that s why we re all in this room now. that doesn t make sense. why will i pay something somebody else lose? thank you. you can step out, and we ll let you know. i don t know nothing what they re speaking about, no gambling, none of that. i don t know anything about that. crazy to know someone would fabricate a story. most they can say is you re going to remain on lockup for 30 days, 20 days, 15 days, and go back to population. you lose a lot when you re in lockup. yeah, you do. but it comes with the time. comes with doing the time in jail. sometimes you got to roll with the punches. kelly waits outside while the committee deliberates. [ bleep ] said they were playing a poker game for several days wanted canteen correct. [ bleep ] he went to subject two, mr. kelly s room. these aren t in the right order. and there that s when the altercation transpired. [ bleep ] hit kelly first. being the aggressor, kelly defended himself. both are going to be found
i m going do. i feared for my safety. i deferring i felt i had to do with my attacker. he swung on me. what was i supposed to do? stand there and take the short end of the stick? no. we don t really fault him so much as defending himself and hitting back. but because he continued, and he punched him about five or six times, as well. we follow south carolina law. and south carolina law states if you don t try to separate yourself, are you a participant. so he did try participate. he was defending himself, but the fact that he did not try to separate himself from it, he is considered a participant. one punch wouldn t have done it? it don t work like that. we fight, we fight. you come looking for it, you get what you asked for. kelly will spend the next 15 days locked in a single-man cell 23 hours a day and lose most of his privileges including canteen.
ghillie becausecle becausecle demore than defend himself. he participated. a short time later, kelly is called back to hear the committee s decision. okay, mr. kelly. the board finds you guilty of a25. we are giving you a 30-day sentence. we are awarding you 15 days. you were defending yourself, you were not the aggressor. however, in the report it does state that you did continue to fight. you threw several punches. five to six punches. someone s in my cell. i have the right to protect myself. we did. that s why we re not giving you 30 days. if you continue fighting we understand the fact that you were defending yourself. what you ve got to understand, too, is it was still turned into an individual fight after that. all right. i feel like it was the wrong decision, but i have the right to appeal their decision which
and today, officers are hopeful nobody makes the dumb decision to start a fight on canteen day. especially with a renewed emphasis on a policy that requires inmates to store all their snacks inside a plastic box. give me your receipt. bring the receipt back. good morning. good morning. good morning. sheldon kelly, who got into a canteen-related fight a few weeks earlier, is out of segregation after serving only ten of his 15-day sanction. i filed appeal and got it overturned by administrative captain. pretty much went my way. he felt i didn t do anything wrong other than defend myself. but with no money in his debit account, kelly only receives one of the complimentary indigent packages. bar of soap, deodorant, envelopes. because i came off of lockup, i didn t have time to call my family for money. they supply with envelopes, toothpaste, deodorant, things of that nature.
convicted of violent acts in the past. at the time of his latest arrest, he was charged with assaulting a police officer, unlawful possession of a firearm, and criminal violence to which he has also pled not guilty. more significantly, when kelly was 14, he killed a man. 14 going on 15 years old. i running the streets with my brothers. being young, wild. just growing up too fast for my time. ended up catching a murder charge by assaulting someone with a baseball bat, and he died. blunt force trauma to the head. he ended up dying. charged me with murder, waived me up as an adult. sentenced me at 16 to years in the department of correct. i stayed there until my 29th birthday. i pretty much growed up in jail. kelly s murder charge was reduced to manslaughter, but he still spent 15 years in prison. at one point in time, to be honest, i didn t care whether i lived or died because i was