we can look online and see what those mutual funds are invested in and see if they are involved in in some way profiting from the prison system. so i m looking for corrections corp of america. there it is. it seems crazy, doesn t it? it s so mind-boggling. it s very warped. it may be time to tell your financial advisor there are certain issues you d rather not be involved in. yeah. yeah. to think i m an investor in that unknowingly is even more disturbing for me. i keep going to people and saying, is this a giant conspiracy? no. everyone just the way things are done, from the prosecutors to the d.a.s to the judges to magistrates, they re just all part of a system that works. it s an industry. yes.
driving under the influence, then, had to pay exorbitant court and jail fees. he missed one payment. then, seven police officers broke down his door and arrested him. the process for me has been two years. you can be a good person and it only takes one mistake for you to be in this system and once you re in, you re in. kordei wants to leave and get a fresh start elsewhere. he s trapped in easton because of an unending procession of probation and court appearances. have an 8-month-old son and a 4-year-old, whose father committed suicide, god forbid and i ve taken him under my own wing and being a father and mentor to him, showing him the rights and wrong and how to grow up with positive, positivity, you know, being an optimist, you know, taking the worst situation
juvenile, it taught me nothing. it taught me more about the game and made me resent the system as a whole. i learned more doing the streets and gave me more of a drive to do in the streets in dys than i ever did in the streets. going into counties, fighting day and night, spending time in the hole only made me colder. it didn t make me no better. sentence me more and more treatment as if i meant nothing made me feel like no one meant nothing. it made me even colder. having to lose brothers, relatives while locked up never helped me. it took my father and my uncles and left the streets as my father then taught me the way of prison life. that you take no sorts, that you ride, that you fight.
anyone who can explain white privilege to privileged white people with as much charm as adam foss. i saw this system playing out that disproportionately affected people that look like us in a really, really negative way. i actually got caught selling a lot of weed and i was doing it across state lines. so it was a federal crime, but i was caught by my father in my driveway. and i was adopted by white people. and because of who he was in terms of being a respected community member and a police officer, nothing happened to me as a result. i mean, i got a kick in the ass from my dad and we had a conversation about that. and you know, i was grounded or something. but i certainly didn t need to go to jail or prison. so i just feel like it s unfair that the privilege that i had in having a mentor like my father and having that safeguard from
skyrocketed. it shouldn t be the responsibility of justice system actors anyway to be the primary, the first responder for people with mental illness, for people who are self-medicating with alcohol or drugs. because of depression or trauma or all this kind of stuff. it shouldn t be the criminal justice system. but that s what we ve got. so a lot of the work around reform is how do we make that system better at spotting those folks and finding alternatives to get them out. there are good people inside of the jail system. i know that seems like an oxymoron to some people. there are individuals that are in bad situations. one of my best friends from high school tommy, tommy spent his whole life in and out of the county jail. he never got any treatment. i didn t understand how that could happen. i wonder how many other tommys there are. you re right. there s a lot of tommys there are. they should not be spending time inside our institutions. they need to be in hospitals where help