Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.