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The Corridor
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THE CORRIDOR shows the inner-workings and challenges of San Francisco’s Five Keys Charter School − the first high school of its kind in the United States that provides incarcerated adults the opportunity to earn a high school diploma to prepare them for successful reintegration into their communities. Designed upon the premise that the key to reintegration is education, Five Keys Charter School strives to create alternatives to the revolving door of incarceration. Enrollment is mandatory for all incarcerated adults who never received a high school diploma. In addition to classes that range from algebra to civics, the school also offers lessons in art and meditation. For many of the students, the experience validates their humanity. As these adults begin to think about turning their lives around, THE CORRIDOR invites viewers to ask: is education the first step along the pathway to restorative justice?
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) | Reviewed by Margaret M. Reed, Riley-Hickingbotham Library, Ouachita Baptist University
"When the San Francisco County Jail launched its Five Keys Charter School, it was more than an experiment. It has become a model for restorative justice.
The Corridor takes viewers down the halls of this unique learning environment – the first high school in the nation built inside an adult jail – and explores the enormous effort required to make it work. Inmates there who do not hold a high school diploma are automatically enrolled. They participate in a holistic learning experience designed to prepare them for re-entry into society – essential academic subjects alongside vocational training and group counseling. This educational approach has translated into lower recidivism and inspired correctional facilities throughout the country to make charter high schools a centerpiece of their rehabilitation programming.
Beyond detailing the school’s operation, The Corridor effectively captures the human impact of educating the imprisoned. From multiple vantage points – students, teachers, and correctional officers – the film probes the root causes of incarceration and their unrelenting grip. It profiles those who triumph as well as those who relapse.
Highly recommended for all libraries, The Corridor is an excellent resource for courses in education, criminal justice, and sociology."
The Boston Globe | Peter Keough, Globe Correspondent
"The Corridor does not offer a rosy picture of the program or make sweeping claims of success. It does offer compelling profiles of those involved — teachers and corrections officers as well as students. [...] Near the end of The Corridor is a metaphorical shot — prisoners in orange jumpsuits separated by bars from the black graduation gowns they are about to don. Their lessons in overcoming hopelessness have paid off."
Citation
Main credits
O'Connell, Richard (filmmaker)
Wunderlich, Annelise (filmmaker)
Wunderlich, Annelise (photographer)
Peckham, Linda (film producer)
Peckham, Linda (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Cinematography, Annelise Wunderlich [and 5 others]; composer, Joel St. Julien.
Distributor subjects
Criminal Justice; Restorative Justice; Sociology; Education; Human Rights; American StudiesKeywords
Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, Sociology, Education, Human Rights, American Studies; "The Corridor"; GOOD DOCS
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edition of America Reframed
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with truly California.
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The Corridor
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Major funding was provided by
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the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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and the John D and Catherine
T MacArthur Foundation.
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Additional funding was provided
by the Wyncote Foundation
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and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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(police radio fades in and out)
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(bus engine roars)
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(somber music)
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(inmates chattering)
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habit of making bad decisions
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for quite some time.
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I believe that I can make up
another recipe for success
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that hadn\'t been made yet
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without getting caught.
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I\'m very street smart,
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but I don\'t know how to live life.
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I don\'t know how to keep a house.
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I don\'t know how to have,
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you know, go to work every day.
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I don\'t know how to do all
that without lots of drugs.
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Good morning, gentlemen.
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Please prepare your students
for deployments of class
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in the next five minutes.
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All right, thank you.
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(everyone talking at once)
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(inmates chattering)
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be behind your ears,
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not in your hands.
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Tuck in all tee shirts.
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so I can see at the top of your socks.
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What\'s tucked in there?
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what are you bringing all
this stuff to school for?
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and we\'re doing this job within the jail,
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but this is not the
job that we want to do.
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We think that it\'s important for the state
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to do a better job with
educating its young
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and providing better services
or resources for people.
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But, since this is the
situation we can\'t forget about
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the men and the women that
are already incarcerated.
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here you go.
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We have some very good classes to offer.
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This semester, we\'re doing
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how to start your own business,
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a bike repair class,
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we\'re doing
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a food and safety culinary
job certificate program.
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Got a lot of good things going on here.
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If you decide that you
don\'t want to go to school
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or you don\'t want a program,
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the consequences unfortunately are that
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you will be placed on restricted housing.
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So they want you to sign up for something.
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fully functioning high school
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and a high school diploma to
adults that are incarcerated.
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They come to the education
corridor to begin their journey,
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receiving a diploma.
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Our students are with us
anywhere from days to years.
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So they\'re awaiting trial;
they have not been sentenced.
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Some of them will be released,
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some of them the charges will be dropped.
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Others, there\'ll be transferred over
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to the penitentiary to the prison.
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But in the meantime,
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they are in the jail
with us, being educated.
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want to do their time;
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they don\'t want to participate in school.
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Realistically, we\'re in a position
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that we\'re not asking inmates,
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we\'re telling them to do something.
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And then we have to deal
with a lot of backlash
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from them going to school.
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basis, in this place
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with the very
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essence of government.
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that we actually do want to
be treated as individuals.
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The fact that you\'re sitting
in a classroom right now,
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is evidence that it\'s
not the same everywhere
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and that you\'re being treated differently.
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you gon get disciplined
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the list around saying,
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do you want to go to school or do you not?
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Ma, it would be (beep) short,
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probably be like 10 people, a class.
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funded for this program.
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Then what would you have?
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They wouldn\'t care whether we was here now
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because it\'s money.
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For every head in here, I bet you.
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It\'s money for it.
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But like he said, I don\'t have a problem
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with being here learning education,
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but whose education is it really?
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What did we go back to?
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Most inmates in here,
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we don\'t have nothing to do with the 1692,
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you know, because man, it
ain\'t, it ain\'t the truth.
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It ain\'t the real, it\'s his story.
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It\'s not the story, you know, his story.
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young generation will rebel
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just because they don\'t have a choice.
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The fact that Five Keys
just put them in school
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and told them that\'s what they have to do.
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Being incarcerated and going to school,
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it\'s very difficult.
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You have to, it takes a strong,
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very strong mind and mentality.
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When you put, put in a
situation like this, people did,
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they haven\'t went to school;
they\'re scared of school.
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A lot of those guys are
scared to be in an environment
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where other gangbangers will see
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that they don\'t really
know what\'s four plus four.
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They don\'t read well,
and that\'s a weakness.
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Maybe if I was younger, when
they first put me in school,
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I probably would\'ve, I
would\'ve fought them hard.
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I thought I knew everything.
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And here I am with no marketable skills.
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I definitely feel like
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I\'m at the bottom of every opportunity.
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(car driving)
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(inmates chattering)
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(metal jingling)
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didn\'t give me any choice.
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I woke up one morning and I was in school.
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I wasn\'t here I was here for-
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I wasn\'t mad about it.
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I would\'ve probably opted for it anyway,
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because I\'ve always wanted
to further my education.
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(zipper unzipping)
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I\'ll do it for right
here, put the point here,
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and there like that.
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on the corner, all right?
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mom was a heroin addict.
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They took me when I was eight months old.
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I was in foster care till I was five,
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and then I was adopted.
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And then throughout school,
I started causing problems,
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like little problems in class.
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And so they started with,
they put me on Ritalin
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when I was like seven
years old, to calm me down.
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My behavior was a wreck.
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I was all over the place all the time.
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So I started failing.
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tell you guys a secret.
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Don\'t draw a line, shade it,
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do the shade first,
it\'ll come out perfect.
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but I was doing drugs.
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I\'ve been on drugs for 20 years.
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I\'m 31.
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through the drawings,
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you\'ll get better.
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You\'ll see.
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because I know that if I go out there
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at this time and I use again,
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I\'m probably going to end up
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being back in here for
the rest of my life.
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from the time I was eight years old,
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up until the present day,
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they found themselves in the system.
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So, I always have just
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never wanted to be in a place like this.
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But I don\'t allow those feelings
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or those frustrations or that anger
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to prevent me from doing
the job that I need to do;
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the job that\'s in front of
me the job that\'s very real.
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I\'m thankful to have two parents
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that raised me with a
specific goal in mind,
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go to college and try to
find some type of work that,
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you can help yourself and
help others at the same time.
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But education was key in my household.
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1.2, the power to rule.
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We\'re gonna begin there.
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I\'ll start off with the reading.
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We\'ll pass it around.
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I\'ll be putting notes
on the board as well.
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So the power to rule can be
gained or lost in many ways.
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And now like I\'ve been here teaching
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for Five Keys for 11 years.
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Filled with tales of violent overthrow,
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or the violent overthrow of...
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Cause they, when I was in
there today, they said,
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Captain Paulson is writing a poem.
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And I said, oh I was like,
we\'re reciting a poem?
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I thought I was getting a speech.
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what were you gonna address?
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countrymen, lend me your ear.
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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person coming into custody
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has a fifth grade reading level.
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The key to reintegration is education.
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In 2002, the sheriff introduced
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a radical concept for rehabilitation,
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which is let\'s do an entire charter school
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inside of the jail.
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First ones in the state,
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first ones in the nation
to really do it this way.
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Once I\'m not worried about food,
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I\'m not worried about clothing,
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I\'m not worried about shelter,
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I\'m not worried about
any of my basic needs,
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I can start thinking
about my social needs.
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And then I can start
thinking about myself.
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There are deputies who
don\'t buy into this change.
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Why would we do this?
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Why would we make more work for ourselves?
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You\'re charged with bringing order.
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There is the teacher in
the Five Keys school,
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whole bunch of civilians.
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And who\'s going to keep
those civilians safe, who?
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Greg?
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the thin line of order.
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(police radio sounding)
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(police attendance taking)
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you\'re going to tell your inmates,
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that they need to use the
restroom before going to class.
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They\'re not going to have any restroom
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for the first half hour.
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No inmates should be coming to the door.
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That\'s an officer safety thing,
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so the deputies will decide
who goes in and when.
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Anything else?
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Take care, have a good watch, be safe.
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(footsteps)
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The old philosophy was,
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oh, just lock he inmates behind the bars.
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Run the jail by the strictest of rules.
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about this already, right?
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289
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that are very lenient,
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very pro inmate.
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(footsteps, handcuffs jingling)
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I would hope that most of our deputies
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fall in the middle of that spectrum.
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down to the Five Keys school
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and do the presentation
to the new teachers.
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Jersey city, I got beaten up.
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It was a fag-bashing.
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I went to the local police station.
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The guy behind the desk said,
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if I had a nickel for every fag
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that got beaten up in this city,
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I\'d be a rich man.
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I decided that a peace officer
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should stand for something
better than that.
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And the only way that I
could enable that change,
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was to be part of the change myself.
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(footsteps)
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working with educators.
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That\'s, what I think makes
this place very unique.
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So now we\'re on to classroom safety.
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Deputies are in charge of everything
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that\'s happening in this corridor.
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If you\'re having a class
and you\'re lecturing
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and they swing the door open
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and they cuff up three of your students
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and they\'d take them out,
that\'s not our business.
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They\'re here to keep us safe
and to keep the students safe.
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And this is your duress button right here.
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And there should always be a clear path.
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When you\'re teaching
to your duress button,
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you need to be able to hit that button.
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If you fumble the ball
on one of these things,
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while you\'re teaching, that
could be your jail clearance.
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Don\'t wear solid blue,
solid red, and never orange.
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And the cell phones, no joke,
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your cell phone gets away
from you in this jail,
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you\'re done; you\'re not coming back.
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If this lock gets away from you,
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that\'s another one, you\'re done.
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So here we have hand sanitizer.
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We got a guy that took
this out of the classroom.
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This is what he said to me,
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Ms. Bravo, I didn\'t know
this was in my underwear.
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No joke.
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They will drink this.
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They will make a fireball with this.
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Any questions on that?
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students from various gangs,
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are there any high risk,
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potentially violent students in class?
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343
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All of \'em.
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This is a jail.
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This is a jail and
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in every single classroom,
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you have every single type of crime.
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We have triple murder
down to dealing marijuana.
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we have approximately 22 gangs.
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white gang in the jail.
352
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So their symbol is the big
WP, white power, the swastika.
353
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Eighty eight; that\'s their number.
354
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We have some guys here, tattooed
in the back of their heads.
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Okay then we have in
Norteños, they\'re red.
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They\'re the mainstream.
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They\'re sprinkled throughout the corridor.
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Big problems with them
right now in the jail.
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So movement; movement is the most,
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I don\'t want to say dangerous,
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but challenging part of the day, always.
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So movement is the time where
they\'re bringing them in,
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from the pods into the education corridor.
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(chattering)
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line it up for school,
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line it up for school.
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(chattering)
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member in the wrong classroom
369
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and we have, it goes off.
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just went back inside.
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unpredictable and fights occur.
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It could be anything from
major gang stuff on the street
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to you got a better sticker
on your paper than I did.
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You moved the table while
I was trying to write.
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We\'ve gotten through a few
semesters without a fight.
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It\'s just, they happen.
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It\'s disturbing.
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(door opening)
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380
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If you gotta use the bathroom,
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come on out and do it now.
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Two at a time.
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384
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an effective and efficient classroom,
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I have to have a good relationship
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with the majority of the
deputies that are there.
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(footsteps, metal jingling)
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I\'ve had fights in my classroom,
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the deputies they rush in
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and they exercise the amount of force
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that they feel is necessary.
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And depending on your perspective,
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you might think that it\'s an
abuse of power and authority,
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or you might not.
395
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It\'s a painful moment because
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there\'s nothing that you can do.
397
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(police radio sounding)
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(chains clanking)
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400
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Easton.
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Jones.
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(somber music)
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place day after day,
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week after week, month after
month, year after year,
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as a teacher, as an officer,
406
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when you work in an environment like that,
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like you are doing time
to a certain degree.
408
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(electronic door shuts)
409
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(somber music)
410
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411
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it\'s just not instantaneous.
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As I look back, probably
when I was 11 years old,
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was when I got off track.
414
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Once my father left the house,
I probably became, well,
415
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I actually became a
lot more undisciplined.
416
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I made a contract with
myself when I was 11 and 13,
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that I would be in the
streets, selling drugs,
418
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carrying weapons, that I
would be a success at it,
419
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that I wouldn\'t get killed doing it,
420
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and I was going to do
that because the money,
421
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the girls, the cars,
422
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the shiny things on it
really intrigued me.
423
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It was very detrimental
to me educationally,
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and as you can see now,
425
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the effects are still lingering.
426
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(melancholic music)
427
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(inmates chattering)
428
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even realize that I was
429
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going in and out as much as I was.
430
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I had no clue how many charters,
431
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how many arrests I\'d actually had.
432
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The more drugs I did,
the harder drugs I did,
433
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the harder my crimes got, the
more twisted my crimes got.
434
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And I never did anything
violent, nothing like that.
435
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But my crimes got smarter
and smarter and smarter
436
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to a point where, don\'t
give me a computer.
437
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438
00:22:03.140 --> 00:22:03.973
439
00:22:03.973 --> 00:22:05.977
contaminating, you know what I mean?
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job you\'ve ever had.
441
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442
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(girls laughing)
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444
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445
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446
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because I was an addict and
I was out on the street.
447
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I hate it.
448
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I hate it cause that\'s not what I want.
449
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I want to have relationship with my kids.
450
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I have six of them,
451
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two of which I\'ve never
seen, except for at birth.
452
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I have a Facebook relationship
with my kids and that\'s it.
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And they know if I\'m not there,
if they don\'t hear from me,
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they know I\'m in jail.
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(somber music)
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457
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that we were looking at yesterday,
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the one on the Constitution.
459
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I believe Emily, you were
reading this stuff yesterday.
460
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We talked about the fourth amendment.
461
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So the fourth amendment says that you have
462
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a right against unreasonable
searches or seizures, right?
463
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464
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Okay so is it legal for to someone else
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to search your stuff
besides law enforcement?
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467
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So we have laws, people break laws, right?
468
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It happens; it\'s not supposed to happen,
469
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but sometimes our government breaks laws
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or they violate our rights.
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And so that\'s why it\'s
important for us to know them
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and be aware of those things.
473
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Okay, so I wanted to highlight that.
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And then the last one,
475
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the main story that they
talked about was signing in,
476
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the new education law or a
new education policy, right?
477
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Go ahead.
478
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at seventh grade, okay?
479
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I\'ve only been to high school
here, you know what I mean?
480
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It\'s like.
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come from these neighborhoods
482
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and they go to schools that
haven\'t been funded properly,
483
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many of them have left school.
484
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Some will say have been pushed out,
485
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some will say dropped out.
486
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In either seventh grade
or eighth grade, or,
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you know, their early high school years.
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We\'re dealing with a population,
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largely black and Latino,
490
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that has had negative
academic experiences.
491
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I mean what do you expect
is going to happen,
492
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when you\'re sending kids to schools that
493
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aren\'t adequate for educating them.
494
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They\'re adults, they\'ve grown up,
495
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you just cast them aside,
you just ignore them,
496
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you just leave them locked
away in facilities like this.
497
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So what things in society
do you feel that government
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needs to focus on the most?
499
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500
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501
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It becomes a systemic problem that robs
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a segment of the population
of their potential.
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(vehicles driving)
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(quiet slow music)
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is about hopelessness.
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And we\'re going to talk
about hopelessness today
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because when you go back out there,
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people are gonna put, already
put a strike against you.
509
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They see if you\'ve been incarcerated.
510
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You have been in a bad situation.
511
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They don\'t even know
what your situation was,
512
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but they had already labeled you.
513
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And as a result of labeling you,
514
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it\'s pushing your self esteem,
your self worth further down.
515
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What are some of the things that you do
516
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to sabotage yourself?
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sometimes like really bad,
518
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like my boyfriends or whoever.
519
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I mean, and as much as
I talk bad about them,
520
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I\'m talking like 20
times worse about myself.
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Like in my head at the same time.
522
00:26:12.010 --> 00:26:12.930
523
00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:14.530
things from these classes
524
00:26:14.530 --> 00:26:15.363
and from these groups,
525
00:26:15.363 --> 00:26:17.440
when I started coming
to jail in this city,
526
00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:18.670
and every time I came in,
527
00:26:18.670 --> 00:26:20.843
I learned a little bit of something else.
528
00:26:22.290 --> 00:26:23.570
Going into the math class at first,
529
00:26:23.570 --> 00:26:25.090
I\'m like, yeah, I am still smart.
530
00:26:25.090 --> 00:26:27.070
I\'m not a failure; I can do
this; I can do something.
531
00:26:27.070 --> 00:26:29.323
I don\'t know what it is,
but I can do something.
532
00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:31.944
533
00:26:31.944 --> 00:26:32.777
(laughter)
534
00:26:32.777 --> 00:26:33.710
Oh, it\'s so bad.
535
00:26:33.710 --> 00:26:35.000
536
00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:36.960
It boosts your self
esteem when you realize
537
00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:38.270
that you can do something, you know,
538
00:26:38.270 --> 00:26:40.650
that you forgot that you
could do, maybe in school
539
00:26:40.650 --> 00:26:43.083
or that you could have
healthy relationships,
540
00:26:43.083 --> 00:26:44.640
or any of that.
541
00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:46.290
542
00:26:46.290 --> 00:26:47.257
I\'ve seen it all.
543
00:26:48.129 --> 00:26:51.712
(building uplifting music)
544
00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:03.800
545
00:27:03.800 --> 00:27:07.503
experience with computers
in the past, in general.
546
00:27:07.503 --> 00:27:09.753
547
00:27:11.830 --> 00:27:13.430
548
00:27:14.610 --> 00:27:15.443
549
00:27:17.085 --> 00:27:18.680
uh,
550
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:20.563
six and five.
551
00:27:25.580 --> 00:27:27.730
misstepped on something.
552
00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:29.253
That\'s an easy fix though.
553
00:27:31.750 --> 00:27:33.760
554
00:27:33.760 --> 00:27:36.320
bring back vocational programs,
555
00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:39.998
tax millionaires to fund,
ooh that\'s a good one,
556
00:27:39.998 --> 00:27:43.940
tax millionaires to fund more technology.
557
00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:46.410
a ways and make good
558
00:27:46.410 --> 00:27:49.660
legal money and actually
have a legitimate job.
559
00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:52.310
560
00:27:52.310 --> 00:27:54.263
and real time information as you can.
561
00:27:56.982 --> 00:27:59.370
people look at us as just
562
00:27:59.370 --> 00:28:02.190
being nothing or throwing away our lives.
563
00:28:02.190 --> 00:28:03.950
And that kind of thing.
564
00:28:03.950 --> 00:28:05.710
No we\'re not; we\'re still human,
565
00:28:05.710 --> 00:28:09.580
no matter what we do to break
the law and commit crimes,
566
00:28:09.580 --> 00:28:14.234
we still have something in
that state, something good,
567
00:28:14.234 --> 00:28:15.067
you know what I mean?
568
00:28:15.067 --> 00:28:18.460
So we expect or appreciate
somebody who sees that,
569
00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.410
who sees past this.
570
00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:25.337
(quiet calm music)
571
00:28:28.247 --> 00:28:31.247
(guards chattering)
572
00:28:32.292 --> 00:28:35.209
(quiet calm music)
573
00:28:39.021 --> 00:28:41.339
574
00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:42.441
575
00:28:42.441 --> 00:28:43.274
576
00:28:43.274 --> 00:28:44.830
577
00:28:44.830 --> 00:28:47.410
how we talked about
578
00:28:47.410 --> 00:28:49.812
the elements of contrast,
579
00:28:49.812 --> 00:28:53.093
and then that\'s how you know
where this is halfway up.
580
00:28:53.093 --> 00:28:53.926
581
00:28:53.926 --> 00:28:55.768
582
00:28:55.768 --> 00:28:56.653
Good work.
583
00:28:59.070 --> 00:29:02.860
584
00:29:02.860 --> 00:29:06.403
My GPA, I almost have all A\'s.
585
00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:11.083
It makes me sad sometimes
when I look back,
586
00:29:12.140 --> 00:29:14.290
but I can\'t focus on
587
00:29:14.290 --> 00:29:17.260
the bottom of the hole
where I was stuck at
588
00:29:17.260 --> 00:29:19.333
because my family needs me.
589
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.137
(phone buttons clicking)
590
00:29:28.134 --> 00:29:33.134
The hardest part of being
incarcerated is being a parent,
591
00:29:33.190 --> 00:29:37.250
where there\'s distance, where
I can\'t personally intervene,
592
00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:38.550
especially with my son.
593
00:29:38.550 --> 00:29:39.410
Wow.
594
00:29:39.410 --> 00:29:42.420
His brother got shot
a couple of years ago,
595
00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:44.860
just as he was turning 16.
596
00:29:44.860 --> 00:29:48.660
And now those people who shot his brother,
597
00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:50.733
they know who he is.
598
00:29:52.100 --> 00:29:55.260
That\'s why I need to be
out there with my son
599
00:29:55.260 --> 00:29:56.870
before it\'s too late.
600
00:29:56.870 --> 00:29:58.529
Well, you know, I believe in you.
601
00:29:58.529 --> 00:29:59.590
I love you.
602
00:29:59.590 --> 00:30:01.420
You know, I\'m your biggest fan.
603
00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:05.760
And my wife told me it is your
fault too, and I know this,
604
00:30:07.434 --> 00:30:09.453
you know, I\'m supposed to be there.
605
00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:17.100
Everyone makes their own choice.
606
00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:22.123
But, when you\'re born into bad choices,
607
00:30:23.080 --> 00:30:27.040
when your great-grandfather
didn\'t have so many options
608
00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:31.532
where the bad choices were
sometimes the best options,
609
00:30:31.532 --> 00:30:33.063
it becomes tradition.
610
00:30:34.534 --> 00:30:37.117
(somber music)
611
00:30:51.190 --> 00:30:52.660
612
00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:54.170
We all have different situations.
613
00:30:54.170 --> 00:30:55.890
614
00:30:55.890 --> 00:30:56.723
615
00:30:56.723 --> 00:30:57.983
616
00:30:57.983 --> 00:30:59.230
and now they\'re taller than me,
617
00:30:59.230 --> 00:31:03.560
now and so, but they
are open to, you know,
618
00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:05.100
knowing me and all that,
you know, and knowing,
619
00:31:05.100 --> 00:31:06.670
but I don\'t have no idea where to start
620
00:31:06.670 --> 00:31:09.771
or on any of it, you know what I mean?
621
00:31:09.771 --> 00:31:12.420
going to want to be,
622
00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:15.270
even Bethany, in your situation,
623
00:31:15.270 --> 00:31:19.347
what you end up is being a
backbone parent to adults, right?
624
00:31:19.347 --> 00:31:20.180
625
00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:22.610
to get there, right?
626
00:31:22.610 --> 00:31:25.750
It\'s just we\'re parents,
you know, forever.
627
00:31:25.750 --> 00:31:26.583
628
00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:29.197
629
00:31:32.550 --> 00:31:36.653
is anybody willing to share
all or part of what they wrote?
630
00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:39.420
What activities, behaviors,
631
00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:41.730
addictions, problems, in
a period of my parenting,
632
00:31:41.730 --> 00:31:43.470
alcoholism, drugs, going out,
633
00:31:43.470 --> 00:31:45.830
anger and violence towards their father,
634
00:31:45.830 --> 00:31:47.480
other men not knowing what to do.
635
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:49.900
What did I do really well as a parent,
636
00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:51.450
I gave my parents and ex-husbands
637
00:31:51.450 --> 00:31:53.240
and other guardians custody.
638
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:54.653
I\'m learning to parent now.
639
00:31:55.540 --> 00:31:58.660
What five words best describe
you, what you were like
640
00:31:58.660 --> 00:32:00.950
as a parent before you
went to jail or prison.
641
00:32:00.950 --> 00:32:02.330
Absent, dysfunctional, ashamed,
642
00:32:02.330 --> 00:32:04.340
depressed, fearful, and selfish.
643
00:32:04.340 --> 00:32:06.343
644
00:32:08.050 --> 00:32:08.890
645
00:32:08.890 --> 00:32:12.080
at how we get from where we are now, okay,
646
00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:14.210
to getting our kids up here,
647
00:32:14.210 --> 00:32:16.760
what we want for our kids
when they grow up, right?
648
00:32:19.900 --> 00:32:21.850
have to forgive yourself
649
00:32:21.850 --> 00:32:23.490
and you have to forgive people.
650
00:32:23.490 --> 00:32:26.640
And when you\'re in recovery
and I never understood how,
651
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:28.360
what forgiving yourself was about
652
00:32:28.360 --> 00:32:29.810
or what forgiving your parents was about
653
00:32:29.810 --> 00:32:30.750
for the things that they did,
654
00:32:30.750 --> 00:32:32.550
until I sat in that parenting class.
655
00:32:34.037 --> 00:32:36.620
(somber music)
656
00:32:48.290 --> 00:32:50.760
657
00:32:50.760 --> 00:32:53.420
and promoted black on black crime.
658
00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:56.660
Me and my guys brought my community
659
00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:59.560
pain, drama, and genocide.
660
00:32:59.560 --> 00:33:02.420
We were young without
direction and ignorant
661
00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:04.720
to the door we were about to open.
662
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.183
I know a lot of guys who
have committed murder,
663
00:33:08.060 --> 00:33:11.233
rape, and crimes against kids.
664
00:33:12.107 --> 00:33:14.340
You need more than school.
665
00:33:14.340 --> 00:33:16.980
You\'re going to need some deep therapy,
666
00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:18.243
some counseling work.
667
00:33:20.370 --> 00:33:23.663
For me, I needed to attack
the demon within myself.
668
00:33:25.410 --> 00:33:28.510
There\'s a program in the
jails that I went through,
669
00:33:28.510 --> 00:33:31.460
that makes you take a
look at your inner self
670
00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:33.578
and face that demon.
671
00:33:33.578 --> 00:33:38.578
RSVP is a restorative
justice program that helps
672
00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:42.840
violent men identify their violence,
673
00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:44.280
that practice violence,
674
00:33:44.280 --> 00:33:46.780
that we don\'t even know that we commit.
675
00:33:46.780 --> 00:33:49.193
And the violence that
we do know we commit.
676
00:33:50.050 --> 00:33:53.799
It helps you to look into
yourself and study yourself
677
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.190
and look for ways to manage yourself.
678
00:33:58.190 --> 00:34:00.960
to come and share her story.
679
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:04.330
women are brought in,
680
00:34:04.330 --> 00:34:07.020
who have been through different traumas.
681
00:34:07.020 --> 00:34:10.440
Women who have been abused and raped,
682
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:12.849
whose sons have been murdered.
683
00:34:12.849 --> 00:34:14.923
Their husbands who have been murdered.
684
00:34:16.290 --> 00:34:19.735
685
00:34:19.735 --> 00:34:21.910
when my husband was murdered
686
00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:25.683
and I was full of vengeance and hate.
687
00:34:26.740 --> 00:34:28.570
I want to talk about Irving,
688
00:34:28.570 --> 00:34:31.740
the man who killed my husband,
689
00:34:31.740 --> 00:34:36.240
because at the time, I
put every ounce of energy
690
00:34:36.240 --> 00:34:41.240
into making people view
him as a total monster.
691
00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:45.593
During that trial, I was demonizing him.
692
00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:48.783
I hated that I did that,
693
00:34:50.070 --> 00:34:53.500
that I had done to somebody,
694
00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:57.040
what I would never want done to me.
695
00:34:57.040 --> 00:34:59.293
That I stripped somebody\'s humanity.
696
00:35:00.683 --> 00:35:02.940
697
00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:04.164
698
00:35:04.164 --> 00:35:09.140
to sit down with Irving,
699
00:35:09.140 --> 00:35:10.467
what would you say to him?
700
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.450
a difficult topic for me
701
00:35:16.450 --> 00:35:20.810
because I\'ll never be
allowed to talk to Irving
702
00:35:20.810 --> 00:35:22.803
because it\'s a death row case.
703
00:35:24.410 --> 00:35:27.540
I want to be able to tell Irving,
704
00:35:27.540 --> 00:35:32.370
I know this is not how you
wanted your life to turn out.
705
00:35:32.370 --> 00:35:34.947
I know this isn\'t where you wanted to be.
706
00:35:36.819 --> 00:35:39.736
(reflective music)
707
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:53.570
the victim goes through them,
708
00:35:53.570 --> 00:35:56.523
then get in and then do
some work on ourselves.
709
00:35:57.730 --> 00:36:00.240
And that\'s probably the hardest part.
710
00:36:00.240 --> 00:36:05.240
that you have in your life,
711
00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:10.760
and how is that impacting
your behavior in violent ways?
712
00:36:14.580 --> 00:36:18.880
hard to be vulnerable
713
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.200
and expose part of
yourself part of your life.
714
00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:26.917
You don\'t want to appear
weak, too weak or sensitive,
715
00:36:26.917 --> 00:36:30.483
When you\'re sitting next
to seven other predators,
716
00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:34.640
you don\'t want to un-predator yourself
717
00:36:34.640 --> 00:36:37.403
around other predators and become prey.
718
00:36:46.850 --> 00:36:47.683
719
00:36:50.090 --> 00:36:51.040
My name is Anthony.
720
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:56.403
When I was growing up, my
dad, when he would drink,
721
00:36:56.403 --> 00:37:00.743
he would be beat my step-mom
right where I would,
722
00:37:03.290 --> 00:37:06.050
you know, having to like
witness this stuff, right?
723
00:37:06.050 --> 00:37:08.133
And it was like, I learned how to,
724
00:37:09.070 --> 00:37:13.570
I learned how to block out my emotions
725
00:37:13.570 --> 00:37:15.223
for myself at a young age.
726
00:37:16.080 --> 00:37:17.210
And he\'d be beating me.
727
00:37:17.210 --> 00:37:19.550
I\'d just like, was able to do that,
728
00:37:19.550 --> 00:37:22.510
thing where I could switch it
off and just be numb to it.
729
00:37:22.510 --> 00:37:26.186
And when I got older,
730
00:37:26.186 --> 00:37:29.800
it made it easier for me to,
731
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.879
to hurt someone else because,
732
00:37:32.879 --> 00:37:37.450
I could shut out that emotion
733
00:37:39.810 --> 00:37:41.680
of empathy towards someone else.
734
00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:42.730
You know what I mean?
735
00:37:45.839 --> 00:37:48.422
(somber music)
736
00:38:14.442 --> 00:38:15.380
teachers here taught me
737
00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:16.930
how to get algebra, I got my GED,
738
00:38:16.930 --> 00:38:20.163
like within a couple months
of going to the school here.
739
00:38:21.490 --> 00:38:24.067
And I actually like
myself a little bit now.
740
00:38:30.968 --> 00:38:32.870
And they teach you how to
live with other people.
741
00:38:32.870 --> 00:38:35.130
They teach you your social skills.
742
00:38:35.130 --> 00:38:36.290
And they work with people,
743
00:38:36.290 --> 00:38:37.710
mostly who have been addicts
744
00:38:37.710 --> 00:38:39.960
since they were like
teenagers, really young.
745
00:38:42.140 --> 00:38:43.270
Most people dream of going to college,
746
00:38:43.270 --> 00:38:44.540
most people dream of doing whatever,
747
00:38:44.540 --> 00:38:45.850
I dream of going to this program,
748
00:38:45.850 --> 00:38:48.000
just so I can learn
how to do things right.
749
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:50.950
I have the option to go there.
750
00:38:50.950 --> 00:38:53.740
Like I\'m gonna be able to go
there and it\'s like crazy.
751
00:38:53.740 --> 00:38:56.090
So I better take it now,
while I still have it.
752
00:39:00.188 --> 00:39:03.105
(vehicles driving)
753
00:39:05.870 --> 00:39:10.280
I\'m sober. I\'m going to
program three days a week.
754
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.900
I am working two jobs and
755
00:39:12.900 --> 00:39:14.900
I\'m living in a van in Golden Gate Park.
756
00:39:15.810 --> 00:39:18.330
I\'ve been getting visits
with my youngest son.
757
00:39:18.330 --> 00:39:19.430
And he knew who I was.
758
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.543
He\'s a, he\'s definitely like my child.
759
00:39:24.543 --> 00:39:26.626
(laughs)
760
00:39:27.630 --> 00:39:30.463
My chances for not coming
back, I think are really good.
761
00:39:31.770 --> 00:39:34.460
I want to be, have a
relationship with my son
762
00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:36.270
and not have to worry about going to jail
763
00:39:36.270 --> 00:39:37.903
and having that cut off again.
764
00:39:39.730 --> 00:39:41.400
I can\'t, I can\'t at this point,
765
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.693
hope for anything more than that.
766
00:39:48.758 --> 00:39:53.730
(clock ticking, heartbeat beating)
767
00:39:53.730 --> 00:39:56.820
effort getting a diploma
768
00:39:56.820 --> 00:40:00.823
will affect the DA\'s decision
on when I\'ll get out.
769
00:40:03.750 --> 00:40:07.120
I have a, it\'s a once in
a lifetime opportunity
770
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:11.383
to show that I\'m different
and I\'m worth another chance.
771
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.110
Everybody wants to be free.
772
00:40:19.110 --> 00:40:21.060
And if you think you\'re going to get free
773
00:40:21.060 --> 00:40:22.050
every time you go to court,
774
00:40:22.050 --> 00:40:23.450
you\'ll probably panic yourself,
775
00:40:23.450 --> 00:40:25.050
because it doesn\'t work like that.
776
00:40:25.050 --> 00:40:26.363
It\'s a long process.
777
00:40:27.237 --> 00:40:30.154
(intriguing music)
778
00:40:31.390 --> 00:40:36.390
The judge and the DA, are
going over my case right now.
779
00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:41.780
And my lawyer is at the same
time trying to convince them,
780
00:40:41.810 --> 00:40:44.733
that I do deserve some leniency.
781
00:40:46.620 --> 00:40:50.320
The leniency would be
me getting out of jail
782
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:53.470
and being able to go back to my family,
783
00:40:53.470 --> 00:40:54.723
get a job and move on.
784
00:40:55.984 --> 00:40:58.660
on the line methadone-
785
00:40:58.660 --> 00:41:01.550
786
00:41:01.550 --> 00:41:06.550
to the penitentiary for a
minimum of 13 to 15 years.
787
00:41:07.240 --> 00:41:09.907
(solemn music)
788
00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:16.280
If it all goes well,
and according to plan,
789
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:18.840
and I get some leniency
from the judge and the DA,
790
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.913
immediately upon my release,
I\'ll get employment.
791
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:26.000
And most of all, make sure
I don\'t have to commit
792
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.130
any type of crime that
will hurt the community,
793
00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:33.273
and put me back inside.
794
00:41:45.870 --> 00:41:48.460
795
00:41:48.460 --> 00:41:50.150
back into your community,
796
00:41:50.150 --> 00:41:52.390
and they need skills and they need tools,
797
00:41:52.390 --> 00:41:54.620
and they need some hope,
798
00:41:54.620 --> 00:41:57.710
or they\'re just going to keep
coming back and re-offending.
799
00:41:57.710 --> 00:41:58.990
800
00:41:58.990 --> 00:42:00.110
801
00:42:00.110 --> 00:42:01.243
802
00:42:01.243 --> 00:42:02.113
803
00:42:02.113 --> 00:42:04.457
804
00:42:04.457 --> 00:42:07.060
805
00:42:07.060 --> 00:42:10.200
Look at the water conditions, all right.
806
00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.270
What do you think needs
to go inside, outside?
807
00:42:12.270 --> 00:42:14.313
What type of plants need more sun?
808
00:42:16.220 --> 00:42:18.470
the word key stoning?
809
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:22.480
On a street level, the term
810
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.150
can also be described as doubling up.
811
00:42:25.150 --> 00:42:26.890
You sell it, you make a profit,
812
00:42:26.890 --> 00:42:29.210
and then you invest that
entire amount of money
813
00:42:29.210 --> 00:42:30.443
to grow your supply.
814
00:42:31.356 --> 00:42:34.150
(tools clink)
815
00:42:34.150 --> 00:42:36.620
the metal detector in here,
816
00:42:36.620 --> 00:42:38.651
or when they exist
they\'re gonna go through.
817
00:42:38.651 --> 00:42:39.973
818
00:42:39.973 --> 00:42:41.390
819
00:42:44.773 --> 00:42:47.356
(metal clanks)
820
00:42:50.452 --> 00:42:52.031
821
00:42:52.031 --> 00:42:53.364
fresh air today.
822
00:42:54.226 --> 00:42:57.023
(cart rolling)
823
00:42:57.023 --> 00:43:00.110
824
00:43:00.110 --> 00:43:01.520
I have a personal interest,
825
00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:02.910
because I\'m the one that did this.
826
00:43:02.910 --> 00:43:04.680
I made this up for you, okay?
827
00:43:04.680 --> 00:43:07.410
But if you tamper, if you
mess with these tools,
828
00:43:07.410 --> 00:43:11.230
I\'m going to take it as an
absolute insult to me personally.
829
00:43:11.230 --> 00:43:12.512
Okay? Fair enough?
830
00:43:12.512 --> 00:43:13.345
831
00:43:13.345 --> 00:43:16.177
keep honest people honest.
832
00:43:16.177 --> 00:43:17.927
All right, all right.
833
00:43:19.869 --> 00:43:20.720
(gears turning)
834
00:43:20.720 --> 00:43:23.448
835
00:43:23.448 --> 00:43:24.781
Is that correct?
836
00:43:26.236 --> 00:43:28.986
(metal clanking)
837
00:43:30.595 --> 00:43:33.428
(distant traffic)
838
00:43:35.045 --> 00:43:37.520
(people chattering)
839
00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:39.330
long have you been back?
840
00:43:39.330 --> 00:43:40.185
841
00:43:40.185 --> 00:43:41.018
842
00:43:41.018 --> 00:43:42.440
843
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:44.880
a little bit what happened?
844
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:46.970
you had a lot of plans,
845
00:43:46.970 --> 00:43:47.803
846
00:43:47.803 --> 00:43:48.636
847
00:43:48.636 --> 00:43:50.770
848
00:43:50.770 --> 00:43:52.350
somebody showed up in treatment,
849
00:43:52.350 --> 00:43:54.380
you know, like, like an ex-boyfriend.
850
00:43:54.380 --> 00:43:55.640
He was abusive, blah, blah, blah.
851
00:43:55.640 --> 00:43:58.170
He was actually my
co-defendant on my last case.
852
00:43:58.170 --> 00:43:59.325
853
00:43:59.325 --> 00:44:02.040
854
00:44:02.040 --> 00:44:03.770
And then I, as soon as I
left, like within a day,
855
00:44:03.770 --> 00:44:05.933
I relapsed and was back,
856
00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:09.630
back to exactly where I was
before doing the same crimes,
857
00:44:09.630 --> 00:44:11.270
doing the same, the same drugs.
858
00:44:11.270 --> 00:44:13.503
I mean, twice as much
drugs, like just, I was-
859
00:44:13.503 --> 00:44:15.000
860
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.510
because I was like,
861
00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:18.983
I messed up again.
862
00:44:20.928 --> 00:44:23.511
(somber music)
863
00:44:26.212 --> 00:44:30.962
I just found out my 13 year
old is in juvenile right now.
864
00:44:32.290 --> 00:44:35.210
He\'s gotten, he\'s same trouble.
865
00:44:35.210 --> 00:44:36.910
He\'s the exact, he\'s just like me.
866
00:44:38.560 --> 00:44:41.143
(somber music)
867
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:51.220
Even though I\'m back
in jail, I have my GED.
868
00:44:51.220 --> 00:44:52.780
I have help getting the programs
869
00:44:52.780 --> 00:44:54.130
that I need when I get out.
870
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:58.670
It\'s hard; it\'s hard when
I\'m inside an addition,
871
00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:02.960
that\'s even harder outside,
but I\'m trying, I\'m doing it.
872
00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:05.940
So I write down everything that I\'ve done
873
00:45:05.940 --> 00:45:08.097
that I don\'t want to do again.
874
00:45:08.097 --> 00:45:10.150
(somber music)
875
00:45:10.150 --> 00:45:11.700
876
00:45:11.700 --> 00:45:15.270
two times, three times, four
times, or more than that.
877
00:45:15.270 --> 00:45:19.494
I\'d rather see recidivism,
than the alternative
878
00:45:19.494 --> 00:45:22.101
or one of the alternatives,
which is death.
879
00:45:22.101 --> 00:45:24.770
I can\'t count how many students I\'ve had
880
00:45:24.770 --> 00:45:27.013
that left the facility,
881
00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:31.840
and within a matter of
weeks, sometimes days,
882
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:34.230
sometimes hours, they\'re no longer living.
883
00:45:34.230 --> 00:45:36.080
because you can\'t sell
884
00:45:36.080 --> 00:45:37.910
a third of a bar so...
885
00:45:37.910 --> 00:45:40.550
have a student that can
886
00:45:40.550 --> 00:45:43.690
walk out that door and can
start walking on a path
887
00:45:43.690 --> 00:45:45.740
that can dramatically change
888
00:45:45.740 --> 00:45:48.223
everything that they\'ve
done before in their life.
889
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:51.170
What\'s at stake
890
00:45:53.060 --> 00:45:54.700
is...
891
00:45:54.700 --> 00:45:56.363
is everything.
892
00:45:56.363 --> 00:45:58.510
(somber music)
893
00:45:58.510 --> 00:46:00.743
894
00:46:01.640 --> 00:46:03.750
I was angry with my friend.
895
00:46:03.750 --> 00:46:06.310
I told my wrath and what
happened to the wrath?
896
00:46:06.310 --> 00:46:07.290
897
00:46:07.290 --> 00:46:08.350
898
00:46:08.350 --> 00:46:11.300
Some people say this happened
to me and this was horrible,
899
00:46:11.300 --> 00:46:13.050
but this is room for me to grow from this.
900
00:46:13.050 --> 00:46:14.650
And some people say,
901
00:46:14.650 --> 00:46:16.540
this happened to me and this is horrible.
902
00:46:16.540 --> 00:46:18.590
So from now on what?
903
00:46:18.590 --> 00:46:19.830
904
00:46:19.830 --> 00:46:20.663
905
00:46:20.663 --> 00:46:23.009
to say, I don\'t care anymore.
906
00:46:23.009 --> 00:46:23.842
907
00:46:23.842 --> 00:46:24.933
not gonna do this, yeah.
908
00:46:24.933 --> 00:46:25.766
909
00:46:25.766 --> 00:46:26.599
910
00:46:26.599 --> 00:46:27.800
911
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:31.963
912
00:46:33.150 --> 00:46:36.030
You feel me, and when you,
and that\'s the unknown,
913
00:46:36.030 --> 00:46:38.870
that\'s fear because you
never did it before.
914
00:46:38.870 --> 00:46:40.275
So I stay angry.
915
00:46:40.275 --> 00:46:41.971
916
00:46:41.971 --> 00:46:43.573
know how to explain,
917
00:46:43.573 --> 00:46:45.180
like I feel like I self-destruct.
918
00:46:45.180 --> 00:46:46.180
919
00:46:46.180 --> 00:46:47.790
920
00:46:47.790 --> 00:46:49.250
because it just doesn\'t seem right.
921
00:46:49.250 --> 00:46:51.220
So I\'m so scared to fail
922
00:46:51.220 --> 00:46:52.820
because I\'ll be so disappointed in myself,
923
00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:54.040
and then I\'ll be mad at myself,
924
00:46:54.040 --> 00:46:55.810
and I\'m like my worst enemy,
you know what I\'m saying?
925
00:46:55.810 --> 00:46:58.470
what you\'re capable of,
926
00:46:58.470 --> 00:47:01.890
they will expect more and
more and more from you,
927
00:47:01.890 --> 00:47:03.800
more of your best, and that\'s hard.
928
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.260
I really don\'t fit,
929
00:47:06.260 --> 00:47:08.980
inside the, like the jail, you know,
930
00:47:08.980 --> 00:47:10.930
I\'m trying to feed my brain right now,
931
00:47:10.930 --> 00:47:12.820
moving at a fast pace,
932
00:47:12.820 --> 00:47:15.280
and I just, sometime I just
feel like the odd ball,
933
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.650
you know, out of some of the crews.
934
00:47:17.650 --> 00:47:20.072
understand what I\'m saying?
935
00:47:20.072 --> 00:47:23.210
This is where you are, but
this is not where you fit.
936
00:47:23.210 --> 00:47:24.660
You fit somewhere else.
937
00:47:24.660 --> 00:47:26.300
You are fit for something
938
00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:27.920
a whole lot better than this, correct?
939
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:28.753
940
00:47:28.753 --> 00:47:29.586
941
00:47:29.586 --> 00:47:32.300
When you find where you
fit, you stay where you fit
942
00:47:32.300 --> 00:47:33.670
and not come back, correct?
943
00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:34.759
944
00:47:34.759 --> 00:47:36.847
945
00:47:39.576 --> 00:47:42.159
(upbeat music)
946
00:47:45.448 --> 00:47:46.920
947
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:49.130
their accomplishment,
948
00:47:49.130 --> 00:47:50.590
not just get them on a bus,
949
00:47:50.590 --> 00:47:51.860
and get them across the stage,
950
00:47:51.860 --> 00:47:52.693
and give them a diploma.
951
00:47:52.693 --> 00:47:55.149
We really, really want to honor them.
952
00:47:55.149 --> 00:47:59.000
(cheerful chattering)
953
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.420
I have family members that
have been incarcerated.
954
00:48:01.420 --> 00:48:03.820
So it kind of caused me to reflect on
955
00:48:03.820 --> 00:48:05.333
life without education,
956
00:48:06.670 --> 00:48:08.453
life with no hope.
957
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:11.845
958
00:48:11.845 --> 00:48:16.440
Doors open at 10, just like
last year, I got great news.
959
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:18.880
They actually fixed the
leaky buckets, remember the-
960
00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:20.890
(cheering and clapping)
961
00:48:20.890 --> 00:48:25.152
962
00:48:25.152 --> 00:48:26.280
(sighing)
963
00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:28.230
964
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.965
Long story short, the
graduation is tomorrow,
965
00:48:31.965 --> 00:48:34.496
and the bus may not be available.
966
00:48:34.496 --> 00:48:37.079
(cars driving)
967
00:48:38.002 --> 00:48:40.585
(upbeat music)
968
00:48:47.527 --> 00:48:50.444
(vehicles driving)
969
00:48:53.573 --> 00:48:56.573
(joyful chattering)
970
00:48:58.568 --> 00:49:01.151
(upbeat music)
971
00:49:12.522 --> 00:49:13.830
972
00:49:13.830 --> 00:49:15.660
you can go ahead and take
your sweatshirts off.
973
00:49:15.660 --> 00:49:16.970
You\'re going to put on your caps and gowns
974
00:49:16.970 --> 00:49:18.313
without your sweatshirts.
975
00:49:19.667 --> 00:49:22.750
(inmates chattering)
976
00:49:25.990 --> 00:49:28.240
(laughing)
977
00:49:30.990 --> 00:49:33.359
Your tassels should be on your left side.
978
00:49:33.359 --> 00:49:34.442
979
00:49:36.350 --> 00:49:38.490
980
00:49:38.490 --> 00:49:39.950
981
00:49:39.950 --> 00:49:40.783
982
00:49:42.701 --> 00:49:45.940
And I\'m going to miss all
of you in the corridor.
983
00:49:45.940 --> 00:49:46.845
984
00:49:46.845 --> 00:49:49.248
985
00:49:49.248 --> 00:49:50.212
(joyous laughter)
986
00:49:50.212 --> 00:49:52.295
987
00:49:53.805 --> 00:49:56.638
(loud chattering)
988
00:49:59.894 --> 00:50:01.354
989
00:50:01.354 --> 00:50:04.849
Face front, face front, face front.
990
00:50:04.849 --> 00:50:08.682
(crowd cheering and clapping)
991
00:50:09.521 --> 00:50:13.812
(Pomp and Circumstance plays)
992
00:50:13.812 --> 00:50:17.735
(continuous clapping)
993
00:50:17.735 --> 00:50:21.709
(crowd cheering and clapping)
994
00:50:21.709 --> 00:50:25.876
(Pomp and Circumstance continues)
995
00:50:39.873 --> 00:50:42.631
(clapping)
996
00:50:42.631 --> 00:50:43.631
997
00:50:45.140 --> 00:50:48.170
998
00:50:48.170 --> 00:50:51.790
Ms. Bravo is one of the
people who runs the show
999
00:50:51.790 --> 00:50:53.810
and everybody is afraid of her.
1000
00:50:53.810 --> 00:50:56.810
(everyone laughing)
1001
00:50:59.040 --> 00:51:03.850
I apologize next, forgiveness
from my mom for scaring her,
1002
00:51:03.850 --> 00:51:06.260
worrying her and embarrassing her
1003
00:51:06.260 --> 00:51:10.350
and not giving her a fair
return on her investment in me
1004
00:51:10.350 --> 00:51:14.162
and for not being the son
that I demand my sons to be.
1005
00:51:14.162 --> 00:51:18.380
(crowd cheering and clapping)
1006
00:51:18.380 --> 00:51:20.580
the last thing on my mind,
1007
00:51:20.580 --> 00:51:22.170
when it should have been the first.
1008
00:51:22.170 --> 00:51:25.252
If I can do it, damn, anybody can.
1009
00:51:25.252 --> 00:51:29.085
(crowd cheering and clapping)
1010
00:51:36.554 --> 00:51:41.290
never completed anything.
1011
00:51:41.290 --> 00:51:43.390
I dropped out of high school.
1012
00:51:43.390 --> 00:51:46.020
I\'ve been to several trade schools,
1013
00:51:46.020 --> 00:51:47.913
but never completed any of them.
1014
00:51:49.330 --> 00:51:51.610
And I\'ve been to four
different drug programs,
1015
00:51:51.610 --> 00:51:53.510
but never finished any of them either.
1016
00:51:55.570 --> 00:51:58.870
But at this stage, in
my life at 59 years old,
1017
00:51:58.870 --> 00:52:01.223
I stand up here and I can say,
1018
00:52:02.107 --> 00:52:04.511
I have finally completed something.
1019
00:52:04.511 --> 00:52:08.344
(crowd cheering and clapping)
1020
00:52:12.236 --> 00:52:15.319
(Lean On Me playing)
1021
00:52:16.830 --> 00:52:21.330
(everyone singing and clapping along)
1022
00:52:30.580 --> 00:52:33.830
(Lean On Me continues)
1023
00:52:58.511 --> 00:53:00.928
(chattering)
1024
00:53:08.489 --> 00:53:11.156
(serious music)
1025
00:53:13.052 --> 00:53:15.885
(chains jingling)
1026
00:53:22.890 --> 00:53:24.953
1027
00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:29.120
while incarcerated, under
all these circumstances,
1028
00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:30.623
they can really do anything.
1029
00:53:32.530 --> 00:53:34.480
I\'m going to miss them in the corridor.
1030
00:53:36.597 --> 00:53:39.764
(contemplative music)
1031
00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:55.469
(bus rumbling)
1032
00:53:55.469 --> 00:53:58.573
(contemplative music continues)
1033
00:53:58.573 --> 00:54:01.740
(basketball bouncing)
1034
00:54:02.860 --> 00:54:04.830
1035
00:54:04.830 --> 00:54:07.653
that I\'m going to be
given a second chance.
1036
00:54:10.460 --> 00:54:14.093
I\'m very happy; my
family is very ecstatic.
1037
00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:18.803
But it\'s a double-edged
sword that come with it.
1038
00:54:20.317 --> 00:54:22.802
(door opening)
1039
00:54:22.802 --> 00:54:24.043
1040
00:54:25.610 --> 00:54:27.007
Alright.
1041
00:54:27.007 --> 00:54:28.589
So,
1042
00:54:28.589 --> 00:54:31.330
(sighing)
1043
00:54:31.330 --> 00:54:33.180
Tomorrow\'s a big day; you\'ll get out.
1044
00:54:35.530 --> 00:54:37.650
Judge took a real big chance with you,
1045
00:54:37.650 --> 00:54:39.160
it was very impressive to him.
1046
00:54:39.160 --> 00:54:41.660
Not many guys could do what you did,
1047
00:54:41.660 --> 00:54:44.020
but you know, the hardest
part is coming up.
1048
00:54:44.020 --> 00:54:47.220
1049
00:54:47.220 --> 00:54:49.430
even just a little bit?
1050
00:54:49.430 --> 00:54:50.263
1051
00:54:50.263 --> 00:54:52.450
where you\'re gonna be
1052
00:54:52.450 --> 00:54:53.872
for the next 18 years.
1053
00:54:53.872 --> 00:54:55.790
I mean, what, your son is what 17 now.
1054
00:54:55.790 --> 00:54:56.623
1055
00:54:56.623 --> 00:55:01.310
won\'t see him until he\'s 35.
1056
00:55:01.310 --> 00:55:02.158
Remember that.
1057
00:55:02.158 --> 00:55:02.991
1058
00:55:02.991 --> 00:55:04.420
1059
00:55:04.420 --> 00:55:05.253
1060
00:55:05.253 --> 00:55:07.120
1061
00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:08.210
what was it, 5 years here?
1062
00:55:08.210 --> 00:55:09.151
1063
00:55:09.151 --> 00:55:09.984
1064
00:55:09.984 --> 00:55:12.240
So for 5 years you got 18
years hanging over your head.
1065
00:55:15.232 --> 00:55:17.982
(metal jingling)
1066
00:55:18.865 --> 00:55:20.865
1067
00:55:22.297 --> 00:55:24.167
I\'m going to walk out this way.
1068
00:55:25.328 --> 00:55:28.745
(uplifting guitar music)
1069
00:55:37.311 --> 00:55:39.894
(door opening)
1070
00:55:42.561 --> 00:55:45.394
(music continues)
1071
00:55:54.792 --> 00:55:57.042
(exhaling)
1072
00:56:04.327 --> 00:56:07.744
(uplifting guitar music)
1073
00:56:59.560 --> 00:57:02.020
1074
00:57:02.020 --> 00:57:04.660
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1075
00:57:04.660 --> 00:57:08.660
and the John D and Catherine
T MacArthur Foundation.
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Additional funding was provided by
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the Wyncote foundation
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and the National Endowment for the Arts.
