 2: it's a moral emergency. They called to Governor Spamburger. Advocates
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  Speaker 2: are demanding that Governor Spamburger intervene immediately to remove Dotson, Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: McCoy and Anderson and launch an independent inquiry into systemic
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  Speaker 2: abuse and corruption within Virginia Department of Corrections. Governor Spamburger
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  Speaker 2: must act now to restore trust, transparency, and humanity to
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  Speaker 2: Virginia's prisons. The statement concludes, every day these men remain
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  Speaker 2: in power, more lives are at risk. I could not
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  Speaker 2: agree with that email and those excerpts from newspaper reports
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  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. I couldn't agree with
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  Speaker 2: it more. I was at Red Onion longer than any
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  Speaker 2: other inmates. No one has done more time in those
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  Speaker 2: mountains than I have t once he filed. Years of
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  Speaker 2: my life I spent in those mountains. I've seen it all.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen all of it. I've seen the abuse. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen people get beaten. I've seen CEOs kill inmates and
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  Speaker 2: then cover it up with suicide. That's happened quite often.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen dudes get their asses beat while they're shackled
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  Speaker 2: and handcuffed. I've seen guys shackled and handcuffed and then
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  Speaker 2: have German shepherds and other attack dogs sick on these
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  Speaker 2: inmates while they're shackled and handcuff doing nothing. The fight's
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  Speaker 2: over with, it's done. I've seen a god get his
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  Speaker 2: calf ripped off. I've seen them sixties dogs with dan
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  Speaker 2: near an inch and a half canines, big dogs bite
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  Speaker 2: people in the face, bite them in the head. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't talk about a lot of things. The only
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  Speaker 2: reason I'm kind of opening up right now a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more than I have in the past. It's because
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  Speaker 2: I have faith. I have faith, and I have hope.
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  Speaker 2: And Governor Spamburger for Governor elect span Burger until January fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General elect J. Jones, I have faith. And some
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  Speaker 2: of these Democratic delegates that just won, I've seen a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, a lot of things I can't talk
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  Speaker 2: about even still, there are some things I've witnessed with
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  Speaker 2: my own two eyes that I will never speak of
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  Speaker 2: until I get out of prison, simply because the retaliation.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that God Governor elects Stanberger actually does something.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that she does fire these men, that she
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  Speaker 2: does strip it down to the foundation, tear it down
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  Speaker 2: and rebuild it. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in Virginia to make honest, legitimate.
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  Speaker 3: Change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is an opportunity to fix things.
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  Speaker 2: This is an opportunity to do some good. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: it all, every single man that was named, except for
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  Speaker 2: Chadwick Dowson. I know, I've been around him. Guys are
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  Speaker 2: setting themselves on fire just to get a two week vacation.
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  Speaker 2: They're willing to suffer excruciating.
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  Speaker 1: Agony like I don't know if you've ever been set
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  Speaker 1: on fire.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't like that. I've had a little small you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've had grease and stuff like that on me before,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And I can only imagine with setting yourself
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  Speaker 2: on fire, the curve, like the desperation that you have
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  Speaker 2: to be feeling, knowing what you're about to do to yourself,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you are about to scar yourself for life.
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  Speaker 2: Because let's face it, I've had freaking a form of
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  Speaker 2: bone cancer since twenty seventeen and it still hasn't even
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  Speaker 2: been properly biopsy yet. Hey, you know, damn goodwill. These
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  Speaker 2: people that are setting themselves on fire have not received
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  Speaker 2: proplematical care and treatment, so they're going to be living
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  Speaker 2: with this for the rest of their life.
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  Speaker 1: Look, please.
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  Speaker 2: Go to these petitions. I know it was a mouthful
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  Speaker 2: of me reading it off. I'm going to actually have
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  Speaker 2: my editor Michael put it up, write it out, type
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  Speaker 2: it up on my website red onion Randy dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Go there and go to these petitions and please sign
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  Speaker 2: these petitions. You can't sign the correctional officers one. Those
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  Speaker 2: are just for prison guards. But go to the inmate
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  Speaker 2: one and please just take the two or three minutes
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take to sign your name, the more
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  Speaker 2: people we can get to sign this petition and get
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  Speaker 2: it actually in front of Governor a Lex Vanberger when
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  Speaker 2: she takes office January fifteen, twenty twenty six, she might
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  Speaker 2: actually give us some relief. She might actually do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing by us. But we're not asking for you
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  Speaker 2: to just open the front gates and let every single
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  Speaker 2: one of us walk. We're not asking for this or that.
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  Speaker 2: We're just asking for some decent treatment. We're asking that
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  Speaker 2: you stop, that you stop the corporal punishment, that you
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  Speaker 2: stop the collective punishment. Because right now in them mountains,
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  Speaker 2: if they lock one person up, if there's a fist,
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  Speaker 2: just a regular normal run of the mill fist fight,
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  Speaker 2: there's no injuries. Maybe the worst you get is a
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  Speaker 2: busted lip or like a bloody nose or a black
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  Speaker 2: eye or something like that's the worst.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get from the fight.
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  Speaker 2: They'll lock the whole compound down and that padded the
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  Speaker 2: fight happened. They will lock them down for thirty days
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  Speaker 2: straight and they'll take their tablets from them. If something
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  Speaker 2: happens to where a CEO gets hit or for CEO
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  Speaker 2: just claims when they run in to go to break
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  Speaker 2: it up, and the CEOs claimed, oh, well, he caught
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  Speaker 2: me with an elbow and the jaw. They locked that
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  Speaker 2: whole pod down for ninety days. They take every inmate
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  Speaker 2: that had nothing to do with the fight. They take
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  Speaker 2: their tablets from them so they can't send emails, they
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  Speaker 2: can't get emails. They take their televisions from them so
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  Speaker 2: they can't watch nothing, and then they leave them locked
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  Speaker 2: in that sell for ninety days. If there's an actual
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  Speaker 2: weapon involved, you know, and some guys they got to
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  Speaker 2: use weapons, or you know, it's an image thing, it's
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  Speaker 2: a gangbanger thing, whatever the case may be, they're locked
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  Speaker 2: down a whole hell of a lot longer. They'll they'll
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  Speaker 2: take commissary from them, like they are using collective punishment
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  Speaker 2: in them mountains to punish over a thousand people for
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  Speaker 2: what one or two people do. And you wonder why
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  Speaker 2: guys are willing to set themselves so far. You're wondering
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  Speaker 2: why guys are willing to commit suicide because you would
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  Speaker 2: rather being dead than get punished. It to me, that
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  Speaker 2: is my number one pet peeve. I've said this before.
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  Speaker 2: Punishing me for something I had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: that right there. Pisses me off, angers me more than
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  Speaker 2: anything else in this world, because I have been punished
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  Speaker 2: time and time and time again for something I had
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with, even down here in the incentive
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  Speaker 2: prison I'm in right now. If somebody does something down
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  Speaker 2: there and they lock us down, I don't get my
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  Speaker 2: video visits with my wife, they counsel my video visits
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  Speaker 2: because they put the institution on lock. That happens nowhere
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  Speaker 2: else hell, even it red Onion and Waller's rich.
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  Speaker 1: If you get a.
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  Speaker 2: Video visit, they actually let you out to get your
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  Speaker 2: video visit. And up there they will kill you. They
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  Speaker 2: will whoop your ass and make you wish you was dead.
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  Speaker 2: They starve you, they abuse you, They mentally and emotionally
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  Speaker 2: assault you daily. But yet they'll still give you your
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  Speaker 2: video visiness. But in the incentive prison, you can't get
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  Speaker 2: a video visit.
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  Speaker 1: If we go on lock, you're on lock.
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  Speaker 2: So, Governor Alex Stamberger, I don't know if you'll ever
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  Speaker 2: hear this. I don't know if somebody on your team
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  Speaker 2: or in your family or what if you have one
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  Speaker 2: minute remaining, But if you do happen to somehow hear this,
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  Speaker 2: podcast this episode. Man, when you take office, do something. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not for a wholesale release of prisoners. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: forgiving us everything under the sun and moon. But ma'am,
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  Speaker 2: if you want us to change, if you want us
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  Speaker 2: to rehabilitate, if you want us to read you in society,
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  Speaker 2: it starts with you. You're gonna have to fix that broken
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  Speaker 2: system in Richmond. You have no choice money.
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  Speaker 1: Do the right thing, not what's easy. Do the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: Please sign those petitious people, please help us out stand
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  Speaker 2: up for us. Thank you. I appreciate you listening because
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  Speaker 2: this right here means something to me. I'm risking myself
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  Speaker 2: here getting kicked off of this and send in prison
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