I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
Prison works.
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
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