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Anything today. the delay in his ruling meant jones would have to remain in jail until the board could reach a decision. come on, sir. i don t sleep tonight. i ll probably toss and turn. feel a little more unsure than i did at first. i just got to really have faith in my friends right now. got to have faith in the prayers. oh, man. the final decision on jones came during a break in our shooting. when we returned to tampa, there was a new inmate in jones bunk and jones himself was back at the noah house, a free man, but very much aware that he was still on parole and one slip away from going back to prison. when the people told me that i would be getting out that day, i was so full of joy i wanted to scream but i had to hold my composure, you know. i even wanted to ask her out to dinner. i thought, oh, she might take that the wrong way. ....
Neighborhood goes through that way, back and forth, back and forth. children go to school back and forth from school that way. i see grown folks going through that way all the time. a police officer saw jones cut through the hole and cited him. when he discovered jones was on parole, he arrested him. out of all these years that i was on drugs, i was finally clean, doing good, and all of a sudden, bam, back in jail. it s like i hurt my mama again, you know. the trespassing charges were quickly dropped, but because jones was on parole at the time of his arrest he would have to be detained in jail until the parole commission completed its own investigation. we joined him on the morning of his hearing. on the day that he was going to his hearing he was very nervous and rightfully so because he was going to find out whether he was going to go back to prison for a few years or go back on the street. mr. jones, you can come on in. ....
at the hearing jones would again be confronted by his arresting officer who said his trespassing violation might not be as minor as it seems. a majority of the people that commit the larger crimes are committing the smaller crimes. and if you take those individuals that are committing the smaller crimes, and you put them in jail for those, they re not out to commit the bigger ones. his charges were armed robbery multiple times. what s the old saying, if you do the crime, you ve got to do the time. but jones had his supporters at the hearing, as well. including lolita brown. his supervisor at the noah house. we need him to be back at work, working and doing his groups. mr. jones, it states you violated condition 7 by failing to obey all laws, ordinances or statutory conditions of conditional release. and at this time we re going to take testimony from officer fricks. i was on the west side of the ....
since his release, jones has been enjoying the simple pleasures of freedom. like getting to choose his own clothes. i like to match my clothes. whatever shirt i got i like my shoes that same color. i had these shoes first to go with a shirt that i had and it was these shoes that made me go out and pick the color suit that i got. ain t that something? jones is not taking his second chance at freedom for granted. he gives himself a daily reminder of the shortcut that almost sent him back to prison. i purposely ride my bike that way not to go through it, i go around the long way. but even going around the long way i can see that place. and it s still open. there s still a big old hole in the fence there. people going in and out of it. i said, well, they don t never have to worry about me doing it no more. you know, i just know now i can t do what everybody else does. ....
You. jones was eventually paroled and found a place to live and work at the noah house, a residential drug treatment program in tampa, florida. one day he took a shortcut on his way home from work in a hole in a fence he was arrested and sent back to jail for trespassing. when they handcuffed me, as soon as they put them handcuffs on me, i cannot lie, you know, much as i been through, i didn t think i d do but tears start coming to my eyes. dropped, jones still faced the possibility of returning to prison. if the parole board determined that his arrest and admission that he did, in fact, take the short cut, violated the conditions of his parole. jones expected to learn his fate after a hearing with the parole examiner. so regarding my finding in this hearing i m going to defer them for a period of ten days in an effort to look everything over. i m going to make a recommendation after i come up with my decision. i m not going to recommend ....