use these two visions of atticus for useful discussion. also, since the novels are set at different times, to kill a mockingbird is set in the depression, this is in the thick of the civil rights movement as it s gathering force, it could be useful in order to talk about people s resistance. but isn t it possible harper lee changed her mind? she wrote this first draft of go set a watchman request where atticus is a racist ander editor said try it again and she thought i m going to write a version of where atticus isn t a racist. you re believing the official story. i find this novel suspicious. it reads like a failed sequel. it doesn t read like a first draft of the novel we know and love. maureen corrigan, we re waiting to read it. thank you so much. thanks for breaking my heart, maureen, come back again. thanks so much for joining us
criminals who do have connections and money, vast amounts of power and influence among the criminal world, do you these guards don t necessarily they re not very well paid, and they don t really do they have mechanisms for whistle blowing, for instance? if they hear rumors about tunnel building i mean, someone had to talk, right? do they have anyone they can tell? i think that s the important thing looking forward on a more serious note rather than just pointing fingers, et cetera, which will be done, is looking at how these places are policed and how whether guards have the right mechanisms to report w what they see as criminal activity. human rights sometimes visits the prisons, but not all the time. they re not always allowed access. that s an important thing to consider. malcolm, you write about life on the run, the hunt for el
stole his truck, 18-wheeler. stamper received additional prison time for inmate stabbings and for kicking a correctional officer down a flight of stairs at another facility. it s easy to have the sex in this prison. the guards don t see everything they claim to see. you can talk a guard and have friends lure a guard away from some place so you can get into some place, have the sex and get out before the guard comes back. there are staircases, there are closets, other people s cells. it s kind of like a cloak and dagger game with the guards. my case, i m just good at it. i never get caught. ten years. this is my fourth time fourth time in prison. i know how to i know how to work around the guards pretty easily to get the sexual things i need done. a week after getting caught in the prison chapel with
and proposes they go and rob this stash house, which as you said, often is said to contain hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of drugs and is said to be heavily guarded. well, this warehouse doesn t exist. the drugs adopt exist. the guards don t exist. and yet the informant and often under cover agent working for the atf tells the target, you know, you should bring along guns and friends. the target then frequently obliges, shows up at the appointed time and everyone there is arrest the. when they re arrested, jose, they re charged with incredibly serious crimes. federal drug crimes, gun crimes, carrying mandatory minimums of 10 years, 15 years, 25 years. there are people serving life in prison for these government-created crimes. and, you know, the government doesn t just create the crime, it also creates the time here. the government actually can set
convict code. they got their rules, we got ours. the convict code is you don t get in other people s business, you don t let nobody know your business, you don t tell on nobody. you stick with your own race. you don t talk to other people. you might stare at a person, he might consider that as a sign of disrespect. any inmate will tell you, that s the set of rules you follow first. on their first morning of shooting at utah state prison, the lockup crew entered the wasatch a cellblock, home to some of the prison s most violent convicts. we met a group of inmates playing cards and talking about who really runs the prison. the guards don t run the section. it s all run by your inmates. they pretty much tell what goes on. a guard does your section. but the inmates are pretty much they don t get along, they ll either force them out or they ll get moved. they ll get moved. they ll get moved. they ll get straight out told, you get your ass down to the pod. hit the bus