years of his life. mccrory s son now comes to visit him a couple of times a year. are you proud of him? oh, absolutely. for him to just graduate from high school and not be in in any trouble is enough for me to be proud. if he d have took after me, way different road. and that comes from his mama, a lot of that does. his son, who has just scheduled another visit, has inspired mccrory to be a better role model. he currently has a nonpaying prison job as an orderly but today is applying for a much better job as a clerk in the staff canteen. how much does it pay? $75 a month. it just keeps the pressure off your family from having to send so much money. cuts down on what they send. mccrory must interview for the job with the institutional classification team. you got past experience working at a canteen? yes, sir, at county correctional institution. how long did you work in the canteen? one year, sir. did you have any problems while you were doing that? no, sir, n
god? to make it and all of the scriptures and everything in it. so the inspiration was given to you by god. yes. where did you get the bag? the bag, i picked up here from the kitchen, i think it was. pritchett says god inspires him in other ways as well. you pray in tongues? yes, ma am. [ speaking in tongues ] you don t know what it is. and it s not done in church. but it s done between you and god. do you know what you just said? no. coming up it s home for the next 20-something years. anthony bell returns to close management. and william mccrory goes to work. i didn t come into prison with a staff canteen job. i worked my way right on through the ranks.
he says his job as a band tour bus driver led him to drug addiction, and it was all downhill from there. it s a lot faster pace on that west coast than it is for a little country boy from florida. so it was a little different world out there. during his first prison term, mccrory was less than a model inmate. the first couple, i smoked me a little reefer, drank me some wine, didn t care, didn t make a difference. i just did what i wanted to. this time, i tried to do it the way it should be done. the staff looks at you a little different than when you re not an idiot than just all the time getting in trouble. mccrory has another reason for wanting to stay out of trouble. two years ago, he found out he had a 16-year-old son. his mother kept him. he had when we separated, she was just a couple months pregnant. i didn t know. she was so tiny. you couldn t tell. and i didn t have any idea. so, she kept him hid for 16
are you proud of him? oh, absolutely. for him to just graduate from high school and not be in in any trouble is enough for me to be proud. if he d have took after me, way different road. and that comes from his mama, a lot of that does. his son, who has just scheduled another visit, has inspired mccrory to be a better role model. he currently has a nonpaying prison job as an orderly but today is applying for a much better job as a clerk in the staff canteen. how much does it pay? $75 a month. it just keeps the pressure off your family from having to send so much money. cuts down on what they send. mccrory must interview for the job with the institutional classification team. you got past experience working at a canteen? yes, sir, at county correctional institution. how long did you work in the canteen? one year, sir. did you have any problems while you were doing that? no, sir, no problem. you will be working with staff directly. it s a good job. you need to h
that s all that matters. that s the way i look at it. you re absolutely right. just like i todd them are ain t nothing more important than visit with you. we try to leave the fences outside our visit. it s about me and him. it s not about prison. it is just about what we have. what what we re trying to do. you should have a break in a couple of months. i sure hope so, come back up here. right. best part of the visit was to be with him, talk to him, give him a hug, tell him i love him, hear him say he loves me. you be careful. i m looking forward to the next visit. but i m also looking forward to being out on the street with him and do things for him and with him i couldn t do when he was a kid. fishing, hunting. playing baseball, softball. things we didn t get to do when he was a child because of some of decisions i made to land me in some places i probably shouldn t be. i m just fortunate, i m lucky. god blessed me with a good kid. i love him. that s my heart. mccrory