reeboks. that s your fubu. this is your michael jordan gear. this is your polo. this is your nice 501 jeans, you guys. this is what you guys sell yourself for. who speaks spanish here? can you read that? [ speaking spanish ] what does that mean? something about sexual assault. sexual assault. they warning you about sexual assault in prison, how to protect yourself against it. the inmates are in essence the deterrent that will guide these youth back to a life of contributing to society. this is the building we live in, north block. and this building they have little small cells that are 9 x 4, nine feet tall, four feet wide. that s smaller than a walk-in closet, you guys, but yet two men live in those cells in that building.
15-year-old boy to juvenile hall give him 15 to life for taking another life but never consider the fact that he wasn t right a cold-blooded murderer that only think of himself snoelt but couldn t that be a sign of a cry for help don t know nothing else and all he seeing is death and killing so what the hell all he seeing was kicking my until one day i got so tired i stab my new dad my new father wasn t right he used to do the same thing beat her every night until the ultimatum down the hall knocking down every picture and mirror on the wall a bunch of bes and hos and out the door never saw him no more until i got older finally answered the phone there i was listening to his voice it wouldn t close now i m frustrated and hated him even more now the hatred is so bad that my heart is cold
these are your nikes. these are your filas and your reeboks. that s your fubu. this is your michael jordan gear. this is your polo. this is your nice 501 jeans, you guys. this is what you guys sell yourself for. who speaks spanish here? can you read that? [ speaking spanish ] what does that mean? something about sexual assault. sexual assault. they warning you about sexual assault in prison, how to protect yourself against it. the inmates are in essence the deterrent that will guide these youth back to a life of contributing to society. this is the building we live in, north block. and this building they have little small cells that are 9 x 4, nine feet tall, four feet wide. that s smaller than a walk-in closet, you guys, but yet two
you re at a place no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing somewhere in a park. but you re here because of something you did. every saturday, we bring in groups of kids from san francisco, oakland, richmond, all over. you re not going to scare them with the little story that i m a murderer and i m in prison doing life. that doesn t scare anybody anymore. what you want to know, that this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of this place and never come back. we try to show them this is what could happen if you keep doing what you re doing. all right, you guys. where you guys is at right now, you guys is in r and r, which is receiving and release. when you decide you guys wants to commit crimes and the judge sentences you to a certain amount of time, this is the first place you re going to go when you get off of that bus. for you guys who like to wear your nice shoes, who like to wear nike, michael jordan, all of that good clothes, polo, when
youths to see all of the potential consequences of their actions. when i am going to juvenile court and they re telling me i m not going to be tried as a juvenile, they re going to sentence me to life in prison, when the man told me that, he specifically said, mr. monroe, you are a cold-blooded murderer, and we want you to rot in prison. i m sentencing to you life in prison. and he slammed down his little hammer and my mom screamed. imagine how that felt. how would your mom feel? this is what it took to get through to us. it took me to come to prison. it took shahib, and the rest of us to come to prison to realize there s more value in society and life than committing crime. with the knowledge they may never leave san quentin, the