The hard part was introspection and fighting a system , right ? Not just a prosecutor or a court , but finding a system that was premised on um you know , ooooo oppression , right ? I was premised on it's a business , a prison , industrial complex .
Right . And then studying the system and what drives the system and , and , and , and why it has become what it is , you know , from education to , you know , to , to the whole system of why educational system looks at a guy in the third grade and determines whether or not he's gonna be caught up in the criminal justice system as early as the third grade . Right ?
So you got brother , cousins , aunts and uncles working in the same prison . So you get into an incident with one officer , you got a problem with the entire system and that's just how it is when you go deeper upstate , I mean , borderline Canada , you know , Clinton down in M and Great Meadows and different prisons like that . So , and the economy of the area depends , depends upon the prison because there's really nothing there but snow during the wintertime and farming .
The like 50% of the incarcerated people in New York State or probably in the country are living with dyslexia . So then , so they're unable to , to learn , you know , the basics of education like reading and these guys go home and they commit crimes over and over again because they were never corrected in these same systems that were built on the premise of rehabilitation are draconian in that they do nothing but , you know , steal a person's humanity and allow them to become or looked at as nothing more than a number , right ? You gotta wake up six o'clock in the morning .
So there's nothing else there . So the prison is the driving force behind the economy . So everyone's there , right ?
