conversations of conviction
After serving 12 years for drug trafficking I kept in contact with my friends in prison, and vowed to expose the corruption of our prisons and courts.. Discover how these systems profit from the lives of so many, leaving destroyed families in the wake of greed. Thousands of people are in prisons serving years for negligible offenses and are being use as a means to fill bed space so that a few elite can elicit more funding. thousands are serving life w/out parole and never had hurt anyone. The courts have put up walls of corruption to prevent appealing, and until now, have kept us silent behind the steel bars of injustice. Some are actually innocent of the charges and will demonstrate to you, and explain how it is that the courts have the ability to incarcerate and silence innocent people. Most of these crimes were murder & Some details may be upsetting. And what you thought you knew of the murder may have been all wrong. I personally apologize to the families of the deceased, but I would want to know the truth. These are the conversations of their conviction. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT TO STOP INJUSTICE. STAND WITH US
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If we don't let the courts and our government know that we are watching them, they will continue to ignore our Constitutional rights. No one is safe from their abuse or being thrown into a prison cell to generate them more wealth, until we stand together. Here are some examples of why we need to unite that my friend and I talk about during a prison visit.
Two days after Tupac was murdered, in 1996, Reginald and a friend of his were arrested and charged with the robbery of a Seiko watch and 8 dollars. He was sentenced to 37 and 1/2 years to 75 years in a Pennsylvania State prison. He has maintained that he is innocent, but the courts have refused to even listen to his appeals because he did not file in time. This is such a common issue in Pennsylvania and because they don't come from...
Regardless of the crimes we commit, regardless of the sentence we receive, our Moms tend to remain by our side. I've read so many heartbreaking questions from moms after their child has been thrown in prison. I hope this helps you, moms. Jay's mom has done more than the average mom. She has made prison and sentence reform her mission because her son was forced to take Life Without Parole as opposed to a sentence of Death at the age...
Bashir and I did 10 years in prison together. He was released before me, and when I got out, I couldn't find him. I learned that he was trying to get home from the hospital when 2 Pottstown police officers approached and tried to apprehend him based on a person's description. He was put into a fight-or-flight situation, and after the things we have been through, flight isn't an option. The police lied and said he had "reached for t...
Matthew Garcia has Life without the possibility of parole despite not ever having hurt anyone. He was a child, and he was with someone who had got into an altercation with someone else - they wrestled over a gun - it went off - a life lost - then Matthew's life lost to the Pennsylvania depatment of correction. In Pa that's the law, it's called felony murder. Matt has 27 years in prison and has accomplished more than most people in ...
This is a story of actual innocence - 21 years later, Jason Perez is still in a Pennsylvania state prison - and after all of the witnesses came forward to say that they were forced to lie at trial by the Philadelphia police. His case has been reopened, and he needs our help to make sure that he is not left or forgotten in prison. Jason Perez # GE-6365 (he can receive emails through ConnectNetwork.com - add the Pa Department of Corr...
There has been too much injustice in this country. It's time we begin to have the discussion on what we're going to do about it. My friend in prison and I will begin the discussion, but first, we'll explain why it's important for us to unite.
This is my friend Death Row Joe. I had always enjoyed walking the prison yard with him in the morning. He was very intelligent and offered great conversations. But he had anger issues, and where most of us may get so mad at a person, we might say things like "I would kill them." Joe, would actually kill them.
In Pennsylvania there are so many courts you can appeal to. If you're found guilty of a crime you're innocent of it's because your rights were not protected during the court proceeding. When you realize which rights were violated you have to first appeal to the very judge that allowed your rights to be violated. There is no consequences for a judge or district attorney to violate your rights. In fact, if you do ever appeal to a cou...
Nearly twent years ago, Philadelphia was corrupt, like an episode of Batman. The District attorneys and judges were focused on one thing, CONVICTION RATE. Their goons were the Philadelphia homicide detective unit, otherwise known as "THE DO NOT CALL LIST." The courts had this list of their corrupt officers for years that they wouldn't call to testify because they couldn't risk having them on the stand. Their work was still critical...
Sam has a prison sentence of life without parole and has been diagnosed with cancer. The prison is going out of their way to deny him treatment because of the costs. It's become too common in our prisons that people are being denied adequate treatment because it impedes their profit margin. Sam's nephew, Teddy, joins us and we talk about the disparity in time between prisons and the world.
When I was released from prison, I didn't even know what a podcast was. I didn't know how to use these new cards to buy something, and I couldn't understand why everyone was delivering food to peoples porches as I drove up the road. This is from a visit I had with my friend Aaron (who has been in prison since he was 15 years old - in 2001). I was explaining to him all of this strange stuff I was seeing and it's funny to look back o...
Augie and I are two examples of becoming a product of the system. We both were arrested at a young age for offenses that shouldn't have been used to incarcerate children. We were put on probation and parole, and the system raised us from there. Minor infractions sent us to prison while on probation or parole, where we then were educated on criminology. I turned 18 inside a Texas jail and instead of learning about biology, I was tau...
Our courts are too infatuated to incarcerate people to boast their reputation and this distorts any humility they may have had. Pat McCamey accepts that he was in the wrong to buy marijuana at a time when it was illegal. But when the dealer, who had a repuatation of losing it and being aggresive, attacked him with a knife - stabbing him in his femoral artery, he had no choice but to protect himself. The court omitted evidence from ...
In today's society it behooves us to learn how to protect ourselves from nefarious actors. I know we all would like to believe that all of our judges, prosecutors, and officers are here to protect and serve. However, That's not always the case. Just as I have discovered good people in prison, I have found bad people in uniform. So I put together a few episodes I'd like to share, that are of my friend in prison & I, explaining how t...
I was a teenager when I met Earl Gale (Shakur) in Graterford prison, in Pennsylvania. He had already been in for nearly 15 years. He was the first person I met who was sentenced to remain in prison until death. Today, he has nearly 35 years in, and he's being reviewed for commutation, which is like a pardon for good behavior. I have thought about our conversations we had many times as I grew up. Words of wisdom that could only come...
The irreparable damage to a persons mind begins in the county jail as they await trial. The not-knowing what's about to happen to you becomes so overwhelming that it makes you beg the court to just sentence you...to anything...just get it over with. It takes years in prison to develop the patience to handle things like that. I have spent nearly two decades of my life in prison. That's half. My friend Aaron is my age, and he has bee...
When I first got out of prison I turned to websites like YouTube, Quora, and Reddit to understand a lot of the new technology and changes made to the world. As I asked my own questions, I read many about prison life. While talking to my friend Jay, I thought of asking some of the questions posted, for him and I to answer. Jay has nearly a decade in prison and has been in since he was nineteen with a sentence of life without the pos...
I met Stephen Poaches several years ago in the law library at a prison in Pennsylvania. Like most people in prison, he said that he was innocent. My response was always, "I can't believe you're innocent until I see it for myself (It just didn't seem likely that all of these people professing their innocents' was true after going through our judicial process - of course, later I learned how flawed our judicial process is, and that t...
The reason for mass incarceration stems soley from addiction. From any angle you look, the majority of crimes committed were a direct result of drugs. It was only recently that I was introduced to Medication Assisted Treatment, ie., M.A.T., and I believe it has not only saved my life, but the lives of so many others. I also am certain that the ignorance of this treatment is leading to the deaths of thousands. Prison is a perfect pl...
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