witnesses like we would do in court. same thing. going up to the hospital. second floor. before officer deed meets with samuels witnesses, he visits edwards who s still recovering from the incident in the infirmary. edwards, i m officer deed and this is officer carson and i have a 115 for you for the fight you had on the yard the other day. it charges you with battery on an inmate. okay, this is a division a offense, carries a maximum time of 360-day forfeiture of credit. it says here that i harmed somebody. who did i harm? the individual you were fighting with, supposedly fighting with. is he in the infirmary? no, he is not. i see. do you want to have an investigative employee, want anybody investigating, want anybody making any statements? no, just the employee working that day.
i kept going to group homes and kept running from group homes, ended up in wiley. not worried about the [ bleep ]. caught on a gun charge. went to county jail, got out for that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. got out now. i got a violation for access to a gun. never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. and i thought that was positive because that s all i knew so i m thinking that is the right way, so i m going to go that way. that s what i did. samuels wants to turn his life around for the sake of his son. he doesn t want his boy to grow up without a father like he did. that s my life right there. that s what i got to live for right now. that s what i think about all the time. i want to straighten my life out for him. because i ain t never had no dad. even though my dad would have been good for me, because i knew how he was, he fell victim to the streets. i don t want him to be the same. i don t want him growing up like me. i got to
i have to do something for him. people ain t gonna forget, even if i try to straighten my life up. because a lot of people are trying to straighten their life up been living in the same environment. somebody come and kill you. people don t forget because you re doing good. they don t take away the hurt that you caused people. you can die in your environment, that s what s [ bleep ] going to happen if i out on the street. i ve got to leave. that s the only thing that will help me. samuels, along with the other ad seg inmates, is given only one hour of yard time each day, most of which is spent talking about what they all have in common, serving time. i m supposed to get out next month. see you next week, right? but since it s an assault on a peace officer, i don t know if they will let me go back or ship me out. i don t know what s going on. my program up next month. they have me up for a transfer. i m just a lonely dude trying to go home to his family. you feel me? hell yeah.
he ll be at the hearing then. see what he saw. do you have any questions? no. all right. thank you. hey, jamie. what happened was, man, i went on to see edwards, right? up at the hospital. at the hospital, yeah. doesn t look too good. worse for wear, yeah, he got facial lacerations. the only person he wanted at the hearing was reporting officer gunman, that s the only person he wants there. he doesn t want nobody investigated. so that s it on that, however, samuels wants somebody investigated. so i m going to go up there and get these guys out on the tier, right? 227. 227? oh, yeah. samuels is up there being charged with battery on an inmate, right? and he wanted me to ask you what did you see? i didn t see nothing. i was on all i seen when i looked to the side, all i heard
was it self-defense, did he swing on you first, is that what you want me to ask them? that it was self-defense, he swung on me first. he swung on me first. the whole yard seen it. i will give you a copy of the report once it s typed. all right. all right? all right. see you in a little bit. what i m going to do right now, right, i have to get the yard list from the officer so i know who to question and i ll go ask these individuals per inmate samuels, right, did the other inmate swing on him first? friday was the 30th. right here, willie. just give me the house and the name. officer alejos locates witness names in the yard log. there are five inmates officer deed must question. thank you. all right, willie. due process. a man, he has that right. he has witnesses to be called right here. he has the right to tell his side of the story and present