An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the…
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In 1960, approximately 330,000 people were behind bars in USA. Since then, âthree strikesâ laws and âzero toleranceâ policies have pushed many low level offenders into prison sentences. As a result Americaâs inmate population soared to 2.3 million with an especially heavy impact on the poor and minorities.
There are now 70 prisons in New York State. Although 60 percent of all prisoners in the state come from New York City, 95 percent of these prisons are located upstate, in remote rural towns and villages, like Attica, Dannemora, and Malone.
Every Friday night about 800 people, mostly women and children, almost all of them African American and Latino, gather at Columbus Circle in Manhattan and board buses for the north. Depending on the destination, the trip can take up to 25 hours. Most of the passengers make this trip every weekend, some for many years, and in some cases, decades. The Visitors reveals a community and subculture sharing common problems, joys and endeavors.
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Main credits
Birder, Melis (Director)
Birder, Melis (Producer)
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Editor, K.A. Miille; cinematography, Suat Kutlug, Melis Birder; composers, Jay Tran, Rob Friedman.
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[sil.]
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[music]
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I\'m going to upstate professional facility,
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Bare Hill Road, Malone, New York.
There you go and a child (inaudible).
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[sil.]
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Well, you can watch, they\'re going to see their
family members, they sacrifice it right now
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– they sacrifice in the – they go see them.
I did touch and I feel straight,
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you know what I man and my family you
know they still find me and encourage me
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to do the right thing, so if no money that you could pay someone to
standby you. Would you know what have, my son would have listened to me,
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he wouldn\'t be where he at today. But we got
to see the fact, that\'s still my child,
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I\'m going right downward to the end.
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[music]
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[sil.]
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My brother was in prison and I asked him
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did he know some nice guys? So he
put a couple of guys on the phone
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and then Hakim(ph) got on the phone and I asked him
to tell me something about himself to write me.
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So, I went to visit him in 1998, and
I\'ve been going to visit him ever since.
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I married him at Riverview
Correctional Facility,
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I\'ll never forget the
date November 15th, 2000.
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[music]
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My whole life revolves around the
prison life. Okay. You got 13
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and you got 22 people online. So, I\'ll just go and give
that, and that\'s it. Your bus is right around the corner,
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you know you still got to get a ticket.
I (inaudible) leave at 11 o\'clock.
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So, I always try to tell people. Let\'s try to ride
as a family. Let\'s try to make it as easy as we can.
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You know if you\'re here by the discount share with the next
person. If you can help somebody, help the next person,
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because this is jungle that
nobody wants to go in.
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[sil.]
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I\'m exhausted, well, the
time I leave my house,
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the train is about an hour. And
then I have to wait a line,
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wait for the bus, the whole
trip is 26, 27 hours.
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It\'s for the love of my son.
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Like, you know, it\'s been a whole
week without seeing my husband
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is that\'s like a life time. I\'ve
been doing this for 10 years
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and I my… my suitcase broke last week,
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so now I have shopping cart with all my
stuff and I\'m bringing him food today.
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35 pounds of food. I\'ve
been coming every week.
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And it really takes a toll on you
after a while. We just got married
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… we got married in actually Clinton Facility, in the
facility he is in now. We are married the fourth of March
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and my husband is only … my husband just turned
24 years old and he\'s got 20 to the life.
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Your life also – Yeah. I\'m too…
What is life first? Life is first
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You\'re cracking up soon,
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alcohol kills more people every year, and here
with marijuana and cocaine put together …
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What are all these people waiting for? Where they\'re going
to? Where they\'re going I\'ve no idea… I\'ve no idea.
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Los Angeles, right? I had a lady
talking there, now 15 minutes ago.
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Are you standing and waiting for a new game?
I\'ll leave an old store this is what game?
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It\'s our prison bus line,
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prison, jail, the big house,
that\'s what we go with.
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Surely, I don\'t call him name by name, for anybody
that\'s going up in front of the poor people,
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for to search their hearts, allow them to grand
out family\'s friends and loved ones freedom …
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They help fright man,
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Jose, hello John, (inaudible),
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Carlos Vara they\'re searching
Olivia, (inaudible).
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[music]
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Okay guys; once again, my name is Denise and
I\'m going to be your coordinator for tonight
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and the new people going to have to forgive tonight, because I use
these stand up, the mic is working, guys it\'s good to see a lot smell
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that is so wonderful, everybody is
ready to see their probably too close.
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There\'s no drinking and smoking on this bus
guys, and we do not have curtain on this bus.
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We got a lot of little kids on this bus. The
kids are the most important thing on an AUJ bus.
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You get the boys.
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Guys immigration do stop us on a way coming back,
sometime they get on the bus and sometime they don\'t,
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but please check and make sure you got
the proper ID. If there is anybody
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that\'s going to clean antiques, PO
box 2002, you need your own lock,
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with AJ(ph) will be getting on the bus
and she sells just about everything
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that goes into the facility
as she also sell lots.
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Ladies let\'s do this, toothpaste, water,
(inaudible), blankets on three dollars.
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The bus does get go.
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Anybody else want a blanket
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Well, come on just don\'t make noise, we need
to make full and of. Come on time is money.
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You say thank you. Thank you.
Say have a good busy.
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Have a good busy, anything else want to
say, bike riders oh, no she said it.
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[sil.]
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We want the real thing. Does the batteries come into.
Does the batteries coming free, the first sale is for me.
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[music]
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So, how did it feel to learn?
Excited, got my head down.
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I got my head down I got real nice (inaudible).
I did the strip back at four to four years
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at Attica it is my first time that I\'m going
to claim. He just got trust for the claim,
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so I\'m not used claim. You wanted
the main or (inaudible). Main.
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Okay, guys can I have your attention for like two seconds?
Guys, we are going to touch on the top out of seats
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to the god of your understand, father in
name of Jesus, we came to you right now,
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god is doing from over the dangerous
highways, do not let no hurt
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or danger come amongst us. We actually to bring a though
destination in the name of Jesus and one piece father
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we are main and depending on you
father, in Jesus name, Amen.
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[sil.]
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I can holy like eat now
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maybe, I\'m telling you this is just,
is just something is overwhelming
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like I\'m feeling inside my heart. I
could just scream it out to the world
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finally when I have my husband home.
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In a couple of months Hakim will be going
to the parole board for the fourth time,
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if its god will he will make
it and I\'m very excited.
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[sil.]
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[music]
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Excuse me, wearing those heals and stuff.
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This is six pages,
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I did nearly every day.
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[music]
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This is the man that caught my eye.
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I have been married to him for nine years
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and where of 17 years of prison.
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[music]
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It\'s been in god\'s grace say it\'s 1989
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he never had a chance to be on the outside.
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I\'m going to make sure you guys get attention
to talk to him later, I promise you.
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[music]
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I love him so much.
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[music]
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I know Denise for the past year and she is always really
helpful. She always if you know if you got questions
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and she is with always answers them in best
of her ability. So you just stick them on
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and go on your visit.
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You girls can do it too for
your husbands, hold it
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and then you can batch your
eyes, get very glassy.
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Always encourages you. She prays for everybody
on the bus, everybody\'s inspiration,
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you know, I was real nice
and I\'m excited for her
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when she was telling that her
husband was coming home.
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[music]
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Last year like if any times she ever felt
that she didn\'t want to – like she felt
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this was a long time, it was hard for her
to cope with. I just wanted to see how it,
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how my feelings were against other
people that had same amount of time.
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Sometimes it is hard to you know to even
contemplate you know like twenty years
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like you got each and every
stuff to think, I\'ll be 40
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when my husband gets out of prison.
I will be forty years old.
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I think the people that come
here that we\'re inmates too,
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because what we do effect on them, our husbands, brothers.
Any time you come upstairs and you go into jail
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and how you\'re doing time too. Yeah. And did
tell my husband what is done twenty three years,
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I\'m doing time too, because I feel like. And sometime
the time do you when you get frustrated and stressed.
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And then sometime you feel
like you are one of them
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as you come so much sometimes you feel that
you don\'t want come but you want to come.
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I have met so many people on this journey.
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I have met so many different nationalities.
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There has been times, when not
do it my situation was so bad,
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but I came and contact was someone that
was way more worse than my situation.
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I started going on state
when I was eighteen.
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I will be forty-five July.
How many years again?
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24 years. And I come every Friday
night and sometime I stay there
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and come at the next day, I may stay for
two days. My husband got 25 in life.
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[music]
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He told me I didn\'t have to come
and see him. He told me that
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I can live my life and
do what I want to do,
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he don\'t think I should
just come to jail house.
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It takes a really, really strong person
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to stay during a lot of times the
people, because I know people,
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you know, family members of my husbands and
such that, you know, if they get locked up,
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they get a certain amount of time, but that\'s it, their wife is left with
the kids and for everything fell apart, because they couldn\'t handle it,
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that scares a lot of people away. I mean
the thought of not having somebody for
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you know you think it five, ten years I mean
that\'s a long time. I wasn\'t expecting him
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to get 25 to life, I was expecting to
at least to get 15 or unless than that,
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but he is young, we\'re both young and for
him to go through his life like that
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without seeing his kids,
it\'s hard, it\'s hard for me
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to bring my kids every week to go see him,
but I can abandoned them with their father.
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I can\'t keep their father away from them.
To do stuff like this,
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you got to be with it with every beat of your heart,
because if you\'re not, you might will just leave it.
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You don\'t understand the
impact it has on your life
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and on the person you love and so you really gone
through it. It\'s lot harder than a lot of people think
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they don\'t understand, you know, I played at night, oh my
god, do they food, do they have this, do they have that,
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is everything okay, he didn\'t call me in three days. I
hope they didn\'t get to a fight obviously locked up.
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And then you see these stuff, okay, now I got to worry about
my job, my bills, you know what I\'m going up to see him,
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am I going to able to afford it? Can I pay it? You know what
I mean? Gas is going up and everything is just pilled on
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their stress, your stress. He wrote me a letter saying
that he was very stressed. He had a fight with somebody
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and I\'m just going to go release
some stress to make some peace.
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When he sees me he gains peace
and sometimes no matter
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how much stress you have all you need
is a hug, a hug just seems to cure
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everything about. I\'m doing all
this just to give him a hug,
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I must be crazy, but when you
love somebody that\'s what you do.
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Speak of the devil, that\'s Jason right now.
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I know, I know hello, hi, how are you?
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Come on what\'s the matter?
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What are you stressed about?
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Know what?
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[sil.]
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Yeah, I could like …
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one day I could almost breakdown, like I blacked out and I tried
committing suicide, they got me in seeing a psychiatrist,
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they got me on medication. I was you know
dealing to my you know dealing with myself
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and my kids asking me questions and I
don\'t know what answers to give them,
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you know, they are being so small and it\'s like, I don\'t
know what to say, I tried to answer the best ways I can
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until one day I couldn\'t take it anymore
and I was just like, I blacked down,
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and I snapped and like I just try killing
myself and then I try popping pills,
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I tried jumping out of seven store of building and my guy
living, I tried cutting my wrist, I tried everything,
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it\'s like I realized that is nothing is
working, obviously it\'s not for me to die.
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No one understands your
prison life what you,
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because you\'re the one
that\'s going to do it.
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It took eight years before they
brought them up for his first parole
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and they denied him.
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I thought he was going to make the
third parole and he was denied again
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and I was devastated.
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Each time they denied him, they gave him 24
months before they would bring him up again.
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He said they called him a monster
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and I hold his hand and I told
him you\'re not a monster.
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[sil.]
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Wait a minute he made that blanket.
Yeah, he made this one for me
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and I got another brown and white one without any
issues on it, but he asked us the third one,
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but he took this all the time.
This was when he was in river,
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that\'s just like 1999. Oh,
wow here we go right here,
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oh, she would look like a coco-cola. But
he could draw good. So, I asked him,
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I said, honey, how do you be able
to get this like this? So he said,
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he has take the Windex bottle
and put his paint inside
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and that\'s what he used to spray to get the shirt
like this. He made a beautiful card for me.
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I thought this was the paper for the
parole telling me to read about
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I never thought it was a card and he takes so
much time to do something with this letter
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and he had inside. I have been saying
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how I\'m going to remove about, because I have
such corny wedding, very corny, it\'s worth it,
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but it was corny. So he got down
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on his knees and then I was
like stop, so I was blushing
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and I was trying all red. Then he said, you want be
to do it like this or you want me to get on one knee
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and he got on one knee and my husband said this
sound next year he is going to propose again
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and how we\'re go have wedding,
I was so happy, I was just.
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And my wedding day it
was like so beautiful,
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it was he looked so handsome.
In his greens.
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Yeah, well, he had a soak shirt and his
green and then you know he wanted to tie,
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but no ties allowed. They only marry on
Mondays and they will them that\'s it
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and it\'s only maybe one hour
he tell me forget about it
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because there is only one hour, it\'s two
minutes you they pronounce you men and wife,
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you kiss the bride they gave you maybe
half an hour to visit and then you\'re out.
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The ceremony is about a good five minutes
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like really quick but our, I mean right,
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mine was like. May you get to church and…
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Just kiss the doing the… We have to write a
letter saying why I want to marry my husband.
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They give you opponents of you?
But they gave me opponents.
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But actually you see a psychologist.
Oh, wow. Every decades.
00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.999
Yeah, it\'s very, very (inaudible)
it\'s very small prison
00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:19.999
but they have a lot of rules. That they want to make
you go in the right state of mind for Marina and me,
00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.999
like, basically Marina and
me, they got a lot of …
00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:29.999
You know they only know them in
the inside not on the outside
00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.999
they judge them when they\'re out too.
Right.
00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:39.999
My vision is 2350 and him is a right
eye can\'t see it out of it at all
00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.999
and that\'s what brought us
together that kind of connection.
00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.999
Both of us we blind out of one
eye, you know, he will tell me
00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:54.999
when I, you walk on my blind side and I\'ll
walk on the other side, we go up together.
00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:59.999
[non-English narration]
00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:04.999
[sil.]
00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:13.000
[non-English narration]
00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.999
That\'s nice,
00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:39.999
that is nice. And my husband
definitely could say he have Quran.
00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:48.000
[music]
00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.999
Wow, it makes such a nice couple right.
Yeah. How long you have been married.
00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.999
[music]
00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:04.999
[non-English narration]
00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.999
[music]
00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.999
I can remember like yesterday
00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.999
when a council of asking me, why are you marrying
him? Do you know what type at time he\'s serving?
00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.999
Do you even care that
he is younger than you?
00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.999
And it was like it didn\'t even sink in my head
or I didn\'t even hear what she was saying,
00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:34.999
because we was about get married.
00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.999
I did ask him what he did the nature of
his crime? I didn\'t ask any of that.
00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.999
[music]
00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.999
I didn\'t even care about
our age differences.
00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.999
The truth is
00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.999
I have been doing this a lot of
time and every time you coordinate,
00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.999
I feel more comfortable coming up.
No one on our bus
00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:09.999
talks about the nature of the crime that, their
husbands or family or friends or loved ones committed.
00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.999
I saw my husband once, I want a t-shirt,
00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
I want you to work out with it, really dirty
instinct, you right, so he works out like
00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.999
two weeks with this t-shirt and
when he\'s ready to send it to me,
00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.999
he keep – puts on him… I
don\'t just say to somebody
00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.999
my husband committed murder or my husband
did, they they don\'t talk about that.
00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.999
Well we get trails next month.
Hopefully it makes it to the spot.
00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.999
You don\'t be nervous. No… no. No?
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.999
No, I\'m like boring to that actually. Second
one – He\'s going to say… he\'s going say.
00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.999
(inaudible) wait, wait it won\'t be up like…
00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
oh god I\'m so yeah anyway
that\'s what going to happen,
00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
no ways the true. We all have that conversation;
we have all had that conversation.
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
Yeah. You know it\'s going to be
like this, because I had one too.
00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
No, because mine it\'s always
saying honey you know is going to
00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.999
is going to be quick the first minute
00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.999
when I get home, but then that\'s that it will be
all right… it will all right we are enjoying…
00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.999
we are enjoying, I said don\'t
worry about it, I enjoy it,
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
you don\'t worry about it. When all the girls
let\'s giving me trail, I was like bang,
00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.999
I would have never get in trail. And
that moments finally came you buy it;
00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
you\'ll be so excited about opening an amount
of full. The only thing I\'m afraid of
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
out of this whole trailer thing
is spending two days with him
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
and then leaving him. You can only
talk with so much on a visit – Yeah.
00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.999
Because you might see tears coming down. Yeah. My
eyes more than his, because you know a man\'s mind,
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
he can\'t let all the inmate see him crying.
But in a trailer
00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
he needed to in the middle
of the night spoke and find
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.999
you know that, that\'s how from still a
worse. Guys we are going to have 10 minutes
00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.999
to get our food and drinks and
please get back on the bus.
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.999
It\'s already half the 12 o\'clock.
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.999
Guys remember the rest room is going to
be to the far right of the building,
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.999
no that\'s probably big you don\'t have to count it for
now. Oh man. The driver is probably going to pull over,
00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.999
we are going to let you out now guys,
please be careful and you exit the bus.
00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:48.000
[sil.]
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.999
Wait your turn, get up there
and get all your food.
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
[sil.]
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:09.999
I receive the call from
a Minister telling me
00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.999
there must not have been beaten by
correction officers. They may heard of me
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
to see the bruises, the swollen face,
you know, I just can\'t believe it that
00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
how something like that could have happened and how
so many officer no one had a heart to stop them,
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
some beating some like that. No, there\'s so much to
say that\'s enough, but then there is he drag his body
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
beat him some more, drag his body beat him,
they just continue to he didn\'t had conscious,
00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
so it was just a real pain. And
your resignation never found
00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
the correction officer therefore,
there is always the inmates.
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
Yeah. Anybody in the men\'s room?
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
Yes. A man? Yeah. All right, he needs
to hurry up. Who\'s in (inaudible)?
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
Yeah. So three here. Okay guys just do
this. There\'s no other man in there?
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
Is it? Yeah. I was little wild
when I first met him and he –
00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
You need to make sure – And he definitely made me a better
woman. He\'s made me – make a lot of change in my life
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.999
from the inside. He\'s helped me through a lot
and when you ask me about the moral support
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
quite frankly he supports me too and
helps me get through this also.
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
So, he\'s been a good friend to me.
And I don\'t regret a minute of it,
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
I don\'t not one minute.
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.999
I was just fine with my dad before.
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
[sil.]
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
He just always fights with me when it comes
to my husband. Until I saw him yesterday
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
and now I\'m seeing tomorrow and tomorrow is
my dad\'s birthday, so he will dismiss of him.
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
[sil.]
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
When you really love somebody,
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
you can really do anything you want. He couldn\'t have with me
on the phone for two days, something was wrong with my phone
00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
and he called my sister this morning and she actually
answers the phone, but they don\'t really like him
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
to call the house. I mean, he\'s a muslim, he\'s
Arab and my sister was in a Jewish community
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
and I\'m not even allowed to say his name in
her backyard, because it\'s an Arabic name
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
and I don\'t get any support from my
family uh… I don\'t have any friends,
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
because I quite frankly I go to work and I come home
wait for his phone call. So, that\'s my whole life,
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
the phone and work… the phone and work. I\'m so
– I\'ve done almost four years and three months
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
with him and uh… I\'m doing my time too.
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
Night. Yeah.
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
Night… night. Umm… BP time. Umm… Okay guys,
thanks for (inaudible) shouting will bring some –
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
Not even your family understands
when you are living a prison life.
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
And long just not a lot… lot because we
play on, thank you. She never say no,
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
she always wait, we have
been gathering whatever,
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
no I\'m going to see him; I\'m going to see him stay
with your family. Every time she call him like,
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
you are going every week, every
week she never missed a day,
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
so he better love her
or I will kill his ass.
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
You leave there group and
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
uh… make sure it\'s a good pair, because
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
umm… Rome is falling. Okay.
Clinton bus has broke down.
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
I know (inaudible) it soon. The (inaudible)
bus is broke down. We ain\'t breaking now,
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
we don\'t… we don\'t.
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:53.000
[sil.]
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.999
Very tight budget. All
the money is counted.
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.999
Something for me to eat is three dollars.
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
And then sort of
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
I take some pictures,
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
pictures are two dollars for picture
and I glad I have the picture.
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
[sil.]
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
This is going to be so, I going to dirty
eyes, when I get up in the morning
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
my eyes will be clearer and if
I don\'t really rest that much
00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
because I don\'t rest that much on the
bus, so, I\'ll put this on my eyes
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
I go one at a time, which
is going to be my right eye
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
and then I\'m going to put my left
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
and then I\'m going to take my bed and
I want to cover it all the way down.
00:30:55.000 --> 00:31:03.000
[sil.]
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.999
Listen man
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.999
I\'ve got a low battery,
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.999
I\'m sitting across three miles
outside of opening on 87.
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.999
Bus is on the shorter of the road,
somebody send a bus up here ASAP.
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
[sil.]
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
Guys I had shut it, kids don\'t please do not wonder
away from the bus, I don\'t know who\'s out here
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
and the coordinator didn\'t used it not
coming out there, didn\'t look for anyone.
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
My grandkids need me and my husband.
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
Be prepared, we\'re going
to be here little while.
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
And you know that\'s going
to more the kids of nine,
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
this so … there at time you know, you got
more enough, so hopefully all of them goes.
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
We go back itself,
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
so we go back to full of right, it\'s amazing. I
told my husband, you know, when I used to go bare,
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
he used to the battle for position for the seat, battle for position
when you got to the visiting room, then you don\'t want to get
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
the first early number because you get thrown off the visit book.
So, you let all the people who have never been there before
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.999
going in front you and I
said so, it\'s a whole gain,
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.999
this is not just keeping you just get on this
like luxury bus and you just go. You don\'t –
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.999
All go like to say be here – They have no
idea what we go through, they really don\'t.
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
It takes another three hours
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.999
to get there. Yes. Not going on
three hours visit a nine hour ride.
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.999
Bus is coming for three hours. Yeah, by the time the bus
gets to the facility that is supposed to go to and because –
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
So listen some people is so thirsty for a visit, they
don\'t even care, so they got to make that decision.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
But I have a baby here – You wait everybody
don\'t be mad on this bus, she\'s going to stop.
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
And the bus comes right now, and it\'s
only 12 seats on, the people with kids
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
are going to go first, the elderly people
in day to night and I will still sit here,
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
I\'ve done it for years.
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.999
What times they get flight
now, probably on six? Yeah.
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.999
So, you figure 6, 6:30 three
hours 9:30 check in time
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.999
we got 11, 12 one, two – 11, 12 one, two, three
five hours we could still get five hours.
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.999
[sil.]
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.999
One girl was saying I want
to go back home. Yeah.
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
Not have to try this. We still
have to be true friends
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
always true first. This
is our life for while.
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
One time at the ride,
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
belive it or not, they said
I had drugs on my hands,
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
because the money; send me two years old
you know. But when you touch money,
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
they\'re saying 90% of the dollar
bills are any money you touch
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
has drugs on it, so if you\'re touching money,
then they give you a hard time to get in.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
Oh that\'s what the bus driver said, he said,
you know next time always give wipes for you
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
and wipe your hands. It\'s crazy. And then they made
us visit, you know, with one of those tuberclosis.
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
You had to visit behind the glass?
Yeah, yeah. Joe(ph) laughed,
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.999
it\'s my mother. (inaudible). Yeah.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.999
[music]
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
Am I ever going to able to hold his hand
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
and walk down the street or I take ice cream
and wishing his hands face on the outside
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.999
or just go to the park.
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.999
I\'m just waiting for this to
be my year to say finally.
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:33.000
[sil.]
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:58.000
[music]
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.999
I just (inaudible) 2000, 2001
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.999
through your main. Right after
this stop it will be Ray Brooke
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.999
and they can\'t gave me out.
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.999
You wants (inaudible) 2002? Yes I am.
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.999
Okay, just make it sure, so you guys
don\'t get up at the wrong stop.
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:13.000
[music]
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:43.000
[sil.]
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:08.000
[music]
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.999
Guys we can\'t go in here like
a Stem Peter elephants(ph)
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.999
because remember there\'s people in here having their
breakfast and they might want a quiet breakfast,
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.999
so we step to us, because they
could tell us, we can\'t go in.
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
[music]
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.999
[sil.]
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.999
I\'ve seen restaurant owners lock the doors,
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.999
I mean when they saw the buses unloading.
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.999
We\'re going to brush our teeth there. We can get
a couple of water from out there, they tell us,
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
no I mean that\'s they … that\'s their shop, they
don\'t have to let us stop there. And for the once
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
they don\'t come every week and you come once a month there
is people that come every week that needs to stop there.
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.999
So, let\'s think about this guys.
I\'m saying we can\'t stop there,
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.999
there\'s other ways that we could do things.
I\'m quite sure you went plenty of places,
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.999
without brushing your teeth. Now let\'s be real
with our own stuff and not be a funny, I\'m –
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.999
First thing I have – I got dressed
on this bus plenty of times
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.999
and I ain\'t have problem with
my husband, hello, hello
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.999
call it what you see. Call it
what you see, let\'s be real.
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:43.000
[music]
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
The visitors don\'t mix here, those
people are coming different world,
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.999
they\'re not all clean and they\'re careless.
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.999
The restroom is tied out for
locals can\'t even use it.
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.999
[music]
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.999
It\'s pretty nasty.
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.999
I\'m going to change, so I could
get ready to go see my dad
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.999
and had to run back.
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.999
Umm… I can name more of them,
but I know some of them,
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:38.000
(inaudible),
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.999
since I was born. How old are you? 11.
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.999
[sil.]
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.999
I see like mess over there.
I get them time.
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.999
Let\'s talk to the (inaudible) I want to go.
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.999
[sil.]
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:14.999
Every time what happen is what comes back, it
was 6\'o clock in the morning when I drop off.
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.999
And then one guard came in and
told me, you don\'t come here
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.999
soon in the morning and drop off your trash
in front of my door. Like that I said,
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.999
you\'re actually calling human beings trash?
He said that to you?
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.999
Yeah, that\'s what he said.
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:39.999
Okay guys, this is at our (inaudible) guys
please be careful as you exit the bus.
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.999
Enjoy your visit guys. Thank you.
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.999
[sil.]
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.999
Most of this down they don\'t really
– I don\'t think I like them.
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.999
They are not too well liked up here, you know,
some of them live up here, they move up here
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.999
because they were living there for a long time here, too much I
can afford it. They would have been in drugs and other stuff,
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.999
we got to really check them. They
come in the visitors staff like that
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.999
is like another enemy coming in. Yeah.
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:23.000
[sil.]
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
It feels like you are
going on a date, right.
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:48.000
[sil.]
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.999
We have kids when they little,
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.999
they little problems when they big, they big
problems – I\'m telling you. It never ends,
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.999
it never ends, they don\'t care
what nobody saying. Here you go.
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.999
How long you\'ve been coming? For 29 years.
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:18.000
[sil.]
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.999
I have – must have room ready for them,
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.999
I don\'t know we being out, room is ready, have you
got that let me live to see their there, right.
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.999
One day at a time, one day at a time.
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.999
It only over night, it\'s still the
journey even when you\'re out.
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.999
I\'ll get right here soon.
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:58.000
[sil.]
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:33.000
[music]
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.000
[sil.]
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:24.999
Yeah, I mean, I like to keep that one.
All right. Thank you.
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:33.000
[sil.]
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:43.000
[music]
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:59.999
My husband was very sad because one
his friends they just went home.
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:04.999
He just went home on October, and now
he\'s back and I, given him twelve years
00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.999
and he just did about thirteen
or fourteen years. Good visit?
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.999
[music]
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:19.999
My stomach was just in nuts,
and I couldn\'t talk for about
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.999
five, ten fifteen minutes.
My husband is so afraid
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.999
to stuff like that, because nine
of his friends already went there.
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.999
Nine.
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.999
I didn\'t take no visit,
because I was crying.
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.999
For what now. My phone was off this
week and we know about those prices
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.999
from MCI very high and I
wasn\'t able to pay it,
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.999
by credit because I have mail in a payment and that
takes like two weeks to get your phone back on,
00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.999
and I\'m just so used to speak into him
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.999
and making sure that he is okay, and he
is also used to making sure that I\'m okay
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.999
that this week is just like I die.
I didn\'t have anybody to talk to.
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.999
I don\'t have any friends to talk to about what
I\'m going to do with him until I come to the bus
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.999
and see all the other girls that I live in
the prison life. Not even my own sister
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.999
wants to understand what I\'m going to do.
This one says,
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.999
what a beautiful days spend with my
beautiful wife, you are my heart
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.999
I love you much, he always writes that at the
end of each letter. You know, I love you right,
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.999
you know you my heart. Did you see
him Tracy? I was seeing this thing.
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.999
[music]
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:49.999
Oh my god,
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.999
they are coming home,
yes but it\'s not today
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.999
that want today, today…
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:08.000
[music]
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.999
Drop your weapon,
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.999
put your gun down, gun.
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.999
Put the gun down now.
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.999
I never met my brother before till today.
I agree. Oh that\'s a best thing,
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:39.999
I\'m forty four and so… And I\'m fifty.
Yeah, so the long time
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.999
to got to know somebody, since the early
80s, I have been searching for him
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.999
to discover this year
that he is still alive,
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:54.999
so it was important and it was to
come and see. It\'s going to help him.
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.999
(inaudible) come to visit him.
Well, I live in Austin, Texas. So…
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.999
Wow! Yeah I came a very long way today,
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:09.999
but it was well worth a trip. Our
brother was given a life sentence
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:14.999
for not a crime of murder
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.999
or great for anything, because
he was a persistent fellow.
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:24.999
The, correction system is I will say as now
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.999
really restorted to
people, it can hinderous.
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:38.000
[music]
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.999
Everyone is inside to a mistake, you
shouldn\'t be playing for that mistake
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.999
for the rest of your life. For a type of my
husband, he got locked up at sixteen years old
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.999
a little baby, didn\'t even finish graduate and high
school. Yeah, he goes and he goes this little school
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.999
and gets his GED programs and this and that,
but kind of job do they expect to get home.
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:09.999
They just kick him out on the street and you are going from
being a child to a grown man and they throw you on the street
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.999
and except you, oh just start life and to be
great. When Jason came him from his first bed,
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.999
he went to go find jobs because he\'s
like I\'m, I don\'t want to see this more
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:24.999
I don\'t want to sell drugs anymore. I brought
him to go find job that took off from work.
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.999
He went to a couple of jobs, they didn\'t want
to hire him. Then finally he went to this job
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.999
and the guy goes in interviews him and he is like,
he really excited he wants give Jason a job,
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:39.999
working for this company and then the guys goes, he know
shaking his hand all right he goes, you know, listen,
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.999
well, you know, I\'m going to talk to my supervisors, we\'ve
got everything setup and he goes. And he just looks in
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.999
for a second goes, you were never convicted for a
family right, just asks another block, and Jason says,
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:54.999
yeah, I was, because I\'m…you know I was convicted
and the guy goes because we can\'t hire you.
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.999
And it\'s not fair. Who
right now, right now,
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:04.999
my husband supposed to go
to the boy, next month
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:09.999
and they are asking him, for a job letter,
how is he going to get a job letter?
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.999
How is he supposed to get a
job when he is not out there.
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:23.000
[music]
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:33.000
[sil.]
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:59.999
My grand\'s and just say, grandma, grandma,
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:04.999
I\'m not doing probably about 8
days, grandma, eight more days,
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:09.999
you and grandpa can be on my birthday, I
said, when is your birthday? July 10th.
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.999
I said you know, we\'re going to be there.
He said, he\'s going to hug everybody
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.999
when he comes out when he
is going to hug me blanks.
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:24.999
He said he wants to come here to see
my room, and see where I slept.
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:29.999
And I really want him to see this room,
because so many days I was closing myself up
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.999
in this room just to feel presence of him
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:39.999
and to try to stay here and let the days
go by, so Friday could get here real quick
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:44.999
so I could go up and see him again
on Saturday. There is so much,
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.999
so much in here from 9/1904
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.999
is part of his diary.
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:59.999
Going by some of the things that\'s in this
book, if he didn\'t have me, he said them,
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.999
he was lost a long time ago, he
would and nobody would like to have
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.999
the freedom to do and as he please
00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.999
or know what tomorrow would bring.
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:19.999
[music]
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.999
A long twenty five is still
got wild reasons and fast,
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.999
which would help man, that could be
something that you always wanted.
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.999
I know I can.
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:39.999
I\'ve been here, the worse place of
the world, it\'s still I\'ll smile
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.999
because of you, but one
thing I wanted to do
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.999
is make you happy. I know
you will, I\'m ready,
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.999
I\'m so ready for you to come home,
and this has been a journey…
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.999
this has been a journey.
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.999
And now I will attempt to pack, what
I\'m taking up for him to come home.
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:09.999
I always loved it North Carolina, South
Carolina, my kids are down there,
00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.999
my grandkids are down there, on my husband side,
he has shared with me numerous times about
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.999
he want to go somewhere we\'re safe. Going to
treatment and going to different program,
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.999
I have learned that all people placed the things
is the relapse and it can cause you to fall back,
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.999
we\'re not trying to
repeat what we just did.
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.999
I love you, miss you man. Yeah.
00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:43.000
[sil.]
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.999
During the visit time a lot
officers said to me that,
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:09.999
he was going to make the fore pro because
did everything he was supposed to do.
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:14.999
And once again they denied
him even the fore pro.
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:23.000
[music]
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.999
I was devastated,
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:39.999
I couldn\'t hardly talk
on a phone, I just cried
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:44.999
and they still used the part
that he was danger to society
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.999
and that he was not ready to be a
productive citizen in the society.
00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:58.000
[music]
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:29.999
I just took it one day
at a time and I prayed,
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.999
and the pain got easier and easier.
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:39.999
[music]
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.999
I feel like heaven.
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:49.999
[music]
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:54.999
The strong love that I have my husband
00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:59.999
and believe in my relationship and that it\'s going to be
okay just another day is gone, it\'s going to be okay.
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.999
[music]
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.999
It allows me to have the extra push
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.999
on continuing to do what\'s right.
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:23.000
[music]
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.999
I only have like five
more months on this bus,
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.999
I probably do a part where just for you,
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.999
just for you, for you guys, and I\'m
going to shake up some self somewhat
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.999
and squat it all over you, like I
made to touch down at the super bowl.
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.999
February. When?
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.999
February 6. What\'s that? Our
conditional release date.
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.999
Oh, you are good.
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:04.999
It\'s exciting, but it\'s also like sad,
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:09.999
because so long you just through
them about minutes to make it there,
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:14.999
do you understand what I\'m saying.
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.999
That\'s why you have to just say, Jesus
00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.999
let me touch you and see if you
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.999
are in … Even though we have
a conditional release date,
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.999
they could still tell us no.
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.999
We wanted to be parole out of state to North
Carolina, to my husband sister\'s house.
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.999
Just have
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:49.999
a normal peaceful happy life a normal life.
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.999
Thank you god.
00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.999
[sil.]
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.999
[music]
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:09.999
Oh, my god this is husband, Rachel
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.999
come and get the babby, hello?
Hello, no its going to cut off,
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.999
I got to go outside, oh
they transferred him.
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.999
Oh, my god. Get out of here.
00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.999
Rachel, I think this (inaudible)
cut off I would die.
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.999
For real? Ah… say it again,
00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:39.999
for real? How cute,
00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.999
oh no ah… I love you,
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.999
oh my god, you only know Hakim,
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:54.999
ah… are you happy? I am beyond happy.
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:59.999
Oh, I want to hold you.
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.999
Well, so, I don\'t got to take
the worse, can you believe,
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:09.999
I don\'t got to pack a
bag, Thursday or Friday,
01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:14.999
stuff the bag and sit on it to zip it up
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.999
and know that I got to get on that
bus and ride five and half hours.
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:24.999
My body started looking like clan.
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:33.000
[music]
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:14.999
And all I could do is look up at the sky
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:19.999
and say I got the victory.
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:28.000
[music]
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.999
Well, I got to take a nap now.
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.999
I have to take a nap because
I\'m doing a double,
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:54.999
I\'m going back to see my husband,
I need some more hugs and kisses,
01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:59.999
only hugs and kisses just hugs and kisses,
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.999
that\'s rattle a bit, I
didn\'t say it Mr. Mario,
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:10.000
drive the bus focus on the highway.
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:23.000
[sil.]
Distributor: Scorpion TV
Length: 65 minutes
Date: 2009
Genre: Observational
Language: English
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Closed Captioning: Available
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