Aug. 27, 2025

Revisiting "the Farm"

Revisiting "the Farm"
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Season 8

this episode just prior to Labor Day weekend, Jim Chapman brings you inside the 1998 academy award winning documentary “The Farm” based off of life inside of Bloody Angola.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody in Gola, a

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podcast of one hundred and forty two years in the making,

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the complete story of America's Bloody is prison. I'm Jim Chapman,

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and I have a special presentation for you today. Look,

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Labor Day is Monday, so rather than bring you a

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brand new episode this week, there's something I'm working on

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that has taken me a little longer to research than

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I anticipated, but I wanted to bring you something this week.

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So here's what I'm gonna do. Many of you have

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emailed me in the past and you've mentioned The Farm,

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which is the Academy Award winning documentary based off of

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Life Inside in Gola, and I was really surprised how

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many people have not seen or heard that documentary. I'm

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going to bring you The Farm and you're going to

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be able to listen to it right here on Bloody

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and Gola. Pot. I hope everyone has a phenomenal Labor

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Day weekend.

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Be safe.

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It's wild out there, and I will be talking to

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all of you next week. So here it is.

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The form down in Louisiana lies America's largest maximum security prison,

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surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River and thirty

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miles from the nearest town. Angola is a world and

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to itself. There are over five thousand inmates here, serving

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some of the longest sentences of any prison in America.

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Nearly eighty five percent of those who enter the gates

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will die here. This is the story of six men

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trying to overcome the odds.

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Timea on.

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If only go On.

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Lost.

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George Crawford was found guilty of first degree murder and

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received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

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He is twenty two years old.

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Louisiana is known to have the harshest sentencing in the country.

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And while the common perception is.

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That prisoners don't serve their full terms, for those heading

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to Angola prison life means life and ten dollars.

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Shoot sigh that hood.

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Every Monday, new uh in mats come in and in

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the process.

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We're all guaranteed a job.

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We have a good job.

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Security number place thirty seven fifty nine or the suiceige

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ten di had a buck zero one twenty two sixty nine.

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Alright number thirty four twenty seven thirty one, shueiarge eight

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and a half.

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They a buck one twenty eight seventy seven.

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Alright, no to judge, he said, I I have a

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natural life.

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No parole, uh anything like that.

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Alright, number that is twenty three. Basically, e sorr.

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You never coming on there the buck you you you

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can never come on.

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That's on a forty both shue size eye.

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Cause I ain't no perfect child. I done did thirty

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as I was coming up. I have sold drug, I

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have stole things. I have lied, I cheated, but I

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have never killed anyone. I ain't furfe that what I

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wanna get across. I ain't furthe everything I did that

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I ain't get called for, get.

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Caught up with.

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In nineteen ninety seven, almost nine hundred young men was

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sent to Angold. More than half of them have life sentences.

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Seventy seven percent were African American.

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I'm from New Orleans.

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I grew up in a project.

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I dropped out of school I in eighth grade.

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I wanted things. I saw the.

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People w.

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Cars, golds, you know, women, houses, you know I want.

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I wanted them type of things, material things. I hold

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a lot of buying, going far as rape killings.

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You know how they treat you.

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You gonna do what they take to survive. Yeah, I'm scared.

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I'm scared. I'm scared that I ain't gonna never get

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a chance to see my luck ones again.

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Do you think you can take care of self up

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here and the problems and why take 'em standards?

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That's it?

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You get any relatives over here?

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That's uh what relationship cutting cut gonna go?

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Maximum?

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Be even three?

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Really camp?

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D okay?

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I say two man sail walk, two man sellwack. You

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have a salemate, grow out the work bay, light hours

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and seeking to sale at night recreation on the weekend.

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All calls are fifteen minute collect calls. M All calls

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can be monitored or recorded at any time, except for

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your legal phone calls, which cannot. At the beginning of

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each phone call, there's gonna be a tape recorded message

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stating at the callers coming from a male penal institution.

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So we've cut it on the way yet I don't

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know why I have all Nope, forty three letters with terror.

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If you leave your pairs, can I can consent?

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Ego you consider the v I go take on cinemon.

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Yeah, I remember that first day coming in to get

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was October the fourth, nineteen Uh.

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Uh fifty nine on the on the on the Wednesday. Oh,

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it must have been about twenty four years old, the.

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Twenty four.

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My name is Eugene China here junior, and uh, I've

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been here in Louisa State Penitentia since nineteen fifty nine,

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going on my third eighth year. This something like I've

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been raised here. I'm sorry to said, but it is

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I've been raised here.

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Oh look, yeah, this is what you call as long

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as I've inmate, what's the thing that we allowed to have.

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That the system condoms?

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Uh?

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These is my marble books.

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Just keep me from the existence of the tension that

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exists in here, see that re tension around that. Three

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things that goalie would do for a man. Number one,

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he would bring you to the cross road of a

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ton in pipe. Number two, kid would hearten you that

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you would come to be a hard criminal and that's

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all you will desire to do and you will become

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better on the inner part of your life. Number three

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he'll be kidding you.

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Yeah.

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Serving time is if like a puzzle, a two thousand

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piece farther that is, throw it to you and it's

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scouted as the Buchu way and now put it back together.

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That's the way your life is. When you sell us

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to a penal institution, your life is scattered. You the

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one got to put it back together.

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Once a slave's plantation and God was turned into a

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prison at the end of the Civil War. During its

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one hundred year history, and Gola has been known as

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the most dangerous and bloody prison in America. And also

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times have changed, the place still strikes fear in the

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hearts of people throughout the South.

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So be careful when you get involved in things like that.

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See, this is a prison, and everything.

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Here is valuable to everybody that's here.

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All right, there's drugs. There's drugs everywhere.

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You know what one giant calls you here five facts

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of cigarettes, So it would be stressed.

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There was a time in the not so distant past

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when orientation at Angola consisted of a beating and the

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advice to purchase a weapon.

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Are you thinking about your backside?

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Nowadays, the prison offers a full day orientation led by

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some of the old timers.

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You got butteries and all the penitential change people.

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How many you all are serving life sendsing in there.

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I mean, if you all a servant over twenty years Okay,

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so the majority of you, all the long terms, the

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one thing I want to explain, I'm explain something a

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little bit about myself and then you'll understand where I'm

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coming from. In January of nineteen seventy two, while under

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the influence of LSD, I came through Shreveport, pulled off

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a robbery, led to shootout with police, to police, was shot.

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I was shot and my fall partner was shot, but

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nobody died. Nine months later, I will sendence to seventy

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five years in prison. I've been here since. It's over

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twenty five years. One of the things you find out

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why you're in penitentiary is that everybody who's close to

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you over a period of time, they're always gonna fade away.

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First it's gonna be your associates and friends, all your homies.

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They gonna cut you loose. The old lady, she's gonna

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cut you loose. Your children, aren't a lot of you

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All who might have children now as they grow up,

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they gonna forget you. You that daddy usually the person

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that's gonna stick with you. It's gonna be your mother,

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your father, may be a close brother or sister.

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And if you stay down on a long period of time.

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Those people who do stick by you are gonna get older.

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They're older, and sometime they're gonna die off, So you're

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gonna be here alone. But one of the things I

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wanna show you is that when you start going through

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those pains and finding out that the people you thought

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were close, you begin to cut you loose. Don't get

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hooked up into the negative activities. It can get you

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stuck here forever, despite the fact that you're doing life.

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Since there's always hope. All right, I'm gonna talk.

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To y'all later.

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When I came, you know, like I say, ain't Goola

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was classified as the blood Is prison in the Nation Mark,

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And I know, my focus was on surviving.

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I was gonna do whatever it was necessarily survive, you know.

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And I ended up going to the cell block when

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I got busted with two nines.

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While I was in the cell block, you know, that's

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when I really woke up to myself.

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I said, Man, all I'm doing is really digging a

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whole deeper and deeper for myself. I didn't have any

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family down here, I didn't have any friends down there,

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so what I had to do was focus on how

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I can get out that cell block and get involved

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in some positive things where I can redevelop my life

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and show somebody that I really deserved to be out.

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Ye, it was a put M nine sixty, I.

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Said fifteen twelve.

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You know, the person who was arrested twenty two years

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ago went totally different person. Since I've been here, I've

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been through classes, programs, projects, within the heads of numbers

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of organization. I've done everything in in prison that I

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should've done as a community leader and society.

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He was with you, what was the one what was

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our table doing?

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I went up for parole originally in July nineteen ninety four,

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and despite my good conduct record, I was denied a hearing.

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I'm currently working on trying to get a rehearing. This

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is my parole board file.

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Basically, it comprises a good percentage of the things that

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I've been involved with over the years, and you know,

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some of the things I've left off because it would

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be too thick. This is the actual statement of support

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of my parole hearing. This a two page statement, has

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them to be forgiven for the crime that I committed,

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taking responsibility for the crime that I committed, that happened

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twenty five years ago. This is a hard time because

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of the conservativism all the way across the board. But

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you know, sometime, even in the midst of all of that,

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sometimes God.

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Touches a person's heart and miracles happened.

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So I've got faith, you know, I've got faith. Once

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a parole board makes this decision, that's that's the decision.

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It's fine, and I will walk out.

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Didn't have this park the other day, HOBt what happens

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to ones where the fluid just stays there and doesn't

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circulate that you're gonna get in Aumonia And if you

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get in, Youumania.

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Wanna beat you out.

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I know I'm gonna have to get out for something

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to do.

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You need our help, let me know.

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Okay, that's a good nurse. She's a bad nurse. She's

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a good nurse's she's tough too, So well, this is tough.

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This is not as terrible a place as you would

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think it is.

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I'm not saying that your life isn't torn awake. Say like,

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you come here and you're never gonna get out, but

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then you can still have a life inside. She can

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help other inmates. You can do different things. You don't

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have to just say, well, I'm dead because you're here.

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There's other things you can do. You can learn the trade,

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you can learn.

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To be a lawyer.

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You could and help other pew that's that's not always self.

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You have to look to.

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My name's glowing Tario and I'm in the Angola hospital

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cause of cancer in the lunger. My wife and I

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had a little trouble and uh I killed her. I

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was working overseas and I came back home and she

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was pregnant for one of my friends. And uh, then

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she hated the baby and uh, she'd she'd mistreated and everything.

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And I told her to I put the baby in

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my name and everything. And I told her, said, if

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you mistreat that baby, i'm'a hurt you, you know. And

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uh the baby was three years old and she was

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still mistreated, and I told her if she done it,

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done it one more time, I'd kill her.

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And I did.

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What.

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Uh what happened years agos happened and you can't undo it.

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Excuse me, you can't undo it.

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You can't fix it up.

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It's done. All you can say is.

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You don't know whether you done the right thing or not.

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What uh the tart.

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Lessons for going.

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Very four.

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My understanding is that he's been told that, in all

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likelihood he will not live to see Christmas.

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Oh do you think, first your life's not finished just

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because you're an Angle.

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Yeah, it's not.

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A lot of people think it some way, but it's not.

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Inmates assigned to field duty, the lowest class of Angelist jobs,

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are awake at five am and sent to work on

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the farm. The pay is four cents an hour. The

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best jobs at Angola pay twenty cents an hour.

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That's good.

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Oh, the first time you ever worked with fil first

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time working my life?

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Excuse it's like.

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A big plantation in days youmby.

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We hate to call it that.

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In a way, that kind of is because we have

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the you know the it then make it prove this

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was a plantation and this land had been farmed and

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it was cleared in the early eighteen hundred. The region's

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name Angola is because the slaves that worked these fields

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came from Angola and Africa, and it picks up its

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name from there.

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Forden came runs Angle to prison, with responsibilities ranging from

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the administration of executions to overseeing the farm's multi million

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dollar enterprises.

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Everybody here works in the field lines with hoes and

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ditchbank blade.

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It's going to be about twelve.

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To fourteen hundred a day. With hope.

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There's gonna be a vast number driving attractors, operating all equipment,

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unloading and loading trucks, and traders running a warehouses.

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Everybody had a job.

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Everybody Angola works every day. This is really good from

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around Angola because you start out with a ditchbank blade

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in the field or hope, and you can have illusion

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to the grinder that you might at some point get

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to drive attracted what is it the big warehouse and

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locked in the sail never to come out. You come

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outside and in the sunshine.

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You're out here working.

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It's good for you and you feel like you're healthier.

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You're going to get live longer and make them business

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so they're less violent too.

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You have to be good business man too. The run this.

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Player at eighteen thousand acres and Gola is the largest

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prison in America. There are six complexes called camps spread

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across the landscape to keep this massive institution running. The

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prison employs eighteen hundred workers to be prepared for any emergency.

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A town was built within the prison gates, called the Beeline.

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There are two hundred employee families raising their children here,

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and although the baseball field is only a quarter mile

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from Death Row, the residents call it the safest town

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in America.

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Good afternoon is here as CALSP nine N forty seven

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film on your radio, Dob, and we broadcast daily from

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the Louisiana State Penitentia at Angola. I'm going and I'll

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be here with you all the way through. With the

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beautiful and inspirational souls of the gospel.

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I like to take this opportunity to.

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Be wish y'all.

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Are the brothers up on dead Row? A very beautiful day.

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And I tell you what, precious Lord, if he's with you,

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he'll definitely go take your hand.

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Right.

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I had been doing coke all that day and I

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had run out and I needed some more, and I

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was still kind of weird, like desperate. I knew I

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had to get some money to could try to get

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out of town. And I seen this couple and I

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approached him, and that's where the crown happened.

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I told him, man, give me his money, and he

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started fighting.

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He wanna give it to me? And his wife was clean.

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Think did you have a card or what would you.

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I had life? How were you go out there? For

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now twelve years? He keeping herself for twenty three hours

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a day.

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He can't come out and you're not supposed to come

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into contact with other people unless you handcuffed m I

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mean it was kind of weird.

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Cause after awhile you developed.

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Into that, and then when you get around people, it's

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kind of strange, kind of like an animal.

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I guess.

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I like to listen to music. I like to listen

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to that. Other teams and right or being got TV

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in from myself. I don't like TV too much, and

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look out the window. I got a big window across

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from myself. I could see the hills back there. I

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seen some years back there. One day the first time

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I seen some live DearS wasn't.

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In the zoo.

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Yeah, man's been all right, you know it?

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About then I got I changed since I've been out there.

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When I was coming up, there wasn't nothing there that

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was really party like this, didn't really care. But now

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I have more concern about myself and others and.

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Felt good.

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It's more worse, more not worry, if that makes sense, small.

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Worried, and things have more meaning.

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Now he's sweeter and sad, two things. Then you realize good.

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Now that you realize what it's about, you don't really

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have the opportunity to act upon it.

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And so it's kind of mixed up in the medical And.

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I didn't worry for some reason. I felt that some

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way I would be able to prove my innesss. I

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didn't think it was gonna take this long. My name

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is Vincent now for Simbers uh. I'm forty five years

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old born February the seventeenth, nineteen fifty two.

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My uh my.

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The original charge that I'm in prison for it is

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aggravated rate. I've been down on the charge for twenty years.

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I've been counseantly of fighting my case in the courts

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for the past twenty years.

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I am an innocent man.

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One of the victims.

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They asked him, would you ever be able to identify

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this person again if you saw them?

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She said no.

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Sheriff asked her why cause she said all niggas look alike.

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That's in her statement and also in her statement, she

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said that they wanted someone for the for the charge.

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They wanted to punish someone for the crime. The sheriff said, well,

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we're gonna do justice, and.

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I guess I'm the example.

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Although he had only a sixth grade education with no

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money to pay for an attorney, Vincent Simmons, like many

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other angle and inmates.

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Was forced to represent and himself.

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After petitioning twelve different courts over a seventeen year period,

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Simmons was finally given the information the courts claimed they

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had lost back in nineteen seventy seven.

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My attorney had never sought discovery and I had never

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been provided with this evidence. The jewelry have never reviewed

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this evidence. This is the exculpatory evidence of my innocence

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of the aggravated grave choice. This is my first parole

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here and in twenty years, and I hoped to accomplished

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my freedom.

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Are the victims he yet business sy all to take them?

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We take them from him?

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Hey, how y'all doing this morning? You say to me,

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glad y'all if it's coming, you know it wasn't easy.

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Okay, just be relas.

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Given minutes he took all the time, and.

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Just be calm.

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And that's all I want to say is in the

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past twenty years, the only company that we've had was

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to know that he cannot hurt us or our family

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or someone else. And that's the only peace of mind

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that we have found and that we have and we're

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just here to ask that you don't take that from us.

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Well, let me let me say this, because you're very nervous,

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and admittedly.

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I beat you.

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I'm a victim pride to avathing.

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I'm stay president of crime Fighters. I understand what you're saying.

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Okay, I'm a retired police officer.

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His good time date is twenty twenty eight, and by

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my calculations, he'll be around seventy four when and if

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he lives that long.

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You know, anybody else want to say anything?

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Indeed, I've lived in a lot of fear.

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I have a problem with black people. I can't.

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Full up at the store and.

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There'll be black man.

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I have a hard time.

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You're scared of him.

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Not scared of me?

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This mor morning, No, I wouldn't, but.

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I wouldn't be alone with you either.

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But school, there's just a lot of fear. How were

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you when this happening? Fourteen?

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Cool?

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It happened, Yeah, twenty years ago.

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Twenty years means nothing to me.

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That's yesterday to me. I got two grand babies, both

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of them murals, one of five and one's two.

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And I was just sitting here thinking and looking at you.

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Oh.

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I don't know what I was the last thing like

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that happened to my brand babies.

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I just know.

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We feel solid, we feel you sold.

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This boy is very sympathetic to you.

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Thank you.

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You can rest assured. That's uh, this boy sitting there

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doing stupid thank you you take me said no, no,

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I'm not sitting.

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Well, I don't have that to say time, but I'd like.

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To hear what he said. I'm gonna hear what he said.

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What do you ask him?

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Leading the chair right here?

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Come in and have a seat.

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I have gomf uh right, good morning.

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The Simmons.

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I'm gonna properly identify and then uh, the boy would

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likes you. Questions there and then you you can say

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a few words on your own.

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Behalf of tells you.

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So.

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The full name is Vincentate Simmons.

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You were sentenced to one hundred years of hard labor,

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and you're as Davis Mort's sixteenth twenty seventy seven.

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Is that correct? That's theory, and.

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You've been locked up how many years as of now?

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Mister sunny years twenty years.

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Yes, Uh, would you answer mister Magick's questions?

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You know, sir, you committed these two rats? No, sir,

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but you say no such.

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Tell me what happened?

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Well, I have newly discovered the evidence, cause I've been

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trying to uh get the evidence since I've been.

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Here to prove my innocence. I was you put your

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no sufer.

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Okay, they tell you said that they want to be

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a a maker of confession, and I told 'em that

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I wasn't gonna make a confession cause I was insert

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and uh, they'd say, one of one of the offics

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hit me and when I tried to jump up, the

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other officer jumped up in the shop me and it

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in in the police station.

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And then your version is that, uh they just shot you.

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Yes, that I was, and uh, their version is you

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grabbed a pistol and you tried to kill them, and you.

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Kept pulling the trigger and it wouldn't go off, and

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another officer came in and shot you.

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I was.

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I was handcuffed when out when I was brought in.

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I understand that, but you could still grab a pistol,

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now you know you did?

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You contending, now you didn't grab it.

500
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:27.480
I didn't grab the pistol. I was never charged with

501
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:27.960
the crime.

502
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:29.079
Uh.

503
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.440
They'd tried to justify shooting me the four sip if.

504
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:36.200
The officer wanted to kill you when he he wouldn't

505
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:36.519
shot me.

506
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:37.160
He shot me.

507
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.079
Tew many have me ready right above the hut. Later on, Uh,

508
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:46.799
I got out the hospital. They appointed me two attorneys,

509
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:50.240
and they talked to me once and then I went

510
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:50.680
to truck.

511
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.160
We didn't have none of this evidence.

512
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:56.279
None of this evidence was presented before the jury, because

513
00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:59.759
the d had it in his files. And in these files,

514
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:04.720
the doctor's report indicate that the girls were vertrips cause

515
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.039
they were examined after the hour was arrested.

516
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.599
They said, why.

517
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.559
Haven't those reports by the sides. They said that they

518
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:12.079
was virgin.

519
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:13.039
I'd like to.

520
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:34.079
See h.

521
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.199
They testified before the jury that they were brutally.

522
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.920
Rik They repeatedly asked 'em would they be able to

523
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.960
identify this person again if they saw him?

524
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:49.199
They say no, because all blacks look alike.

525
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.280
And they put you in the lineup, then't you listen

526
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:56.119
to the line up? Put you in the line up,

527
00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:58.239
and they said they all picked out.

528
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.599
The man know when they brought me and I was

529
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:02.719
handcuffed and they was there.

530
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:06.039
Where's that line up to you?

531
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:23.679
The picture that.

532
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:20.039
You were the only one handcuffed in the lineup.

533
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:24.639
I'm the all in one. That's the other half.

534
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:25.840
They just didn't have the water.

535
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:27.320
Why an't they ever?

536
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:28.239
No more?

537
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:28.800
Ain't h.

538
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:36.400
Are you bringing this case up.

539
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.559
For rehearing from it presently going to the United States

540
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:40.239
Supreme Court.

541
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:42.480
I'm trying to get it announced to this cuan coat.

542
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:49.159
InChI yeah, I've been relat Okay, Uh we shall step

543
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:50.360
out way and discuss the case.

544
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.480
It would you have the different call? Yah?

545
00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:56.960
Yeah?

546
00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:12.599
Kay take pa have to take the mone goodness, Yeah,

547
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:14.280
twenty years I call up something to go.

548
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:18.800
Yes, he did me, you know about Mama says they

549
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:20.920
had don't write too much, you know, s we canna

550
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:21.199
get this.

551
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:21.840
Take a little bit.

552
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:23.599
You can write a book on it after you get

553
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:28.400
to the office.

554
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:31.760
He did it, He just didn't. Uh you know I

555
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:32.440
have that, you know?

556
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.559
Okay, Uh, bring miss Simmons back in just chter Simmons.

557
00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:52.719
Its Simmons have to uh listen to testimony going over

558
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.599
the reports the board his votes this time to deny

559
00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:58.480
your quest for and certainly you have a right to

560
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.440
uh to pursue your k aged through the United States

561
00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:02.320
have been important.

562
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:06.079
I certainly would do that, you know, that's that's your

563
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:06.920
legal right.

564
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.559
Mm hmmm.

565
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:18.280
H m.

566
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:39.079
H m hmmmm.

567
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:53.239
A hundred years I did twenty on one hundred.

568
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:56.480
That mean I got eighty.

569
00:37:56.199 --> 00:38:38.119
More eat, sleep and work. You know, surviving. I survived

570
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:41.360
all my life, you know, enjoy the time on my

571
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:45.480
own on the streets or that won't be no problem survive,

572
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:47.679
you know, knowing.

573
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.840
The problem that's getting out, it's the only frible.

574
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:59.880
I ain't too concern about surviving, did you Asublin?

575
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:00.400
Excuse me?

576
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:03.679
Six no figger sec twenty s.

577
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:11.920
I'm all right, you know, I'm just trying to make about.

578
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.199
Now my f first of the pas boschay.

579
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:19.000
What I'm all right, y'all can come see me this week.

580
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:31.519
But but you know you're gonna come. That's how you

581
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:32.239
get them gold.

582
00:39:32.280 --> 00:40:08.079
Though he tried to make me think that he was alright,

583
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:10.800
but I know better, like I hear in his voice

584
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:13.480
he was scared. He said he's not, but he is

585
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:17.079
because I feel like reality didn't sit in now, you know,

586
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.480
and you know this is not no dream of this

587
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:21.440
is nothing made up?

588
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:22.280
This is for real.

589
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:49.280
How do you do slut or anything?

590
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:49.960
You are made?

591
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:51.159
Then I have a cold.

592
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.079
Yeah yeah, he sure don't.

593
00:40:56.920 --> 00:41:00.000
Be all right, and you'll normal be all y'all.

594
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:05.440
So I don't even know if the lawyer filed for a.

595
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.320
Field or i'm'a try to get in touch with him.

596
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:08.679
No more.

597
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.519
Ah, he don't represent me no more, you know, so

598
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:13.039
it ain't his job.

599
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:13.880
He can't do name.

600
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:22.519
But it ain't nothing need to do it, no, y'all?

601
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:28.920
Right, Yeah, yeah, I needed some sod so some TV shirt.

602
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:30.599
You about to cry or what?

603
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:46.719
I don't know'm'a y'all, all right, stop crying?

604
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:03.159
What seven dollars?

605
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:04.400
I ain't nothing to tell you.

606
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:06.599
I just I just pat to see it, like, just

607
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.480
cause I still don't think you got a fair drive yard.

608
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.599
But he's accused of nobody. I'll go to my grave

609
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:18.760
saying if nobody could make me think my baby did

610
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:19.960
there say now he got a.

611
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:20.880
Bum deal in coat.

612
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:21.760
He really did.

613
00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:26.480
It's it's fad when you don't have no money. If

614
00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:28.880
you have money, money, A lot of people say money

615
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:30.639
don't mean nothing, but that's not true, cause if you

616
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:33.239
have money, money works out a whole lot of stuff

617
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.079
and we just didn't hang up.

618
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:42.679
And he's going on now, I.

619
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:46.239
Can't go out there. I see you later, right, I

620
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:46.559
love you.

621
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.199
Ye love you too, mcau because I know you will.

622
00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:54.599
Ye see say suge.

623
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:57.519
While I can walk out there with her, I ain't

624
00:42:57.599 --> 00:42:58.159
think so.

625
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:34.719
M I love you.

626
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:37.119
Oh, I'm going over there.

627
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:46.079
Idea, Well, give you idea, Shrivings handles, Wembley.

628
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:48.880
That all right, let's see. I'll tell us going that

629
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.679
we can rock. Oh Heaven his father to dam and

630
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.199
your son Jesus Christ. We come together, touching the degree

631
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:55.239
and ask you to to give us for.

632
00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:57.519
Our sins and forgive the sins of anybody who was

633
00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:58.280
sinned against us.

634
00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:01.360
It took a Shawnty Witherspoon over ten years to go

635
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:06.079
from the lowest status inmate to become a Class A trustee.

636
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:09.039
He and a handful of other prisoners at Angola are

637
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:11.760
allowed to participate in programs that take them out of

638
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:14.360
the prison and throughout the state of Louisiana.

639
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:23.159
A man here, rough, you don't come side with that, right,

640
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.199
it's always excited. Just like Ronald here, you know, like

641
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:29.519
he goes up. Sometimes some of us who have been

642
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:31.960
going off for for years. We you know, we go.

643
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:33.360
If it was a long trip, we would go to

644
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:35.599
sleep and then wake up, or we get close to shup.

645
00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:37.960
I count to bleds of grass when I'm going out.

646
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:39.639
I don't lose nothing.

647
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:42.360
I don't sleep, I don't blink mind, I watch everything.

648
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:45.920
Ronald has never gone to sleep on the trip, he said,

649
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:46.800
he doesn't even blink.

650
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:49.519
Yeah, cause I hadn't been out for twenty four years,

651
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.840
and I was, you know, very happy to go out

652
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:54.199
out for his trip.

653
00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:57.360
Yeah, it was a long trip.

654
00:44:57.400 --> 00:44:57.679
At that.

655
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:33.760
Three breath, I find your landmark again.

656
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.000
Same ay you came up. Pays you hall the hand

657
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:38.960
over there, lock your fingers and elbows.

658
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:45.000
Fifteen ten, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, eleven,

659
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:48.880
twelveth Okay, as you all know, I'm Georgia Shante Witherspoon

660
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:51.320
and I'm the president of the CPR team.

661
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:54.320
We're serious about what we do with CPR.

662
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:56.960
You know, we just travel and teach anywhere we can go,

663
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:59.440
and we're trying to do this as a means to

664
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.719
reach and give something back to society. But we deal

665
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:04.679
with people who live in at risk life scoles like

666
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.199
you all, or whether there's younger people and so forth.

667
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.159
We're trying to touch them so that they don't come

668
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.760
down the same roads as we do. That you all

669
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:15.239
are in a good position now to really redirect your life.

670
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:20.800
Become independent, become healthy, become whole, and stay out here

671
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.760
in the streets and live your life because if you miss,

672
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:29.320
if you slip, you will be angle a bound.

673
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.440
Don't allow I've tried for twenty five years to get

674
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:34.960
out of prison. Just suait until the family.

675
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:37.119
Right now, we're right here in the heart of Badon Rudge,

676
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.360
downtown Baton Rudge before what's this bank one?

677
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:41.239
And I'm out here.

678
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:42.960
I'm out here with you all, filming and so forth.

679
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.719
You know, there wouldn't be any problem for me to

680
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:49.440
walk away. But the point is I've changed. The point

681
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:53.000
is the thing that I need to do is to

682
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:56.960
be free, and escaping won't give me any type of freedom.

683
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.159
Escaping I'm still on the run. I'm still trapping. I'm

684
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.920
still bound by the same thing that I was bound

685
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:08.079
by twenty five years ago. I want real freedom. I

686
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:10.039
want to be able to walk out of prison and

687
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:11.239
actually say that I'm free.

688
00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:25.000
Don't tell me, I.

689
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:26.880
Say, don't you gonna see this?

690
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:27.239
Here?

691
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.360
I don't think I could be this free on an outside,

692
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:38.199
not from withind You got men walk around out that

693
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:43.320
they have the liberty of the physical body, but they

694
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:43.880
don't have it.

695
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:48.679
But the anybody I was told ignant when I came here.

696
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:51.480
Now they worried ignorant is a not a mob, but

697
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.360
it's spt meaning the lack of knowledge.

698
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:58.280
And I was really itch did when I came here.

699
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:02.000
So now on through the years I submitted myself and

700
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:05.760
now well they be to educated myself. I'll come to

701
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:08.639
be I damn minister. So that's mean to call me

702
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:09.159
a bishop?

703
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:09.960
Tiny yell.

704
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:15.480
Mm, so I'll get that respect.

705
00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:54.440
Now I'm moving out the way.

706
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:58.800
We don't get bishop up and just let the Lord

707
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:00.639
use him as you will.

708
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:15.800
Amen, Oh, yes, the count all right, Yes you found

709
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:16.280
all right?

710
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.480
I bet you you may be, can't y'all?

711
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:22.119
Hear me on them?

712
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:24.320
Praise God?

713
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:28.880
That is the way to the state.

714
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:32.320
And to be born again.

715
00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:40.119
And lito a holy life, yea, a victoris life. I'm

716
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:46.320
God for life, said well, what about being behind Bob, Bishop?

717
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:55.480
God still exists behind bringing Bob, Thank you diesels. He's

718
00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:03.440
sanctified and he qualifies and he's where shall the individual.

719
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.519
That take knowledge of him and repent.

720
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:11.119
I don't care how holdly.

721
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:11.400
That you are.

722
00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:14.119
I don't care how sanctified that you are.

723
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:17.039
I don't care how rich that you are, or how

724
00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:17.880
much you come.

725
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:21.119
To take, Jesus said repet.

726
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:23.239
Repent.

727
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:28.280
I was a young maid, twenty four year old.

728
00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:31.119
Thank you, Jesus, not a maid.

729
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:34.639
It was a maid of good maid on the railroad

730
00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:35.920
track one morning.

731
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.880
And with the crap of my hide and I took

732
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:39.800
that made.

733
00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:42.480
Life, went on down the railroad.

734
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:43.559
Track, got in the.

735
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:48.000
Rock and roll start, and does attained but to pick

736
00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:52.280
me up and restcute me, putting me in jails.

737
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:56.800
I found out that everybody's hated me and despite me.

738
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.960
But I begin to look beyond the cloud, fed the.

739
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.559
Bright glory a pound out a.

740
00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:09.280
Love.

741
00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:20.880
You said, Lord, I'm saying of what I've done. I'n't thread,

742
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:21.639
but I'm done.

743
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:23.880
I'm sorry for what I've done.

744
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:27.639
Wots me save.

745
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:43.360
Repet repetet.

746
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:52.800
After thirty eight years in Angola, Bishop Tennehill was recommended

747
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.000
for pardon to walk out a freeman. All that's required

748
00:51:58.159 --> 00:51:59.280
is the governor's signature.

749
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:01.960
So why isn't you think, Jen that the governor hasn't

750
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:02.840
signed the party.

751
00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:05.159
God having submitted him to sign it.

752
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:11.880
I believe God is still God, and he controlled all nature,

753
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:14.039
and he's the God of all flesh.

754
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.000
I don't think that's nothing too hard for him to do.

755
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.440
If I was ready.

756
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:22.840
From within.

757
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:28.840
To meet the channel from without, then God knows.

758
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.440
Mister Terrio is not eating.

759
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:47.639
He's continuing to lose weight.

760
00:52:48.599 --> 00:52:50.880
There's nothing you can give him that he wants to eat.

761
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:56.000
He's reached the point now to where he's telling us

762
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.119
to me Friday. I think it was that he wanted

763
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:02.719
us to move him into a room and just make

764
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:05.840
sure that he wasn't in pain, because he didn't want

765
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:07.360
any heroics or anything.

766
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:10.400
When a time came for him to die, just let

767
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:14.559
him die. But I cannot put him in a room.

768
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.079
He needs stimulation. He needs people around him. He has

769
00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.400
friends from the dorm where he used to be that

770
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:24.599
comes to see him and they sit and talk to him,

771
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:26.599
and that cheers him up a little bit.

772
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:31.440
And I'm ready for it. I figured a couple of

773
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:33.159
weeks I'll be leaving this planet.

774
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:35.639
Ready to eat.

775
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:36.880
How I've been ready.

776
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:42.639
I'm strayed with the Lord and I know his word,

777
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:46.639
and I'm ready to go that's nothing years not a

778
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:47.079
year for you.

779
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:48.239
No, not really.

780
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:51.519
No, I'm not sad.

781
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:54.079
I'm happy, you know, I'm I'm happy to be going.

782
00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:57.760
Where did he get?

783
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:00.440
He very Oh, I'm not worthy about that.

784
00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:04.519
I'm not worried. I have Uh, I have a plot.

785
00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:08.760
My hometown paid for it. Everything, all my systems blows

786
00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:17.920
all paid for it. And and uh, I think everybody's

787
00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:24.360
gonna be judged and according to to their works and

788
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:29.199
according to their feelings. And you see, every everybody has

789
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:32.559
a spirit in it, and every you have a conscience,

790
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:35.559
and it tells you what to do. And if you

791
00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:39.039
do what it tells you to do, uh, you can

792
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:41.360
pretty well bet you be on the safe side, you know.

793
00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:44.360
But if you tell it, if you do what it

794
00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:46.880
tells you not to do, you can very well be

795
00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:48.800
on the wrong side.

796
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:55.679
It's it's not very hard to understand. And I think

797
00:54:55.719 --> 00:55:00.639
I'm up on the right side. It's just getting time

798
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.920
course to good, that's all I've.

799
00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:03.760
Got to pack it up and.

800
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:06.800
Good, I'm ready.

801
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:21.039
With little possibility of early release, more and more men

802
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:27.400
are facing the likelihood of dying in prison, and while

803
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.679
many are taken out and buried by their families, those

804
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:34.199
inmates without resources are brought to point book out the

805
00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:35.199
prison cemetery.

806
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.400
For most, it's their worst nightmare.

807
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:53.039
To address these and other issues important to the inmate population,

808
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:58.360
and Goa's nationally acclaimed prison magazine has been publishing uncensored

809
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:04.440
investigative reports for the past two decades. The editor of

810
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:08.599
The Angel LIGHTE. Wilbert Rido, himself a former death row inmate,

811
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:13.360
has interviewed every man executed in Louisiana during the last

812
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:14.400
twenty years.

813
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:19.920
Filer, you know, thirty five thirty five since you were

814
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.039
first locked up at age twelve.

815
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:25.239
How long have you been free altogether since you.

816
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:27.400
Were twelve, since you're first locked up?

817
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:29.639
Yeah, every about four years all together.

818
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.760
Since twelve, just four years of your life.

819
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:39.280
I've been in the world, Uh bothers me and I

820
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:41.000
want to know who the bothers John is.

821
00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:46.039
Uh yeah, the way I see, uh, well, the cases

822
00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:48.039
that I'm aware of down down the walk and some

823
00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:48.800
on death Row.

824
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:51.679
There's hundreds of cases that are a lot worse than years.

825
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.800
Yes, I guess they felt like I've been messing.

826
00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:56.639
Up so long they were gonna punish me for it.

827
00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:02.360
You've uh thought about what it's gonna be like, man,

828
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:09.679
what do you conclude?

829
00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:14.039
H Well, I don't like the part where said I've

830
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.320
had the process. They go strough and the far way

831
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:20.239
they stop you from breathing. I just soonly skip over

832
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:21.599
that part and stop my heart.

833
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:28.239
Really well, they're saying a paper where people take deep.

834
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.440
Breath bef you already paralyzed, and what's happening is you suffer,

835
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:34.519
you suffocating and you trying to get a breath.

836
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.519
They ain't gotta stop for breakfast. Really, you know, I'm

837
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:40.880
gonna sell and you paralyze so it won't look violid.

838
00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:44.039
Yeah, but inside your mind is still alive even though

839
00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:44.960
you're supposed.

840
00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:47.639
To be asleep, And I wonder about that. That's that's

841
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:48.400
gonna be a trip.

842
00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:49.159
Yeah.

843
00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:03.119
The execution room, known as the death House, is located

844
00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:11.360
in the most remote camp of the prison. Periodically throughout

845
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:15.599
the year, the staff performs an execution rehearsal to stave

846
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:17.360
off any last minute glitches.

847
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:19.039
I started a pair of good to come right here

848
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:24.440
with you. Could you find a vine with him? With

849
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:30.760
that much pressure on him? They would be difficult?

850
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:32.119
When not do?

851
00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:35.000
Because there which one is? Where's the problem?

852
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:37.840
Okay?

853
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:39.400
So this is this is what happens.

854
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.119
This is.

855
00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:43.599
Okay. Actually I'm coming up now.

856
00:58:44.800 --> 00:58:46.400
One't tend you don't want to cut these things?

857
00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:47.840
Do go?

858
00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:48.679
You stick them?

859
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:50.000
Trained up? You want to cut these off?

860
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:51.800
If that's probably gonna here, I don't want you to

861
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.199
cut them off. Hey, let's kind of attach you stick

862
00:58:54.199 --> 00:58:55.320
it now.

863
00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:55.639
Let it.

864
00:58:55.719 --> 00:58:58.000
Let's pretend something to cover everything.

865
00:58:58.559 --> 00:58:59.360
Everybody go out.

866
00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:00.480
Let's pretend were doing it.

867
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:02.679
See he got his head up pretty good?

868
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:06.280
Okay? Did it take you for y'all?

869
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:13.079
Holy you ain't ain't leaving this no pressure, pressure or

870
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:14.599
turning head and see what happened?

871
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:18.079
Still you let's just say that.

872
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:22.320
All right, that's good, that's good. Tough one?

873
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:22.559
Two?

874
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.800
Three to can y'all hear me talk? Can y'all hear me?

875
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:26.280
Pretty good?

876
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:28.000
I'm whispering.

877
00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:29.960
Come be a witness right over here and see if

878
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.760
this blocked your view. And if he's laying on a

879
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.840
table and you're set, if you were sitting down though

880
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:40.719
it block your view. Lord van Noy, you'll you be

881
00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:42.880
the one that's a signed when when you go back out,

882
00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:43.920
you'll move it over to here.

883
00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:49.880
Okay, that's that we did. Okay, how that feel?

884
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.199
H John Brown's only hope to avoid execution is a

885
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:07.199
stay from the courts or a pardon from the governor.

886
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:11.760
The process begins with a hearing before the pardon board.

887
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:17.880
We because they to consider the application John Ashley Brown,

888
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:25.360
who has been sence to jail. Mister Brown, it has

889
01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.840
a five or commutation or that that's sense to a license.

890
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:39.079
John Brown fully emmits's taard than it's terrible pawn and

891
01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:41.400
for not one moment had he ever sought to blind

892
01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:45.840
anybody else. This is not a case about actually any sense.

893
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:50.360
This is not a case started leading technicalities. This is

894
01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:53.760
a case that dues in our minds to the lawyer

895
01:00:54.039 --> 01:00:58.199
serious constitutional issues that we had to be addressed, and

896
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:00.880
that had him not an address by the chorus.

897
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:07.679
We've heard about mister Brown's part and Remo's untimely and

898
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:11.320
violent death part very skillfully chosen.

899
01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:11.840
His part.

900
01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:14.880
His part was to choose a weapon, find a victim,

901
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:18.000
kill them and take their money. That's his part beginning

902
01:01:18.079 --> 01:01:22.280
to end totality. No parts about it. We've heard about

903
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:26.199
about brain damage, but we know about the brain damage

904
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.440
inflicted by a seven inch bowie k I threw the

905
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.199
nose and into the brain that in the second stab

906
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:34.840
wound which went through the heart, surely felt mister Laflin's death,

907
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:37.480
but that wasn't enough. There were eleven more stab wounds,

908
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.320
wounds in the back, wounds on the leg. We've seen

909
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:43.000
testimony that the perpetrator was out of breath and covered

910
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:43.519
with blood.

911
01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:46.719
Of course, he was in literally a life and death struggle.

912
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:50.199
We've heard today about the letter writing campaigns from death row,

913
01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.159
yet the postman never fraught my mother a single vetter

914
01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:56.599
for remorse from anywhere. We've heard about deathbeds inversions. We've

915
01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:59.440
heard about nuns going to comfort a man on death row.

916
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:02.920
These people called my mother. Nobody called and said, I

917
01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:05.159
want you to understand mis Laughlin, that while we are

918
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:07.639
standing up for this man, we understand that you.

919
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:08.519
Have concerns too.

920
01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:13.559
We could trace the supposed rehabilitation and have a supposed

921
01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:16.440
progress that a man who's majored in gold. But at

922
01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:18.960
the same time I have an unfinished astray from an

923
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.159
arts and crafts kit that my mother was unable to complete,

924
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:24.000
a project made.

925
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:25.360
For a five to eight year old.

926
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:28.519
My mother, while on the eighth floor of Toro Hospital,

927
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.960
was unable to complete the simple asterrak. She's gone through

928
01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:36.079
powerwood fits of putting a luminum four on the windows

929
01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:38.880
so that people couldn't look in. Slept for a year

930
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:42.159
with a gun under her pillow for fear that someone

931
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:47.119
could escape from Angola and come seek revenge on her, revenge.

932
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:47.039
For what.

933
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.239
My family is not calling for vengeance.

934
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:54.920
There will be no celebration, no cause to celeb There'll

935
01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:58.719
be no rejoicing in this at all. It will, however,

936
01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:01.559
we will take some home in knowing that there's a

937
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:02.360
closure to this.

938
01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:03.880
Ugly chapter in our lives.

939
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.079
The Pardon Board rejected John Brown's application for Clement City.

940
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:29.800
I wish there were more forgiveness from the victims, for

941
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.199
those of them made who actually are worthy of forgiveness.

942
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.079
And then you say, well, he murdered and killed, and

943
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:37.760
he did all the trible things. He's never worthy of forgiveness.

944
01:03:38.360 --> 01:03:39.239
But it's not medical.

945
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:41.239
If you're a Christian, you gotta believe in forgiveness.

946
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:43.199
Reel hard.

947
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:46.760
He murdered my son, You needn't be hard. That's the

948
01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:51.920
battle between the spiritual and the world. That's the struggle

949
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:54.880
of life itself. And you see that struggle at the prison.

950
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:56.880
We see that struggle better than anybody else.

951
01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:01.639
We see what nobody else sees. No, it's sad what

952
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:02.159
we say.

953
01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:09.840
And this afternoon you're listening to KSP ninety one point

954
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.199
seven on your family dollar from Louisiana State Penitentiary, and

955
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:13.679
it ain't going.

956
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:17.079
This is the Rock and Robin and this is December.

957
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:20.199
The twenty four is Christmas Eve, and I'm gonna play

958
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:21.599
you some Christmas music.

959
01:04:22.280 --> 01:04:24.920
Hope you're doing. Find out there and remember to keep.

960
01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:27.800
Up the Christmas spirits and remember the loved ones out

961
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:28.960
there celebrating Christmas.

962
01:04:28.960 --> 01:04:30.960
And I know they wished to we could be there.

963
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:33.119
It w'et but morning day maybe we will.

964
01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:50.239
Oh oh oh oh oh ohouh oh oh oh oh oh.

965
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:11.400
In Camp Jay and Goala's most restrictive and punitive cell block,

966
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:18.119
inmates are in twenty three hours solitary lockdown to stave

967
01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:22.960
off suicide and violence caused by holiday depression. The administration

968
01:05:23.239 --> 01:05:24.639
organizes religious visits.

969
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:26.800
We just want you to know that you're not totally forgotten.

970
01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:27.440
Jay.

971
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:28.360
See how are you doing?

972
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:31.639
Bet you ain't seen a sideline?

973
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:35.760
Isn't a while we can trying to figure out who does?

974
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:35.880
It?

975
01:05:35.920 --> 01:05:36.960
Gives me a fair strang.

976
01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:41.760
Okay, tomorrow's Christmas.

977
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:42.880
And just remember what it's all about.

978
01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:48.559
It's not it's not all of this mine of gifts

979
01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:50.400
and everything that's from the man upstairs.

980
01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:51.920
Just remember that.

981
01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:56.000
Word, it's all about. That will build you up, Okay,

982
01:05:57.920 --> 01:05:59.840
And I can guarantee you we'll be back open.

983
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.320
I may not land like you here for next Christmas.

984
01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:06.320
No, don't you know. Yeah, we come up and checking

985
01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:07.360
on y'all for the holidays.

986
01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:11.239
You have to see what's going on and say, make

987
01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:15.400
sure y'all spirit yea heading up at least, you know.

988
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:18.159
For the holidays, see what keeps you going.

989
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:22.320
And we wanna come and check on y'all for the holiday, say.

990
01:06:22.239 --> 01:06:26.320
I make sure your spirited up and it's all right

991
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.679
and probably just all up and where are Yeah, that's.

992
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:31.159
All man.

993
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:54.920
Might thank you.

994
01:06:58.239 --> 01:06:58.760
Hey, you do it?

995
01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:12.079
Sircus the Maiden, and he'd come here and look down

996
01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:14.719
through here. Ever, look down looks like you're looking through

997
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.880
tunnels and caves to the wady to wire. We'll see

998
01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:21.239
how all this micro security prism as we could keep

999
01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:23.320
the despair down and keep the hope up, and you

1000
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:24.760
won't have anybody try to escape.

1001
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:28.840
And they have to try to learn to get out

1002
01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:29.480
the right way.

1003
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:33.079
And that's legally and so forth and uh, even though

1004
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:35.000
you have a life center, he can't.

1005
01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:37.519
Give up hope and our job believe to keep the hope.

1006
01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:40.079
And I have hope for him, you know, I do

1007
01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:43.679
for the good one that wanna do better then you

1008
01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:45.880
always like winning the lottery, you know, the hope you

1009
01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.280
get a the governor signed a pardon for you, and

1010
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:53.320
and maybe someday you'll get out and another few get

1011
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:56.760
goes free. Probably eighty five percent of the inmate here

1012
01:07:56.960 --> 01:07:59.280
that are here now would die here.

1013
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:01.960
Just marry Christmas before we'll see what Chrestia.

1014
01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:03.760
No, you're doing good boy.

1015
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:06.280
I appreciate it. Thank you for having my Paul Randy.

1016
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:09.559
Oh yeah, we just waiting for one last document that

1017
01:08:09.639 --> 01:08:11.480
he needs. If he gets that up there be able

1018
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:14.000
to complete as old ready I wanted.

1019
01:08:14.119 --> 01:08:14.599
I'll tell you what.

1020
01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.119
I'll tell you what I want to say. This one

1021
01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:18.720
ain't my lawyers and why we need in my lawyer?

1022
01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:18.920
Did?

1023
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:21.359
We don't want to inviody in our pro that's all

1024
01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.840
make you left innocent? Answer man ought ought to.

1025
01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:25.159
Be in pro.

1026
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.039
That's the one thing the lawyer too to do a

1027
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:29.399
real good job of working on read the sentences and

1028
01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:30.960
mnciations and then we've seen.

1029
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:32.279
Tonian man go pray later.

1030
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:35.960
That's what's immortal. All right, Okay, okay you take Mary

1031
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:37.319
correct me at Christians Junior family.

1032
01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:38.720
Okay, three layers.

1033
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:39.840
All right, how about the.

1034
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:42.439
Time you have well, you know how it's seventy five years.

1035
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:44.319
I've been myself twenty five years on that.

1036
01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:45.760
I'm eliens for paroles.

1037
01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:50.279
I yelled for now. Yes, come up, okay, got fifty

1038
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.800
to go. If you don't, you get a little dread now.

1039
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:17.239
Come to see bombs all right, all right, leaning, yeah, hey,

1040
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:21.720
bom man, we brought you from the bomb.

1041
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:29.039
The boy, he said, oh.

1042
01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:35.439
Bomb all right, you can see.

1043
01:09:35.760 --> 01:09:39.520
Yeah, all right, young man, you all right?

1044
01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:41.680
Yeah, yeah, I brought your salad.

1045
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.800
Bro brought your salad. But now we have some more fruit.

1046
01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:48.680
But all know, b look a look up there you

1047
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:51.600
getting big now, boy, And that ain't it look good?

1048
01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:52.880
And I was the other day.

1049
01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:57.359
A black hole up them and they tell me you

1050
01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.079
don't uh union made peace and you you.

1051
01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:03.319
Ready to cash in? I said, I made my peace

1052
01:10:04.359 --> 01:10:05.279
and ready to cash in.

1053
01:10:05.319 --> 01:10:07.920
And people want but I ain't call it the above though.

1054
01:10:09.560 --> 01:10:14.479
No, hold, I might not do that as a pall.

1055
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:25.800
It's not where you go it's how you go. You

1056
01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:28.720
can the ball, you know what I mean.

1057
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:32.079
You could kick and scream and holler and do everything

1058
01:10:32.159 --> 01:10:34.319
you want. And where are you going?

1059
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:36.279
Sad home to the same place.

1060
01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:39.760
Most of the guys in this place, none of them

1061
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:42.079
want to go in here, I mean, you know they.

1062
01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:47.199
I guess that's the biggest nightmare of the typical guy

1063
01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:49.079
in this place is to die in prison.

1064
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:51.520
And if and if you put three feet on the

1065
01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:53.800
other side, I'll be have to say, well, I died

1066
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:58.119
out of prison, and stay of mind, you know, just

1067
01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:00.840
stay putting me three feet on the other side and buried,

1068
01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:03.960
and when you bed to say that I died on

1069
01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:05.000
the other sides.

1070
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:07.800
You know, not only diamond prison, but being buried in here.

1071
01:11:08.119 --> 01:11:11.439
I guess you're more fortunate than most is. You know

1072
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:13.600
your family was not a tough to take you out.

1073
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:15.840
But I'm gonna tell you the secret before you go

1074
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:16.319
too far.

1075
01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:18.920
Well, I'm not going with my family.

1076
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:23.239
I told my sisters there. I had my insurance policy

1077
01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:28.119
paid up, my love's paid off park and insurance policy

1078
01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:31.279
and everything. And I'm getting very right up here.

1079
01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:34.039
That's right.

1080
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:39.560
That's why my friend thought, hmm, that is blessed me.

1081
01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:40.680
Oh, Mama.

1082
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:45.720
Always had good jobs, always had this, always had that.

1083
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:48.600
And all I had to do is look up there

1084
01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:51.319
and say, God, I'll need something, and you give it

1085
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:51.600
to me.

1086
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:54.000
That's all I had to do.

1087
01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:58.800
And I wasn't mad enough to buy down the hill

1088
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:03.960
because I didn't want to be poor, and I wanted

1089
01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:06.039
this and I wanted that. I thought that's what it

1090
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:10.800
was all about. I thought all that was about life.

1091
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:16.920
But when it came time to go, I knew I

1092
01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:21.000
had messed up. I knew right then I had messed up.

1093
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:26.039
I had enough sense to turn around in and ask

1094
01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:28.079
him and this some more time.

1095
01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:31.520
Even it's in prison.

1096
01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:36.840
I don't like person, you know, I don't believe nobody

1097
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:39.359
likes prisoner. I don't like prison.

1098
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.079
But I wanted some more time so I could get

1099
01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:42.960
you know it.

1100
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:45.720
And I've done that, and.

1101
01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:51.039
That's all that was for me. And I wish Eldiod

1102
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:51.600
could find it.

1103
01:12:53.359 --> 01:13:01.039
You know, all the Yoda out of your bluffer.

1104
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:03.800
We fall apart you No, you ain't gonna ball a part.

1105
01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:07.680
Yeah, I be good. UH got the last tick care

1106
01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:09.000
of him man, and we love it.

1107
01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:11.439
Sure work.

1108
01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:14.000
We can both love me. Pree you take cam bat

1109
01:13:14.359 --> 01:13:16.279
that I'll be back for the week.

1110
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:18.520
After the tat you take candle right very directly, do

1111
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:20.039
you think doing about okay?

1112
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:23.720
I think very alright, very rests ye give me some time.

1113
01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:28.399
Way you the brief, see you tomorrow man right, all

1114
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.520
Prince's thing, Harry, Christs Christmas.

1115
01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:33.439
I'm'a say attend you and Sarah and Bay last year.

1116
01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:39.079
Goody eat that's the pigurekay and you got to Uhalian director.

1117
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:41.199
They gonna take character.

1118
01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:43.760
You can be y m you take too, all.

1119
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:49.319
Right, sure, knife and then the cover.

1120
01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:12.560
As you fellas know, we're on the flood watch soul.

1121
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.640
Just stay prepared and be ready. Warden came to be

1122
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:18.720
in later to let you know the latest update on

1123
01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:19.520
what's going on.

1124
01:14:20.760 --> 01:14:23.039
We have to evacuate fellas and go to Tenth City.

1125
01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:27.199
Be ready to move because the water will take no prisoners.

1126
01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:29.079
And as we get ready to go, we're going in

1127
01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:30.359
with our regular.

1128
01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:31.720
Broadcast in the day's gospel.

1129
01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:45.239
Here we go, Jesus, Jesus.

1130
01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:55.039
That spring, the Mississippi River rose to its highest level

1131
01:14:55.119 --> 01:15:10.399
in a century. If the levees were to break, the prison,

1132
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:14.600
including inmates locked, the cells would be underwater within four

1133
01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:22.159
to six hours. Plans to evacuate were put in effect,

1134
01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:26.000
and all of Angola worked through the night sandbagging to

1135
01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:28.560
save the farm from the might of the Mississippi.

1136
01:15:34.279 --> 01:15:36.199
So we had to we just had to wipe flame.

1137
01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:37.000
Prayer would make it.

1138
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:39.720
When you look over crowds here and you see all

1139
01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:41.960
of lights, and you know, know all those inmates ren

1140
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.920
noo sails in that prism and you think, no, I

1141
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.119
want to go run five thousand out tonight. Well I

1142
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:48.880
don't want to run five thousand now right now.

1143
01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:50.399
I'm on white a little longer.

1144
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:51.319
We're gonna keep on white.

1145
01:15:52.399 --> 01:15:53.239
You know, we don't know.

1146
01:15:54.199 --> 01:16:03.159
I think we're okay. We just had to sleep. You

1147
01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:06.039
can see the water and higher here than than the road.

1148
01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:09.840
There's never been a higher.

1149
01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:17.680
If their horses saddle, they say, when we move the horses,

1150
01:16:17.720 --> 01:16:20.720
they're gonna know it's serious if we like the horses.

1151
01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:25.600
But we're gonna all hanging together. Let's see those roofs.

1152
01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:27.119
You can't even get out of this on the roofs.

1153
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:34.359
M The river forced its way right to the edge

1154
01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:38.880
of the prison, but a week later gently subsided.

1155
01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:43.600
It was back to business as usual at Angola.

1156
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:53.079
Mm HMMs about.

1157
01:16:52.960 --> 01:16:54.920
So they shot off.

1158
01:16:56.560 --> 01:17:01.720
Cries plcasts, Yeah, the off top.

1159
01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:05.119
So what's next when he steps to hear from the

1160
01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:06.920
court justce eve meen sometime.

1161
01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:08.720
But I I gotta move in themorning.

1162
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:10.239
They gonna move in the morning.

1163
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.680
To twenty seven year. If we don't hear nothing about

1164
01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:17.399
a season, I gotta start it. I don't wanna say

1165
01:17:17.800 --> 01:17:18.800
sort my stuff out?

1166
01:17:18.920 --> 01:17:19.640
Yea, what do I want to do?

1167
01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:22.319
What I want to send home or what I want

1168
01:17:22.359 --> 01:17:23.119
to get into the family.

1169
01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:25.079
See, he's still pretty off on it.

1170
01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:27.199
Now.

1171
01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:32.039
It ain't finally yet, especially cause I don't wanna.

1172
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:32.720
Go to my style.

1173
01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:35.880
So I'm hope when they do it, well, if they

1174
01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:38.479
don't rule it go all the way over into tomorrow

1175
01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:40.079
to the actual dent.

1176
01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:42.720
It'll still be pending here.

1177
01:17:44.039 --> 01:17:46.399
But they said he was gonna over it yesterday or today,

1178
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:50.000
And the longer they hold it it stops us from

1179
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:51.079
going in the other courts.

1180
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:55.239
I don't really have an opinion.

1181
01:17:55.359 --> 01:17:57.800
I think it probably might pretty good chance it will,

1182
01:17:58.680 --> 01:18:01.479
but he thinks it's not now. If it does happen,

1183
01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:03.680
once he realizes it's gonnappen, he gonna think it's not

1184
01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:06.279
all the way up to the end, and finally he

1185
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:08.439
gonna I don't know if he ever thinks it will,

1186
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:10.239
I don't know.

1187
01:18:32.199 --> 01:18:36.600
With the sixteen hours remaining before his scheduled execution, John

1188
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:40.880
Brown is transferred from death row to Camp F the

1189
01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:41.600
death house.

1190
01:19:09.319 --> 01:19:27.319
M m.

1191
01:19:35.720 --> 01:19:44.640
Mmm mm.

1192
01:19:50.840 --> 01:19:52.760
I wonder what you give in salatis in court.

1193
01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:55.760
Well, evidently they having a conflict. It could be good,

1194
01:19:55.800 --> 01:20:00.479
it could be bad, but they seemed to be kind

1195
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:02.760
of mixed right now. We just hope our side went.

1196
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:07.000
Somebody's pansy bricks read it. We just hope inside breaks

1197
01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:10.960
four hours. So if you've never been down here before, no,

1198
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:12.159
I ain't never been here before.

1199
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:13.399
It I.

1200
01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:18.479
Like the son.

1201
01:20:26.239 --> 01:20:28.359
At eleven o'clock. We're gonna read the scripture with all

1202
01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:30.640
the folks over there, with our people. We're gonna do it.

1203
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:31.920
We talked to that already about it.

1204
01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:32.439
We're gonna do it.

1205
01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:35.479
We're gonna read we have We're gonna read the We're

1206
01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:36.560
gonna we're gonna read it again.

1207
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:38.319
We're gonna say a prayer for ourselves. Were gonna ask

1208
01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:41.079
forgiveness if we're doing something wrong. And uh, that's what

1209
01:20:41.159 --> 01:20:43.359
we're gonna do. This is this is just life and

1210
01:20:43.399 --> 01:20:45.039
that's what we do. And I feel real good with it.

1211
01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:46.640
You know, if I didn't feel good with it. I

1212
01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:47.199
wouldn't do it.

1213
01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:49.000
Now that I want to do it, I like to

1214
01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:51.039
do it. But we're okay, we're gonna be fine.

1215
01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:55.960
We're gonna all die and he's just getting out of

1216
01:20:55.960 --> 01:20:58.720
this worldless way tonight and so let's just hope he

1217
01:20:58.800 --> 01:20:59.399
goes to heaven.

1218
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.359
I feel like he will, so we feel okay.

1219
01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:05.640
Do you believe in God?

1220
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:06.479
Yeah?

1221
01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:09.880
Did you believe in having?

1222
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:10.760
Yeah?

1223
01:21:12.439 --> 01:21:13.960
What's it take for you to get to have him?

1224
01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:22.079
To be christ Like as much as you can? And

1225
01:21:22.600 --> 01:21:24.239
I don't know if I got that for yet.

1226
01:21:36.680 --> 01:21:39.560
He had a meal of of a boil cross fishes

1227
01:21:39.560 --> 01:21:41.560
what he wanted to eat, and he ate plenty, ate

1228
01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:42.119
a lot and.

1229
01:21:42.279 --> 01:21:45.840
Uh and his crackers and coats and such as that.

1230
01:21:48.880 --> 01:21:51.239
When his family left then he got upset pretty much

1231
01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:55.840
was he would normally maybe expect. We did our own

1232
01:21:55.880 --> 01:21:57.640
thing with him as best we could and cut him

1233
01:21:57.640 --> 01:22:08.880
backgrounded at twelve twelve pm.

1234
01:22:09.640 --> 01:22:14.720
We sent a soul for final judgment. The last thing

1235
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.479
he said he actually said a wow.

1236
01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:49.720
Yeah, Well, I don't think we ever give up hope,

1237
01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:52.720
And that's where God comes to play in it, because

1238
01:22:52.760 --> 01:22:55.399
when we give up hope of being free here we

1239
01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:56.920
have to pick up and say, well, we're going to

1240
01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:57.840
be free when we die.

1241
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:00.840
It's the Thank God, and believe in heaven.

1242
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:01.920
Thank God.

1243
01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:08.319
We believe it's not over. When it's over, it's just

1244
01:23:08.439 --> 01:23:08.880
over here.

1245
01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:15.159
The first thing I wanna do when I get I

1246
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:18.520
don't wanna take a bath. I know that might sound strange,

1247
01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:20.439
but you know the little small things that you missed

1248
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:23.199
by being incarcerated that you remember it brought you so

1249
01:23:23.319 --> 01:23:26.159
much joy when you were younger. And I like to

1250
01:23:26.239 --> 01:23:27.680
go out, and you know, I like to take a back.

1251
01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:30.239
I like to sit down in the bathtub. It's soaking

1252
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:33.000
a bathtub and just enjoy Its just just sitting there

1253
01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:33.600
for a little water.

1254
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:45.760
You get out of what was the first thing you're doing.

1255
01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:46.039
Oo.

1256
01:23:47.880 --> 01:23:54.239
It would be so much overfloating for joy Ad, and

1257
01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:59.399
it would be hard for me to really express myself

1258
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:03.520
because he would be such a joy and such a

1259
01:24:03.640 --> 01:24:10.239
womanness just to even smell the atmophear of society, to

1260
01:24:10.319 --> 01:24:11.319
be at libert there.

1261
01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:15.680
He would be out of sight for me.

1262
01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.079
I loved freedom for years.

1263
01:24:38.279 --> 01:24:43.920
I've had dreams of traveling through tunnels, and when I

1264
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:46.399
got to the end, that was freedom.

1265
01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.000
If it's the Lord's will for me to be free,

1266
01:24:51.920 --> 01:24:54.039
be free, and I believe that.

1267
01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:24.199
Just thank me, Mama. Ever leaves, just please if I'm

1268
01:25:24.239 --> 01:25:28.520
ever leave, that my main concerned. That's what I'm focused

1269
01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:30.399
on right now. I'm ever leave.

1270
01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:55.119
Really vurial committee up in there and go and y'all, Bones,

1271
01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:57.039
everybody was killing Yeah, let's selling.

1272
01:25:57.239 --> 01:25:59.319
Okay, you're a sign. Hey man, your dad was a

1273
01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:01.479
great man. He was the inspirational you.

1274
01:26:01.479 --> 01:26:03.239
Know man, he was the last thing.

1275
01:26:03.279 --> 01:26:05.479
He told us the other day that uh, you know,

1276
01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:08.680
he got right with God and he was prepared, you know,

1277
01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:10.079
and they got a couple of guys here was gonna

1278
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:10.920
talk to you lay there.

1279
01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:14.119
But we knew Bones. He always told us that this

1280
01:26:14.279 --> 01:26:15.039
is where he wanted to be.

1281
01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:19.520
You know why why this lot some plate?

1282
01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:22.840
Well, he said and quote, you know, you didn't know

1283
01:26:22.880 --> 01:26:25.119
anybody out there, and he loved y'all.

1284
01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:25.920
Don't get me wrong.

1285
01:26:26.199 --> 01:26:29.000
He wanted to be here because his friends, you know,

1286
01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:30.439
we'd be able to come back and holler at him,

1287
01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:31.479
you know, take care, Bones.

1288
01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:33.079
She wouldn't really know anybody out there.

1289
01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:38.279
But y'all, really, bottom line, after he's dead, you can

1290
01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:39.159
do anything you want.

1291
01:26:39.279 --> 01:26:41.039
And I understood there was some of the ship was

1292
01:26:41.159 --> 01:26:41.640
my sister.

1293
01:26:41.800 --> 01:26:45.119
He gave her a palm of attorney, and she didn't

1294
01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:48.920
even ask his chalk. She didn't ask me because it

1295
01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:50.279
wouldn't have happened like this.

1296
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:52.800
You would have taken oh, yes, I'd have taken.

1297
01:26:52.640 --> 01:26:55.319
Him, y'all would not y'all would have took him to Yes,

1298
01:26:55.399 --> 01:26:57.560
we'd have taken him even though he wanted to be

1299
01:26:57.640 --> 01:26:58.039
buried here.

1300
01:26:58.199 --> 01:27:01.079
Yes, we didn't put him as to Mom and Daddy

1301
01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:02.520
for bloone.

1302
01:27:04.239 --> 01:27:07.439
His promised he didn't want to be a burden words

1303
01:27:07.479 --> 01:27:08.960
and he wasn't a burden.

1304
01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:10.479
No, he wasn't a burden.

1305
01:27:10.520 --> 01:27:11.000
I'll see that.

1306
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:11.279
Man.

1307
01:27:11.359 --> 01:27:14.439
We love I mean, we love your dad, man, I

1308
01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:15.199
mean we loved it.

1309
01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:33.359
Free, I free, no long about no more change in me.

1310
01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:37.239
My soul in resting?

1311
01:27:40.000 --> 01:27:52.439
Did that some blessed? Really? Lord, Loulia and free and

1312
01:27:53.399 --> 01:28:16.640
free fred long free, Oh my.

1313
01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:30.560
Boy?

1314
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:31.319
Coming?

1315
01:28:35.880 --> 01:28:47.479
Then come the Lord com faultily my.

1316
01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:49.399
Sole, this wepping.

1317
01:28:51.279 --> 01:28:55.560
That the blessing? Yeah, Lord,