Have to take you. Inside. To a whole lot of things but mean to each other to. Me and i think. We. Have to make do so you. Know but we have to. Take to washington all clothes. Put your clothes in a bag. Or you take them to the laundry and. You dont know which. You might close back you might not. Be that good at all. The mole in the prison is coming through the wall you bring it to be inhaled that. A lot of people sick. That. Sewage is bad. And the unit. To be the newest the most modern. It is still crumbling infrastructure is crumbling in its business to anybody who even walks into the normally when you go to a visit. Its going to be hot or its going to be cold either its going to be extremely cold out or is going to be extremely hot inside normally temperatures excess of 100. 00 degrees theres no accident theres no. Theres no accusation for this in a ventilated area. And in the actual pods in the sails that whole guys they have no circulation at all so what you normally would see is that you see. And theyre laying on the coal for because you know when that is in made out of cinder block sender blocks they hold in their cool air they hold so dear in the summer months theyre holding in all the cool air so the gas just lay bare just like bare chested on the floor its not uncommon to see 5 or 6 guys just laid out in a sale on the floor vironment is visible in the face of the. Rats roaches spiders. And little Fire Fighters mosquitoes to. Waltz in that you want to see in the corners of the facility and these are areas where the public are. I mean theres nothing new about whats happening in march and i would say in very recent history i think 2 summers ago in august there was basically every other day most of them parchin and in a little bit further back history if we look at the 1970 s. Theres this successful suit that they. Are sort of people win against the state that leads to the end of the trustees system and that was around cruel and unusual punishment so as long as the prison has existed there have been these sort of. Cruel inhuman conditions and what were going to continue to see and have seen in the past is these. Periods where the state violence is sort of most apparent to us but for people who are incarcerated that state violence every day. I would never drink the water or i dont like to wash my hands in the bathrooms because when you turned water on its literally the color of mud water fountains when they were the same way they were that come on the water fountains youre too scared to drink the guards will tell you not to drink i had guards give me about water because i didnt have any they went to water but my clients want that water all the time so the water varies between 2 ways its either to chlorinate it or it smells like sewage and so all the pipes leak right so the gas tied their socks around the leaky pipes and so if the socks are brown they know not to drink the water if the sox are why they know koreans in the water we can wash our clothes and that if you dont drink the water youre going to drink it at that time if there is a border notice in the area you guys will get by the water there are still forced to drink that water they take their medication what water that smells like sewage they take medication in water that visibly if you put it in a cup and they think as well take it they let the water sit and they let all the soil and all of the particles go to the bottom and then they just drink the water that is clarified on top. Conditions that have been this way. Behind me is the Mississippi State penitentiary known locally as parchment prison where an astounding 9 individuals have died in the past month alone since the start of the new year reports of everything from fights and fires and suicides to insufficient food and Water SuppliesPower Outages and individuals sleeping on the floors have been reported and a mountain of human rights abuses are allegedly going on behind these walls we traveled here today to speak with locals activists politicians celebrities and everyone in between and to try and figure out why these things are happening here parchment and what can be done to fix the problem in order to understand the Current Crisis inside parchment you have to go way back in history and understand the prisons roots the former governor of mississippi an open my supremacist james k. Vardaman was instrumental in creating the Mississippi State prison he believed that the money made from convict leasing and chain gangs should go to the state instead of private entities and those of the Mississippi State penitentiary was born the prison itself is a reform so parchment prison comes about at the turn of the last century as a as a way to sort of. Undo what some people are see as the problems of the comically system and in particular governor the governor at the time James Vardaman who is an unapologetic white supremacist actually runs on a campaign of white supremacy. Believes that the problem with comic leasing was not really the sort of. Human rights abuse that it was but rather that he saw it as sort of lining the pockets of the plantation class that he was a white supremacist populist and believed that this sort of state run plantation style prison would instead be a way of sort of socializing africanamericans to their place which he saw as. Manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also white supremacist in its intent. As i mentioned james james vitamins the person who established. Parchment and hes actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with bloodhounds for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born theres really no some training white supremacy. An issue with. The timeline that there were about 4 or 5 its within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and january 2nd either on january 2nd in the o. C. Issued a statement stating that everything was under control however on january 3rd 2 more people died as a result of the incidents have occurred within one of the indio see it was still a tease throughout the state we did a timeline breakdown of everything that was occurring once we did that time last week we deployed the article on Twitter Facebook all of our platforms and certainly it began to go really viral we posted a video image of that was sent of several being being housed in unit 32 of parchment unit 32 a question that has been condemned closed down since 2000 and i says 2000 i suffered for over 10 years and that was closed down a. C. L. U. Entered in agreement with Mississippi State prison for parchment to close it down the reason it was closed down was because it was a hellhole the. Essential it was it was a place where where 6 of the people that were being housed there it was the death row facility it was the place where where people who were very sick was also being housed but it was also a. Place that was a violent place to say the least essentially the a. C. L. U. Decided. This facility should no longer be open so for 10 years this this place had been closed down and this was the place that. These be incarcerated people were moved to this facility now is flooded it has black mold in it they have no mattresses it basically has not been maintained in 10 years it was continue to be able to years ago but we have video surfaces of these men inside of this facility and we had already told the story that no other new site was telling with regard to those men being in unit 32 nobody else had disclosed it because they didnt have the inside information once we got it we shared it and we shared their video on the video went viral on twitter it was shared by. Many hip hop artists and attain is on twitter and instagram can people like t. I. David banner and big create i think even so a lot of rappers have really been vocal about it parchment is located at least 2 hours away from many major cities making it difficult for lawyers them in prison having kids to visit in recent months incarcerated people have used contraband cell phones to share videos and photos of their conditions on social media. And its news to force transparency in a deadly situation where the prison officials allege that prison gangs are to blame for the mounting death of the merged many are pushing against that narrative stating that the inhuman conditions are driving people beyond sanity i think now with all of that. Technology that now were going to have people are now going to be able to see inside and i think thats whats threatening to. Do the people that are supposed to be in charge of the prisoners not disappoint i think this is was threatening to one because you cant you get so many people and so much of that is around so much controversy and they were going there you cant you cant really control of doubt who word a get richie this from whom and cell is going to continue to leak were going to give them no more things that continue to slip because people are getting bold. But now people are also coming up get the main way their prisons have been able to skirt any type of regulation that already around issues involving prisoners and litigation pretty much came out of the night and Congress Passed the prison litigation reform act and what that was is that at that Time Congress was saying in prisons were seeing a large number of prisoners filing suits about the conditions that they lived in and it was causing a backlog and a backlog. In the system and so congress wanted a way to limit the rights of prisoners to bring federal lawsuits about the conditions that they were being complied and so what the p. L. R. A does is that it basically calls for prisoners to allow their captors time and notice to fix issues that are conditions based basically which you have to do is that you have to say you have to say to the people who are holding you in these conditions hey. This water smells like or this water tastes like corey and then you have to give those people a reasonable amount of time to address the issue before you can move on. To even file a lawsuit against the president. Believes them in the United States and in the United States the leading capitalist in this country on a global jihad which grabs that belief that leaves them their middle. Last without jobs without a future its a disaster and youre covered over with endless eater but the reality is a disaster and it was good from work yet you would see other people emerging trying to make a political career by pointing to their. Problems drugs dont always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the United States we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invited to america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so whos to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. The system is working. This week clear is not a broken criminal Justice System the criminal Justice System is doing what it was designed to do steal kill and destroy. People its working what needs to happen with the system is tear to system apart every b. Thats what needs to happen because if we dont repeal it put some louse in fight were going to keep this repetitive cycle. Budget only rubio when you bring different people to the table would differ my absolute and the way to mississippi you would always have been. Little ball. But i believe this generation use clomid look. Good. Its not the gang leaders who are feeding them only one meal a day its not the gang leaders who are not repairing the. Plumbing where they can get water i mean more than just one water bottle a day its not the gang leaders who are leaving trash everywhere i mean this is obviously a problem with the state of mississippi when we think of prisoners we dont think humans we think criminals we think gang members we think murderers rapists we dont think that over half the population in prison are in there for victimless crimes we dont think that these are indeed humans who deserve human rights. We want to think that theyre terrible people so whenever the state tells us that theyre terrible people we feel like its ok that they get treated terribly and thats just not the case most prisoners are not in there for any other reason than possibly smoking a plant or doing some other victimless crime harshman for example you have the a. A. R. P. Processors called the administrative remedy process and the way its supposed to work is that there is supposed to be a box and each unit on each zone needs to hear and there are supposed to be these little forms that you can fill out in the end it has in you can only bring up one issue at a time and it has to be so specific as to give. The reasonable notice in time to fix your problem before you can move on and so it is that is a 3 step process you feel that they are p. And you tell them what your complaint is and you put it in the box and you hope to get a response if you dont get a response within 30 days you would answer the 2nd step and the 2nd step is i did not get a response i still want to respond. You put that in the box they have 30 days to respond and then and only then if you have that nervous months and 60 days then if you can find somebody to file a lawsuit on your behalf against in b. O. C. To do so it makes it virtually impossible to get any kind of remedy legally. You dont have any. Solutions to the problems of parchment are difficult but they do exist Holding Elected Officials and prison officials accountable is on the lips of everyone i spoke with as well as Creative Solutions to addressing the issue people that are making decisions about what should happen with prisons. Should be prison have not a clue whats really going on youve got the wrong people at the table you know you need those people at the table that really care people that are connected to the issue at hand people who have had Family Members behind you know the bars how can you really connect how can you really see what youre willing to see and be human and see people as human if you have not been through the experience one way or the other whether youve been a Family Member if you had a Family Member in there or locked up to hold somebody accountable for whats happening now you almost have to do. Because it go back so far it didnt just or it didnt just happen you just keep getting people in position to not change and it is the problem but in order to deal with hold of somebody accountable youve got to go away. So worse havent you got to actually have legislators and people actually going to the facility actually talking to people like their people and not just walk me ignoring them like youre looking at the pain on the wall but actually human masm bring on me and you know find out that they ask them that. You know make them human. Because they can help you solve the problems they can tell you is needed they can fix it guess who gets to vote light on is not us not any other organization not even the state of mississippi the inmates the prisoners all 100 percent in charge 100 percent in charge. Of the Media Attention has pressurised out the more the abuse the abnormal use the hand the walls with live behind the wall and you going to have offices this going to say oh. Yeah rid of a yaml today you get channel 3 for fat. Guy washington whoever here and guess would they go now. And you dont shower when i say you can shall. You go eat when i say you can eat and guess what i say take your reckon take it now thats the reality it was going on behind the walls in the prison with luggage and in lockdown in this in a state but especially in mississippi is a time for dio say out to more to allow staff who are rated been overworked to have time off so this is a lot of this going on even more pressure rises a pressure situation. We want units we know should we want any brothers or sisters as a side unit 32 to be out of a unit 32 we were partially shut down in the interim. Immediately what we want is for those brothers and sisters us to have Better Food Better Health care Better Mental Health care we want them to be treated like human beings we want them to be able to have access to their family existed to their representation because these are things that theyre being done now right now just as here value of which you have to try and do in this year man a time in the amount of money that it takes to even if out in the litigations about conditions we can take the Alabama Department of corrections case as an example thats a 6 year lift you know organizers and have attorneys its 6 years to even get into a point to where they can bring Alabama Department corrections to the table in mississippi burgess can start question when he let the Health Department here last week the reason is the Health Department is can the on them before. But since that time they refused to allow those brothers access to to the necessary things and we want people out of their ultimately we want them to immediately reinstate parole for those who have the ability to have access to parole we want them to a media really released those who have been healed on not in the fences on drug offenses to de casa rate this system ultimately. Be honest with your goal is to abolish the system and start it over you know what i mean like reboot because weve never had a say in this process our brothers and sisters is that never had a say in this process but this process has always come down on us is very necessary we demand that whatever changes come in a transformative way the the problem of the prison and prison organizing has remained the same over time which is visibility its how do you draw attention to these dark sites. Across the country when theyre specifically designed to sort of prevent the public from understanding and empathizing in and knowing how to. Address the problem so i think a starting point for all of these campaigns is greater connectivity between people outside and inside so we make sure that we are responding to peoples needs inside and also aware of the conditions and creating sort of networks. So that when we have these episodes of extreme violence were able to better address the sort of everyday violence as well as it gets more and more attention and we get more and more leaders stepping up who are using their voices and using their their power stepping in their power to you know create a voice for for the incarcerated were still trying to be centric on the voices of the actual prisoners i know they are bringing in celebrities who are taking their own actions and what not but our thing is were talking directly right now to incarcerated people and to direct Family Members of people who are cars rated because when we look at the root cause and the Root Solutions of what needs to be done these are the people who are closest to the issue theyre going to know what they need done bring a lot of people who will to me to speak. Their goodwill wall. Because they have knowledge or heard someone speak about it they may feel it was deliverable voice book them to you well do murshid. Argue you read in the right its hard to explain to people. You expert. If you went to school to learn criminal Justice Reform or you went to law school or you now been elected june june now this you you want to be the expert you want to have the answers you pay. The price of educating yourself to be the expert and then when you have some matter come alone you did time in prison. Now tell you what you need this is what you need and thats a lot of why. The criminal Justice System in whats happening here in mississippi is happening because we have deafen our sadness the voices of the people they need to be heard because here we are 30 plus years in the gang and we still havent been heard although i hope that we have being heard and you heard your ear. If our state has heard us desta key because we can have people come from all over the world even local give Media Attention to it but the only way we know that weve been hurt is because chang starts to care. But its a cause for pride pressure conditions thats what made this a pressure just like water was a bust of a water pipe if you put too much pressure on it and. Everything thats happening. Right knowledge disappoint so say. The. Lobster loss. For no reason. People in sales. Are not supposed to be. Good. Good its called is the cause of death. Prison and they want to go imprison me. Go to prison. But not to disc a pass. This is the worst ever heard. Say to my brothers and sisters. Feel your. Pain. We have a stout from the day. To the current moment and we just asked him to stand down as strict and. Dead a week in areas where you can stop valley. Where you can encourage to. Do they just like you would embrace want would love. Like you would if you. Like your desirable names. And to know that you have people are here working. For you to. Join me every thursday on the alex im im sure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you. 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