your feet in the concrete and go to work. that s all i know. i mean, this is what i know. my fate s real, you know. if i get out this time, god only knows what will happen. i ll more than likely be back. because brushy mountain is an intake and processing center for tennessee s prison system, dikes, like most of the inmates, eventually transfers to other facilities. i was 18 years old some, like brian lautenslager, are part of a permanent population slated to serve their entire sentences at brushy. i ve been in prison all together 18 years. i come in when i was 18, got out at 24, came back at 25, now i m 36. going on 37. lautenslager is serving a 90-year sentence for robbery and criminal intent to commit murder. this is a song i wrote a few years ago.
i just finished a 12 year sentence in the northeast. i wasn t out a month and caught my charges. i lived my whole life as a criminal. most people, they fight with that every day. they say i m going to get out, i m going to do this. i m going to get out and do that. they can t come to grips with themselves and realize what they have become is this. this is what they breathe, they eat, they feel. just because they go home, don t mean they leave. their mind is still here. today dikes is being transferred to another state prison and has no regrets. what s your number? 375382. what s your birthday? 1/21/77. i m packed up and ready to go. ready to get out of here? yeah. why is that? this place sucks. exit. you don t try to better yourself while you re here, then you re stuck.
you don t learn nothing from coming to prison unless you put your feet in the concrete and go to work. that s all i know. i mean, this is what i know. my fate s real, you know. if i get out this time, god only knows what will happen. i ll more than likely be back. because brushy mountain is an intake and processing center for tennessee s prison system, dikes, like most of the inmates, eventually transfers to other facilities. i was 18 years old some, like brian lautenslager, are part of a permanent population slated to serve their entire sentences at brushy. i ve been in prison all together 18 years. i come in when i was 18, got out at 24, came back at 25, now i m 36. going on 37. lautenslager is serving a 90-year sentence for robbery and criminal intent to commit murder.
they don t plan for the future. in europe it s a settled question. global warming climate change is a reality and they prepare for it. in amsterdam, how do you prepare for the dikes and levies. in venice, what happens if venice goes under water. if you re in switzerland what s going to happen to the tourist industry. they re looking at concrete consequences. in this country we have to worry about agriculture. summers are getting longer, wiptsers shorter. we have to worry about drought, potential water wars. potential new hurricanes like sandy. whether or not we should brace ourselves with new levees and seawalls. as a consequence we re not going to be prepared for the future. you re saying it s not taking place at all and jack you re saying when it does take place in the case of meet the press they go about it all wrong. right. i think there is definitely a debate to be had what to do about climate change and that s an important debate. doctor, do you think there s
i mean, this is what i know. my fate s real, you know. if i get out this time, god only knows what will happen. i ll more than likely be back. because brushy mountain is an intake and processing center for tennessee s prison system, dikes, like most of the inmates, eventually transfers to other facilities. i was 18 years old some, like brian lautenslager, are part of a permanent population slated to serve their entire sentences at brushy. i ve been in prison all together 18 years. i come in when i was 18, got out at 24, came back at 25, now i m 36. going on 37. lautenslager is serving a 90-year sentence for robbery and criminal intent to commit murder. this is a song i wrote a few years ago. every year i change the amount of years it s been since i ve