yeah. i feel like i i ain t never talked about ias a kid, i was obably about 12, that was the first time i ever thought you really loved me. other than that i ain t never had i don t know what the hell love is. i rather not have shoes, clothes, all that materialistic [ bleep ] and just have my mom and my dad. that s just how i feel. i wish i would have had my mom and my dad. and i feel like i would have been all right. i would have had some morals and some principles. you know what i m saying? that s why i m so angry. because of stuff i never had. moments later edmonds jr. brings up his father s recent relationship with another woman and her young daughter. and you on the phone telling her you love her i wasn t even talking to her. you love her and her child. i write you every day hold, hold. i m trying to finish. ? no, no. because you ain t going to go through all that. i write you every day through the work days. and every letter i write you i tell you i love
incarcerated at the louisville metro department of corrections jail. most are working on their cases, hoping to clear their names and go free. today, however, two inmates, brian edmonds jr., and his father, brian sr., will attempt to clear long-lingering emotional wounds. edmonds jr., who could be sentenced to death if he s found guilty, asked jail officials to allow him a final visit with his father, who will soon transfer to state prison to start a 30-year sentence. the request was approved. it really might be the last time i get to see him for a while. what s up, baby? what s happening? hug. what s going on? what s going on with you? well, let me tell you something before we start the conversation. i already told them from the get-go, i don t blame you for
here? it is all right, man, all right sometimes. sometimes it is all right. it is stressful, not being out there, you know what i mean. what i really learned is i need to get out there to my son. that is the only thing that is really stressing me out. because i want to seriously be a father figure. because i know what it feels like not 206 to have a father, i don t want to send him through the same thing. you didn t have a father? i had one, but in and out. right now i m following in his foot steps. when is the last time you actually got to touch your child? i ain t. you never touched your child? huh-uh, so i am tying to stay sean, trying to calm down. it has been several months since brian edmonds has touched or spoken to his son, brian jr., who is incarcerated a floor below him. when he first got locked up,
i need a different environment. that is why i am always fighting, and people always want that drama with me. it is the kind of drama the jail doesn t want. staff has compiled a list of keep-froms, or inmates that must be kept away from edmonds jr. this list of potential enemies makes it hard for the jail to house him. brian edmonds, he was recently put on ad-min seg. it is junior. once a month, they continue to conduct a meeting to discuss the inmates housed throughout the jail. the purpose of this meeting is to make sure we have the right people in the single cells. single cells is a premium up item in the department.
we used to come out and visit together. but we had an argument, and they put keep-aways on us. so i just want him to know that i m sorry that i ain t ever been there, because i know that is the reason why he is going through what he is going through. so i m basically apologizing for not being there. the two men may not have much time to reconcile. edmonds jr. is about to leave the jail to serve a 30-year sentence. edmonds jr. could get the death penalty if found guilty. when told of his father s apology, he was surprised. it is just something hard for me to believe. i will be nineteen this year, that is the most mature pa ever heard my daddy said. i ain t never heard him take responsibility. that is unbelievable, that is a major move in his life. making me feel like he do kind of give a darn right now. i would just love to hear him say man, i blame myself for what