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.
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? 75832. 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.
question. we got the answer. i m sending a letter now to get more detail on the amount of use. surveying american soil and under what conditions. just get this information out. i think the right of privacy is at stake. if there is a legitimate law enforcement reason for using them they ought to say what it is. there was a statement released to cnn saying they do use drones in a limited on a limited basis. they did point to one case where a drone was used, they say, in the alabama standoff that happened this year that jimmy lee dikes hostage situation. there was a 5-year-old being held captive by mr. dikes. apparently the fbi is saying they used a drone in that circumstance. do you believe that type of law enforcement situation, a
about 60% contained. wildfires are also burning in new mexico and colorado, both fires leading to evacuations. no reports of injuries or destroyed buildings. and a weather nightmare continues in the midwest. take a look at this. a levee breached near st. louis, the water gushing out of the mississippi river, now threatening small towns all along the river as emergency workers scramble to reinforce barricades and temporary dikes. residents in st. charles county near st. louis had to be evacuated last night after the levee was breached. flood warnings and advisories are in effect from northern illinois to louisiana. so more rain? oh, unfortunately definitely still rain in the forecast. we keep seeing this, that time of year in the middle of the country. we have the threat for rain and severe weather over the plains. oklahoma city again under the gun today as well as portions of