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ROR 157: Is this the end of Red Onion Randy? · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if they
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  Speaker 1: the present a Department of Correction read an in state
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  Speaker 1: present to accept this all crass zero. This is Randall
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  Speaker 1: Bob currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: for capital murder on Roberts, currently being housed at Key
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  Speaker 1: Mount Correctional Center.
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  Speaker 2: In Oakwood, Virginia, US A.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast Read On Your Randy. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you have George listening to you today. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any questions or comments or want to leave a message
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, I've got a voicemail line. That number is
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  Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five suits four one nine three two.
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  Speaker 1: You can also visit my website which is new and
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  Speaker 1: improved and got different features and whatnot at www dot
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  Speaker 1: red on Randy dot com.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you do.
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  Speaker 1: That gets started with the podcast today, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give you an update on what's going on with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask for help. Most of my
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  Speaker 1: friends are overseas. You know, a lot of the people
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  Speaker 1: that I call, they either live in Canada, my wife
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  Speaker 1: lives in England, my buddy lives in Australia. My other
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  Speaker 1: buddy lives in Ireland. I've got a buddy that lives
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  Speaker 1: in Helsinki, Finland.
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  Speaker 2: That I you know, I call, you know, on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's that's what keeps me grounded. It's when
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  Speaker 1: he knows here gets.
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  Speaker 3: A little tough for me.
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  Speaker 2: I can call these.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, you know, I can. I can talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: I can talk to my wife. I can kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get it off my check a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so that it doesn't build up to the
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  Speaker 1: point where I snap out, explode and hurt somebody in
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  Speaker 1: wreck their life, not to mention wrecking my own. However,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: that after May of twenty twenty five, simply because Skype
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  Speaker 1: is no longer going to offer their services. They're transitioning
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  Speaker 1: into something called Microsoft Teams. Now. The way it's works,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, the way it works and the way it
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  Speaker 1: has worked, is that, for example, Paulie, when I call him,
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  Speaker 1: what he had to do originally was sign up on Skype.
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  Speaker 1: He pays them seven dollars a month to use their
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  Speaker 1: satellites and their services, and then he got a local
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  Speaker 1: Virginia phone number and then attach that to his current
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  Speaker 1: cell phone number. So whenever I call the Virginia number,
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  Speaker 1: his cell phone or his laptop rings he answers, we talk,
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  Speaker 1: I feel better about myself. That's usually the way that works.
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  Speaker 1: But now with freaking Skype transitioning to Microsoft Teams, they're
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  Speaker 1: no longer going to offer international calls, which means I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be able.
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  Speaker 2: To talk to my wife every day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to talk to my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to record episodes for the.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast anymore because.
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  Speaker 1: I record with my new editor, Michael, he I record
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  Speaker 1: with my old editor, Sir Paulie, or my old field producer,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the hell he's title is nowadays, even I'm starting
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  Speaker 1: to get confused by So I need help because anybody
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  Speaker 1: out there know of another service that provides international phone
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  Speaker 1: calls the same way that Skype currently does before they
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  Speaker 1: shut down in me, I don't know if any other
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  Speaker 1: platform that does it, you know. I've had somebody look
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  Speaker 1: at it. They can't find anything, you know, And I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta have my phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know, I have some friends in
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  Speaker 1: the US that I call and everything, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: have the capability nor the time to be able to
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  Speaker 1: help me record the podcast and do the things that
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  Speaker 1: I'm currently trying to do, you know, with the books.
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  Speaker 4: And and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Me no, pus, I just don't want to lose their friendship.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not willing to let that happen, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have any saying the matter. So it's just me
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  Speaker 1: asking my listeners for help. If you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: know of something, you can find something to do some research,
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  Speaker 1: ask somebody, whatever the case may be. If you find
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  Speaker 1: a platform or service that that we can switch over
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  Speaker 1: to and use and keep you know, my friendships going
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  Speaker 1: with them and keep the podcast and everything going, please
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  Speaker 1: send it to Mike at prison Audio dot com, or
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  Speaker 1: you can send it to red Onion Randy dot com,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your.
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  Speaker 5: Help, all right, with dad uh, I think I'm just
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  Speaker 5: going to give you a generalized.
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  Speaker 2: Update to what going on with me lately.
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  Speaker 1: I think the main thing that's been pissing me off,
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, is I got put in for a transfer. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at Keene Mountain Correctional Center in Oakwood, Virginia, which
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  Speaker 1: is a Level four institution, though they are in the
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  Speaker 1: process of transitioning Keen Mountain into a Level five, it's
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  Speaker 1: still going to be it's going to be a high
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  Speaker 1: level four low level five because they're just of all
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  Speaker 1: the gang activity in Virginia, and with the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Red Onion and Walling's Ridge and River North, which are
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  Speaker 1: their three level fives, they're filled to capacity, like they
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  Speaker 1: have no room. The only way you can possibly get
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  Speaker 1: transferred to one of those level fives from a level
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  Speaker 1: four or below is you actually have to put your
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  Speaker 1: hands on a staff member or you actually have to
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  Speaker 1: stab somebody. Right now, I'm at a level four institution,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I was told by my counselor that
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  Speaker 1: there's way more level fives here than there are level fours,
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  Speaker 1: simply because they have no room to put them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I did my year here.
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  Speaker 2: I did my.
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  Speaker 1: One year, which you know, there's no actual written evidence
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  Speaker 1: of this in any of the policies that I've ever read,
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  Speaker 1: that you have to be an institution one year before
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  Speaker 1: you can get transferred. But that's what they say. They
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  Speaker 1: do that, they say it's policy.
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  Speaker 2: Even though it's bullshit. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I did my one year, I got put in for
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  Speaker 1: my transfer, my counselor approved it. My building lieutenant approved it,
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  Speaker 1: my unit manager approved it. My warden Israel Hamilton approved it.
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  Speaker 2: It got sent to Richmond.
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  Speaker 1: Richmond approved it. Actually had me on the transfer list.
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  Speaker 2: To go to Buckingham and Buckingham.
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  Speaker 1: Is thirty minutes from where I live. It's thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: from home.
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  Speaker 2: You have no idea how excited I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm finally finally going to get my brother and
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  Speaker 1: my nephew to come visit me. And yes, they've They've
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  Speaker 1: been willing to come see me down here in this
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  Speaker 1: area for a long long time. I've just been telling
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  Speaker 1: them no, not to do it, simply because from the
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  Speaker 1: majority of that time I was at Red Onion Wallace
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  Speaker 1: Ridge and they would have had to visit me through
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  Speaker 1: the class because you don't get contact visits there. Though
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  Speaker 1: of course, as soon as I left they started giving
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  Speaker 1: him contact business there. But you know, I just simply
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get home. I wanted to get you know,
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  Speaker 1: closer to home anyway, So it's just easier on him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they don't have a lot of money. They
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  Speaker 1: do what they can, but you know, I am trying
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  Speaker 1: to make it easier on them. Thanks are going great.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waking up in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: You know, is this today?
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  Speaker 2: Is this today? They called me the property to pack
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  Speaker 2: me up.
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  Speaker 1: No, I get called to the counselor's office, go up there,
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  Speaker 1: talk to him, and he tells me that somebody in Richmond,
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  Speaker 1: the headquarters in Richmond, who's I believe he's in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the Central Classification Authority CCA. He said, no, he overrode,
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  Speaker 1: overrode my transer. Almost nineteen years, Chargery, I've completed all
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  Speaker 1: the programs y'all given me access to. I don't cause
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  Speaker 1: problems like I have. I literally have not done anything.
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  Speaker 2: And two decades.
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  Speaker 1: I've been char Tree longer than any other prisoner in
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  Speaker 1: Virginia by years years.
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  Speaker 2: Gim mean, you have a few guys.
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  Speaker 1: That's been char three, ten eleven years. I'm the only
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  Speaker 1: one that has ever been char True almost nineteen years.
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  Speaker 1: April twenty eight, for twenty twenty five, will be nineteen
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  Speaker 1: years to the day that I did. Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: that I slipped the child molesters throw to Sussex forty
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  Speaker 1: That was my last charge. That was the last act
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  Speaker 1: of violence. That was the last thing I have done
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  Speaker 1: in this state. And yet I can't get transured. And
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  Speaker 1: I originally put in for Lawrenceville, which is their incentive prison,
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  Speaker 1: And as any long term listener knows, you can go
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  Speaker 1: back years ago, that was my idea. The way they're
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  Speaker 1: running Orangeville now, being sent in prison, that all came
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  Speaker 1: from me.
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  Speaker 2: They took that.
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  Speaker 1: From me, and yet I couldn't even get transferred there. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, you want to send me to Buckingham,
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  Speaker 1: send me to Buckingham. I'm okay with Buckingham. It's close
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  Speaker 1: to home. I'll get to keep my single cell because
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  Speaker 1: they have a single cell pot there.
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  Speaker 5: And the prison is a little bit more wide open.
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  Speaker 1: Which I kind of like. I kind of enjoy that
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot more respect going around when you know, dude,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take off on you there like it's it's it
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  Speaker 1: has a reputation, you know, for for being understaffed, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, so on and so forth. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: easier to move and operate there, which hey, I'm all
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  Speaker 1: for it. You know, I've been on record for years
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  Speaker 1: saying I much prefer you're you're you're more violent, more
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  Speaker 1: wide open prison simply because it's easier to do time there.
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  Speaker 1: Especially for a man like me who knows how.
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  Speaker 4: To do time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know how to not.
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  Speaker 1: Just show respect, but to demand respect and return. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to put my hands on somebody to
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  Speaker 1: get that respect. That's just who I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm built like that.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I have years years of experience in
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  Speaker 1: dealing with people. You know, I have a reputation in here.
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  Speaker 1: So for me to go to Buckingham is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a prison dream come true. Except for Troy Ford. The
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  Speaker 1: man literally has no excuse. He has no reason, no
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  Speaker 1: justifiable reason. While my transfer should have been denied because
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 5: Policy is set up it has.
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  Speaker 1: You can only get points security points for a violent
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  Speaker 1: act within the last five years. Once it's passed that
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  Speaker 1: five years, the Virginia Department of Corrections can no longer
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  Speaker 1: utilize that act of violence against you. It's over with.
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  Speaker 1: It is dead and gone and buried as far as
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  Speaker 1: the Virginia Department of Corrections is concerned, except when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to yours. Truly, it seems like, and as far
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  Speaker 1: as I've come across, it seems like I'm the only
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  Speaker 1: one that they're breaking their owner rules against because I
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  Speaker 1: only have eighteen security points which is low low level three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually two points away from being a level two
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  Speaker 1: security classification, even though I can never legally go to
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  Speaker 1: a level two, and I would for god, No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't ever want to.
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  Speaker 4: Go to a level two.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do dorms. I can't have one selly, much
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  Speaker 1: less sleep in a giant ass room with two hundred
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  Speaker 1: of them or more like. That's just not gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: for me. So I'm tissed about that. I've gotta fight
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  Speaker 1: this again. You know, every time I go to get transferred,
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  Speaker 1: I get screwed. I was supposed to come to Keen
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  Speaker 1: Mountain October thirteenth for twoenty and twenty two. Nope, didn't
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  Speaker 1: get They sent me to Walling's Ridge instead, another supermax
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  Speaker 1: red onion stepsister, ugly stepsister or dad.
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  Speaker 2: Then I was there. I had to do a year.
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  Speaker 1: I did the year. I eventually got put in for transfer.
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  Speaker 1: They slow rolled my transfer, but I eventually got sent
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  Speaker 1: here to King Mountain. You know, now I want to
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  Speaker 1: get transferred to a level three. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: closer to home, you know, especially my wife's coming to
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  Speaker 1: visit me on March twenty ninth. In March thirtieth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she's flying into Richmond from the UK. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: would have been so much easier and it would save
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  Speaker 1: her so much money and gas and hotel and food
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff if I would have been closer,
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  Speaker 1: which I should be there, but thanks to Troy Ford. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: How tired of this I'll get.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm constantly being attacked by these people. Why
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  Speaker 1: because I was in the documentary and it shut down
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  Speaker 1: long term solitary. That's y'all's problem, y'all. The stupid motherfuckers
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  Speaker 1: that made me do the documentary. I told y'all originally
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it. Now, yes, looking back,
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  Speaker 1: thank god I did do it. Thank God they didn't
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  Speaker 1: make me do it. But at the end of the day, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Blame me for the documentary.
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  Speaker 5: You motherfuckers knew who I was.
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  Speaker 2: You know who I.
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  Speaker 1: Am because I don't change. I am the same person
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  Speaker 1: day in and day out.
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  Speaker 5: You cannot put.
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  Speaker 2: Fear in my heart.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask me a question, I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: the truth, whether you like it or not, whether it
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  Speaker 1: makes me look good or not, I tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've got a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I don't talk about the stuff that y'all do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I jump on y'all for the food, and rightfully so,
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  Speaker 1: I jump on y'all for the contract y'all have with Kifi,
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  Speaker 1: you know which. Speaking of Kife, of course, they've raised
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  Speaker 1: their prices again. And I'm not talking about like one
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  Speaker 1: or two cents, No, I'm talking thirty to forty cents
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  Speaker 1: on most items. A one bag of three ounce coffee,
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  Speaker 1: their own coffee, by the way, it's Keefe brand, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about Folgers or Maxwell or you know,
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  Speaker 1: another company's brand. No, they have their own brand of
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  Speaker 1: coffee that went from four dollars and thirty one cents
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  Speaker 1: up to four dollars and seventy cents five dollars basically
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  Speaker 1: for a bag of coffee. Yet I can't get a job. Well,
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  Speaker 1: actually I did get a job. The wardon Hamilton actually
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  Speaker 1: gave me a job working in the library, which is
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  Speaker 1: a dream job for me because I love reading and
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  Speaker 1: I would always have access to books and I would
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  Speaker 1: always get first cracked at brand new books coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, somebody else here decided to override the Wayward
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  Speaker 1: and give that job to somebody else so now I'm
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  Speaker 1: still without a job, So now I don't have that
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  Speaker 1: little extra paycheck, you know, to kind of help make
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  Speaker 1: ends meet, which I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. I have some really loyal,
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  Speaker 1: really good friends who make sure I don't go hunger,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But still the Virginia Department of Coressions keeps
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  Speaker 1: allowing in Kify every three months, literally every three months.
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  Speaker 1: They raised the prices, but yet Virginia has not raised
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  Speaker 1: the pay for state jobs, which most of the people
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  Speaker 1: who have state jobs are the people.
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  Speaker 4: Who don't get money from home.
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  Speaker 1: They only get that little paycheck, that little thirty five
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  Speaker 1: cents an hour, and Virginia has not raised that pay
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  Speaker 1: rate thirty some years. It's still the same, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm seriously you have one minute remaining, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm seriously considering hiring a guy named James C.
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  Speaker 1: Dillingham to help me file for a commutation of a
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  Speaker 1: conditional part and a full parton whatever I can get.
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  Speaker 1: I can't keep doing this.
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  Speaker 2: It's something has to give.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's what's going on with me, all right.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's all the time.
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  Speaker 3: We have for now.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you listening to me more than you'll, uh
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  Speaker 4: you'll probably ever know. I just want to let you know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, don't forget to check out my website right
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  Speaker 4: on your Randy dot com. And for those of you
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  Speaker 4: full part in and you know, getting the assistance I
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  Speaker 4: need to help get out of prison, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: pay for the phone calls and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, Take care, stay safe.
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