Pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because theyre afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea every joe you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Justice System in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know its no longer trial system its a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the perspective of a prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have a high 90 percent. Conviction rates including those plea bargains. Because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didnt do and so we agreed that i would plead guilty and exchange for a youth already sounds we went back into trial we entered the plea and i went down for a 90 day observation at the youth already in norwalk the challenge is if youre innocent and you plead guilty you better be a good liar you go down there you talk to psychologists and they ask you to just do it but you have to say yes because it has to be consistent with everything well how do you do it i mean i didnt have adequate answers for these questions so they didnt they didnt buy it in a sense you know rightly so and they sent a report that was this positive and negative report back to the judge. He said i didnt realize that you thought he would be able to help you and so allow you to take back your guilty plea and go have a trial or ill send you to state prison right now so that began another period of waiting. It would be well over a year before bruce would get another trial day 23 hours a day in a cell in isolation no contact with other juveniles only counselors one hour out for recreation and while they might not be able to introduce an alternate suspect demanded his lawyer knock down every argument the prosecution could make. The prosecutor said those could not have seen his mothers body through the back window of the house the sons reflection in the glass and the furniture would have blocked his view his defense was the crime scene pictures were taken on a much sunnier day the prosecution claimed all the bloody footprints in the house matched his shoes this defense says his fingerprints were not found anywhere in the time scene there was no evidence that he wiped anything down i made any attempt to cover his tracks because those had nothing to hide. Kishan called rapid hughes who claimed it was confessed in the 7000 model of county chair and the defense compared robert his to a used car salesman who wasnt to be tested and one day they wrap their keys on the door and they say listen here its a verdict my dad was there he was there just every court date he was right there in the front row and. Just you know. I contact but you cant really talk because youre not allowed to its not a visit you know youre not allowed to visit with your. But he was he was there and the jury comes in. One by one you know excruciating we slow sits down. And the judge speaks we reached a verdict yes we have in the matter of people versus bruce lescure. With the jury find the defendant. And they said guilty. And it was just. Read the bottom literally fell out of my world its that its over and that. Its my life. One youve been falsely accused your only hope is for your attorney to directly challenge the veracity of the pleas my attorney seemed unwilling to go that far you never read said isnt it true that youre just lying about all of this heres the investigatory work that i did that proves that youre just a liar and he never did that. And this is part of a larger problem that david serota calls the Authority Bias Authority Bias meaning the government and institutions says somebody did something and they must have done it and whats strange about it is that this is a country that in one way we americans i go says i dont trust the government can do anything right on down trust any government says and yet at another level at the very same time that thats the dominant rhetorical. Paradigm in our politics there is this Authority Bias where when the government accuses somebody of a crime or says somebody a wrongdoer flexibly millions of millions of americans think it must be true for you to go youre not there for your honor thank you very well youre not beholding would you like to be placed under arrest youre not allowed to arrest me. And so if you find yourself in prison its hard to have any hope at all. A year later. Another woman in knifepoint and less sentenced to 6 years for Armed Robbery but other than the father nobody had connected my client to the murder of other inmates Jeff Deskovic another wrongfully convicted man trying to kill his innocence. Remember reading about. In the magazine. People who allege theyve been wrongfully convicted of a plausible story to write about the hope that more public attention will come when i read about bruces case it was reaffirming to me that i was on the right path because even though he had been exonerated he was still looking for help he had given up you cant give up no matter how long it takes. And it could take a long time one of the biggest factors in why the us has the largest prison population in the world is the length of our prison sentences. That average sentence for burglary in canada and in england is around 6 months in the us its around a year and a half. In other developed countries a drug offense might land you a year a year and a half in jail in the us its 5 to 10 years or more if youre black. 20 percent longer and if youre a white man for the exact same crime i met a woman that had a 1st offense nothing more than 5. 00 worth of crack cocaine and was sentenced to jail in 1979 and didnt come until 2014 and she said to me i dont know how to use the phone. I dont know how to send a text. Or email. People particularly black people were defined as the enemy in the war on drugs they were defined that way politically but also through media imagery crack cocaine epidemic is taking a dangerous turn white people brown people people all use drugs and sell drugs at the same rate but if we look at whos serving time in americas prisons the Law Enforcement apparatus is deploying disproportionately against people of color look at them in the war on drugs also bears a major responsibility for racial bias in our prison system is africanamericans are rested for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites and longest sentences people of color make up only 30 percent up to laces the make up 60 percent of a prison by the most conservative estimates if we keep going the way one in 4 black man born today will go to jail at some point in their lifetime. 5. 3000000 americans of the rights of vote based on a felony conviction and that impacts man of color more than anyone else just has to change. You know with any. Damage and although white people may not have been the original target they may not have been the inspiration for the war. Many people particularly poor working class white folks have found themselves. Is a u. S. Army veteran who served in the gulf war. 3 weeks. Or so that he was giving me for free if you want to call that trafficking trafficker. Personally use we would just fry and play frisbee and listen to rock n roll drug affairs are never major reason for americas overflowing prison population the u. S. Locks up more people for drugs than any other country on the planet there are over half a 1000000 americans locked up for drugs on any given day and the ball was one of them he was facing a lot of time facing 10 year mandatory minimum but they offered him a deal for not forcing the government to go through the time expense of a trial all he had to do was plead guilty and after some painful consideration. And after all those years in prison one thing bothered paul the most you know here we are in this modern society where we are melting pot and nobodys getting along for the most part and then in prison you know its completely opposite you know suzy going there if you were a racist or you went in there require you to be one soon as you get in every single jail or prison or every one ive ever been to its all divided by race everything segregated and there you have the white phone you have my skin phone you have the black phone you know the asian phone. My name is 2nd face see on the on social media its a taxi or they dont see it so. With the border you know if. You know weve got to get it out. Because. The movie. Night feeds pizza box and i use that down sixtys to make it a day and no food to eat school i try to teach to people face. People. Whove been forced to close because. Proves you really hes trying to shift the life music. I love to jazz because he makes me copy i love to dance because the makes me copy point beautiful. And when you go to church. Beyond awesome because its part of my ass. Love. I dont. It seems the racism that helped spark the explosion of americas prison system still burns like a raging fire with its walls shamefully him from the public eye. It was a very strict code of running on your race this is what we do. Even the Prison Guards promote this. Some people theorize that its a way for the guards to keep control over us because if we all got along then who would really be running the prison. Us or the guards one guard for every 100 guys Prison Society is further divided from race into gangs so it helps to either be in one or be from the right neighborhood or ride to prison the guy that was next to me was just a regular dove lone beach he played basketball and padi high school he was a regular dooley on a flat top you know me you know he was going to prison for he had took a deal for i believe it was like a spousal abuse images grow it was a terrorist threat in the United States a terrorist threat covers and the statement contains the threat of violence against another person in this case reggie is talking about an argument a man was having with his girlfriend where he threatened her he was going to beat her or whatever it was it was a terrorist threat it was no physical violence or anything but he took a deal for 18 months and he was only supposed to like take a deal for 18 months youre going to do it 5 or 10 or whatever so he failed. The 1st night we got the ax who from South Central from South Central where you from explains when one of your homeboys over here theyre going to direct you where you supposed to go this guy he didnt have anybody he was just from long beach no he just was a regular do no end that night. And im listening to was going on and on every 1st i thought they were playing because thats what he started off was this is the whole gamut they everything is that is is. Way to lead to something knows just what id say you dont let anybody touch you in geo and he didnt know it is easy to understand it youre not supposed to rouse was somebody to say oh because this is what theyre doing theyre trying to see if they can get youre going to position in this it right here moment both and im listening to him they give them a somebody will come help does do. Me and they did that night in the say oh they were 18. According to the department of justice nearly one in 10 prisoners suffer sexual abuse while in american jails and prisons. So lets keep that in mind the next time a talk show host a Government Official or anybody makes a joke about prison rape the fact that we find these jokes acceptable shows just how far weve gone to normalizing rape as a just punishment for any offense as long as we keep imagining that people in prison are subhuman and theyre predatory and cordial and nothing like you and me why would we lose any sleep about what their lives are like whats happening to them there are now over 5000 jails and prisons in the United States more than we have colleges and universities in many parts of america are simply this out there are more people who are living in prisons there on College Campuses and a multibillion dollar business has emerged. Brace yourself this is going to sound too barbaric to be real like Medieval Times a Science Fiction horror film or a french historical these are the 13th amendment of the constitution outlawed slavery but it still allows for forced labor if you are and president today there are roughly 1000000. 00 american prisoners working for corporations and Government Industries there is no minimum wage so you could make as little as a few cents an hour bruce worked in the kitchen for years then in clerical jobs making a maximum of 0. 32 an hour. It sounds like another time brothers movie but its happening right now there are no benefits no organizing and no strikes this is big business for state and for profit prisons who sell inmate labor to fortune 500. 00 like shop run bank of america 18 n. T. And the us military nearly half the population in prison make military uniforms body armor helmets and provide labor as subcontractors for fortune 500. 00. They make Office Furniture man call centers take otel reservations work can slaughter houses for manufacture textiles shoes and clothing for pennies prison labor is part of why some state and private prisons old a multibillion dollar profit. Not only are prisoners used to make products prisoners themselves are sold this products since the 1980 s. The prison population is boom now 150 private prisons are paid billions by state governments to house prisoners private prisons do so well some of their biggest investors are banks like Wells Fargo Bank of america many private prisons demand 90 or even 100 percent occupancy meaning the taxpayer foots the bill for every bed even the empty. For profit prisons are incentivized to incarcerate more people and for longer periods of time to shoulder. To make sure that happens they spend millions pushing tough on crime. Today nearly 10 percent of americas prisoners are held in private prisons they also spend millions influencing immigration detain immigrants are held in private prisons for indefinite periods of time often years exposed to brutal conditions because theyre not americans the government gives. No right to even the most basic legal representation or medical care 3 housing facilities were set on fire and apparently all started over inmate frustration over the quality of medical care perhaps needless to say being treated like cattle and used as forced labor for pennies an hour is not that popular on the inside but thats not the worst of it the socks if youre using the underwear that is you is used you got to buy things like shaving and food and sweat socks underwear shirts the canteen or commissary is more expensive than any Convenience Store on the outside its definitely advisable to have money so that you can get started if you dont have 50 to 100. 00 coming into your books or your account every month then youre going to need to hustle. This is philip he was convicted of robbery is crooked is is we are out here course crooked insider to whether its drugs whether its alcohol youve got people that they dont drink but they manufacture prune a wall d. Is saying quit in the in the in the boiler room they found a still friends that i knew had actually gotten so far as to likes the copper tubing tremendous tree is over and so we had copper tubing they were making motion and saying quit. Mainly they drank it today of us all. So drove through our business through a correctional officer is like a networking college for criminals of the month or any of the guys in prison are there trying to learn how to do crime better and this is just a school for criminals to learn more criminals and thats not an exaggeration 2011 study from Ohio University showed that after spending time in prison continuing to engage in crime scene their criminal earns increase on an average by a 1000. 00 a year jodie lewin is the executive director of the prison. Diversity project there are thousands and thousands of people in the system all they want is the opportunity to get a good education and to be hired by somebody where they can have a job where they have a meaningful work and a livable wage in the late eightys early ninetys there were python 315 programs in the prison system nationwide took my dads advice been saying for a long time look for some computer training is there any computer training in there because he knows you know i finally when i got to san quentin i said do you have any any computer training so it was great because i mean those who know the least obey the best you know and theres this rebellious kind of spirit in their stand still a big quantified self wall right now so theres this rebelliousness you know i could exercise my brain they can stop you from doing that and so we really got this cried about our education particularly enough to get a program in class and it was an honor to be able to fight the system as you might say by educating each other and then see me graduate that 8 years later and i was really proud of me and our relationship just blossomed just became so deep and so so meaningful and dad was everything to me. And it was just 2 weeks after i graduated that he died. Moved to this. Day. They will this. And he soon. Keep going. Through. This when i sign this crime bill we together are taking a big step toward bringing the laws of our land back into line with the values of our people in 1904. Congress passed the Violent Crime control and Law Enforcement act which among many other things barred people in prison from receiving. Most of those programs folded almost overnight to be realistic everyone should have a College Education or its already been open too much. But if they have skill such as welding while theyre on the shore its to. Go through the wall in program and theyre making 3040. 00 on their own streets and theyre writing letters back to the instructor over here those are. These guys new jobs so there wont be a problem still going to turn into the dough you know during the drugs and that type of thing so. What are the true critical reason number one why people are ending up in prison is for a lack of really quality Educational Opportunity the American Public in general has been so profoundly brainwashed into thinking that what were doing with our prison system is somehow normal or rational or. Just. I find that overwhelming and exhausting i mean because im the more you spend time in. Inside and the more content you have of people whove been directly affected the more deprived the. Appearance. Out of every inmates are physically attacked every. Lot of the violence you see in prison is not an expression of the character of the people in prison its people reacting to the situation and this is something so few people understand if you took a 1000 people off the street and put them. Here huge number of them would end up committing violence because of the situation that theyve been placed 5 years into as an older inmate whose nickname was the devil one of the ready to take the blame for a knife that guards at the yard but reggie refused later would say. That the devil was going to kill him or he had to kill the double. Could have been about the situation any other way and no matter how many. This was the only thing that could have happened it dont sit right with me because i never been in the 1st place. You turned me into. This whole time and you turned me into a murderer because i had to after that they put their genes solitary confinement and he went from a life sentence without possibility of parole to facing the Death Penalty. So he gets put on trial for the Death Penalty case and his lawyer starts looking into his original case and gives me a call and says you know i think this guys innocent before he went to prison for the 1st book. And the 2nd reason besides the prison was this miracle to happen to be a book. About the Homicide Division the author of the book documented right along with the detective. This homicide investigators 1st night that she was on the job that they. Every night she investigated the murder she would ultimately arrest reggie for and were flipping through the book and reading all the stuff and of those never disclosed the defense its all documented that all indicates pretty clearly that reggies innocent but it would still take the Innocence Project 10 years to get reggie out of prison. This from last. American citizen today to blast off. For an attack file we have asked to back and i dont think. I would vote for a republican i would vote for anyone not and has half a brain defeat dont try. To feed. My 2nd wife. She can handle. She and i divorce because our trouble is elected president and i floated for her and she cant stand. That when the most important election. In our history. List and months to go before the next president ial election. Is fair in the us now i. Want to the highest Priority Programs only brave and true they do next. Just some of the questions we put to the american. Everybody is reaching for that you. And i mean it so russia and i think the resolution of this is theres going to be a nasty war thats going to go on for maybe months as john in an already rejected. Must goes off to mediate because the fighting is too early on that people are now battling to see what territory they can get and i think when the fighting settles down and the lines are drawn and people realize that theyre not going to move forward or backwards then theyre going to sue the other. As the u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it is that were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people new choice you know theres been a problem with the city can always turn a machete told me stay away oh miss. The food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable and abandoned on the streets to become the invisible comes. A week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to. The relentless shelling of the capital r. T. Reports from the area. 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket. The fighting has spilled beyond the disputed no one a cup a region as a bordering a very city comes under fire. Im not here to call lies Everybody Knows hes a liar and theres nothing smart about you just what you sure dont listen excuse the workers so your number to go to. The 1st president ial debate before the u. S. Election descended into name calling and interruptions its like a groundhog
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