coming up next on lockup: extended stay, the shakedown of the year takes everyone by surprise. keep your head down. not going to tell you no more. and while some inmates get thrown into ad-seg, antonio easter hopes to get out. farmers. 96% of them are doing rain-fed agriculture. they re all competing with each other; they re all making very low margins, making enough to survive, but not enough to get out of poverty. so kickstart designs low cost irrigation pumps enabling them to grow high value crops throughout the year so you can make a lot of money. it s all very well to have a whole lot of small innovations, but unless we can scale it up enough to where we are talking about millions of farmers, we re not going to solve their biggest challenge. this is precisely where the kind of finance that citi is giving us, is enabling us to scale up on a much more rapid pace. when we talk to the farmers and ask them what s the most important thing.
b dorm, checked under easter s pillow, picked it up, there was a knife there. do you have any written questions for mr. jackson? yes, sir. officer jackson, was inmate antonio easter present when you confiscated conducted the shakedown of his living area? no. officer jackson, were you aware that you were conducting the shakedown of the living area of antonio easter? yes. officer jackson, do you know the s.o.p. states that an inmate, if can be made available, must be present when that inmate s property is being shaken shook down? no, i didn t need him there. i suspected there was something in the area. i continued on with it. i already found some contraband in the area.
bottom rack, do their thing, but i wouldn t go for it. they all be shut out. you know what i m saying? about a week and a half ago, police told me they found a knife up under my pillow. you know what i m saying? i m just like [ bleep ] they re just trying to set me up. they ve been trying to get me for the longest. right now, you know, so it ain t my knife. so they can t say it s mine. you know what i m saying? what would be the worst case scenario for you? well, three years, three years in lockup and possibly a 15-year sentence. still proclaiming his innocence, easter eagerly anticipates his disciplinary hearing. probably never in life find one of my knives. not to say i don t you know, i wouldn t have one. but you would never find one of my knives because if i gave my knife up, i m going to use it and ain t nobody going to know about it, see. and then, two, in my position
and where i m staying at, being bd, if i go anywhere, nine times out of ten, you re going to have another bd following me or another bd with me. by me having the rank that i have, it won t happen, you know what i m saying? carrying a knife. that s what i got security for. you know what i m saying? like y all got security, we got security, too. you know what i m saying? i understand that. if i got a knife, i got to have it on me. are you inmate antonio easter, black, 186614? yes, sir. you ve been written a disciplinary by correctional officer robert jackson, rule violation 5207, possession of a weapon. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you re about to give in the case is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? i do. mr. jackson, what happened? when i searched the back of
that s why i decided to check his bed. before the knife, i found a glass bottle, a dice, gang paraphernalia. cassette tape. all right. antonio, you are correct in as much as you can t get a criminal charge for this. but, however, this is an administrative hearing. you can be held responsible for that weapon being in your living area. it was in your assigned living area. therefore, i m going to find you guilty of the charge. take him back there and put him back in his cell, mr. jackson. is it what facts are you saying based on the fact that mr. jackson told me he found it on your bed, under your pillow. i don t see no reason for him to lie on you. do you see a reason no, no, no, no, i don t doubt that. but the reason to doubt is that i wasn t in the cell and that anybody got access to that area. this is laying on top of my bed, under my pillow. under your pillow. under my pillow? so you believe i leave my a knife under my pillow?