Lil Boosie Speaks From Prison

Torrence Hatch misses being Lil Boosie. He expresses his frustration below:

“Some days I’m maintaining, but I’m missing my family and the life I had out there. My first seven months I was in population, but since June I’ve been on 23-hour lockdown.They said they’re trying to protect me because of who I am. They got people get stabbed here, killed here. Pretty rough people here. A lot of rats here, snitches.

“[I'm here] ’cause of the songs I made, before I was indicted, about the police in Baton Rouge and what’s going on here. There’s a lot with our record label, that the system don’t like… They took my hard drive out of my house after I got arrested. I have albums for days in there. They still haven’t returned it. They’ve had it for damn near a year now. I need that music.”

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DJWillieShakes

Prisons or Schools: The Funding Choices Being Made Nationwide

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When times get hard and budgets are tight, some groups (both conservative and liberal) are advocating for cutting prison funding in exchange for increasing education funding. These groups claim that it is a better economic investment to focus on education and sentencing reform to decrease crime across the country. This could mean placing non-violent offenders in more rehabilitative programs rather than incarcerating them.

Hit the jump to read more on the movement to reform our prisons…

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The Editor

[Video] Lil Wayne’s Amazing Jail Escape!!!

Lil Wayne is a big deal in Riker’s so much that they had to confuse inmates and fans on the date and time of his departure so that their wouldn’t be a riot. Not to worry, Remy Ma is still in there and would love all your support….

Check out his…daring getaway.

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DJWillieShakes

You Got To Be Kidding Me

Have people truly lost their minds? It seems that people find more and more pleasure in the suffering of others. If it was not for mean spirited jokes, there might not be any comedy at all. I am no different than anyone else, I have certainly laughed at a friend that took a spill (after I helped them up of course), but I wouldn’t try to record it and profit off of a low point in someone else’s life. Unfortunately for people who get locked up in Franklin County, everyone does not feel the same.

There is a weekly publication in my city called Slammer which displays anyone who has been jailed in the county in the previous seven days. For only $1, anyone who has the whim can pick up a copy of Slammer and know who is in jail and for what. There are even stories in it that highlight popular cases and they are often written in a humorous tone.  So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised to walk in any corner store in the ghetto and see some young brothers laughing about one of their boys having his face on the front page; each of them knowing that it could be either of them in next weeks.

I guess the problem is not the paper but the trend that makes the paper possible. The question is how to get those young brothers to start getting angry about their friend being arrested for whatever reason. What they do not realize is that they are the ones that can turn this entire thing around, my only question is how to get them to realize it.

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Kwesi Low

Its Hell to be poor and need a lawyer in Harris County

Harris County in Houston, Texas is in the process of establishing a Public Defenders office. This is a great step for the county seeing that it is the only large major county left in America without some type of Public Defender System.  This new system would replace the county’s current system of dealing with indigent cases where defendants who are unable to afford a lawyer must have the judges appoint the council.

So, the county has agreed to establish a Public Defender’s office through a pilot initiative that is considered to be very weak. Their proposal establishes the office but allows the judges and county commissioners to select the head Public Defender. Hummmm – hum. If the judges and county are able to select the public defender then the office will lack independence which is needed to ensure that individuals are given legal representation that focuses on the indigent person who needs counsel.

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Christina Sanders