Survivors Guide to Prison Page #14

We have to demand

once and for all

an end to policing

and prisons for profit.

At least half of the people

in there are in there

for crimes of addiction

or economic desperation

or mental health.

Instead of just throwing

everybody

that we've decided

we can't help into prison...

Use the money for restorative

justice programs,

rehabs, and social services.

There has to be

citizen oversight

and accountability

for all our public servants.

Luckily for us, we have access

to all of the data.

If you have any interest

in justice or equal access

to opportunity in this country,

all the data,

luckily, is out there.

It's just a matter

of whether you give a sh*t.

Our survival depends

on being logical.

Our survival depends

on being smart.

And our survival depends

on love...

for each other....

And, um...

love for yourself.

[female reporter] And a good

Monday morning to you.

California man finally free

after serving 16 years

for a crime he didn't commit.

[Reggie] I didn't think

it was real until I saw

my attorneys in visiting, and...

I'm trying to describe

the feeling.

It was an unbelievable feeling.

It was just an emotional

roller coaster that, you know...

I mean,

I cried walking out.

It was just the magnitude

of all these years

and, like, now here it is.

And then a moment later,

I would be too bewildered

to cry

and I would just be...

[chuckles]

That... that whole day

was really scary for me.

A lot of people, like,

think that they would be like,

"Yay," but I was terrified.

There were well-wishers...

well-wishers there of officers

that knew the...

I think they knew the truth

and certainly knew

the character,

you know, my character.

And then

I was in the parking lot.

The air smelled different.

I wish my mom

could've been there.

I wish my dad

could've been there.

I wish my stepmom

could've been there.

But I think in a way they were.

And it was good.

It was good.

Like, once I got on the other

side with my attorneys,

I just felt like running,

like just getting as far away

from that place

as I possibly could.

That's probably not the answer

that everybody would think

that I would have.

But... it wasn't

a joyous time for me.

I mean, like, I literally

was scared to death.

My cousin was waiting for me.

My private investigator

was waiting for me,

and I said... you want to hear

what I actually said?

[laughs] And I looked at Paul,

and I said, you know...

"Let's get this stuff

in the truck

and get the f*** out of here."

[laughs]

And we couldn't leave

fast enough.

The first place we stopped

at was IHOP for some breakfast.

And I was, like,

amazed at just the syrup menu.

[laughs] It just was

overwhelming, like,

it was completely overwhelming.

[Bruce] I haven't been

in a vehicle

without being chained at my feet

and with a waist chain

and then handcuffs hooked

to the waist chain

and in a paper jumpsuit

for 26 years.

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

'cause you said I am

The word "adjustment," I mean...

[clears throat]

I try to...

I try to figure that word out.

Do I have to...

I'm still trying to figure

that word out.

Like, how do you adjust coming

from the planet Mars to Earth?

I don't even think the oxygen

is the same up there.

I don't think

I'm adjusted at all.

It's impossible

to be invincible

But maybe it's possible

to be impossible

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

'cause you said I am

Yeah

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

I am a man

'cause you said I am

Yeah

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