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Multi-Platinum selling recording artist Glasses Malone joins CA State Lobbyist, Matt Gray of Capital Alliance, to work with the incarcerated for human rights. Malone is passionate about improving public safety, making a difference, and prison reform. Glasses strives to bridge the lost connection between children and parents currently locked up through Friends outside National Organization (http://www.friendsoutside.org/) an organization he has partnered with “Just because you are incarcerated, doesn’t mean you should be treated as a subhuman. My mom was there to serve a drug sentence, not a death sentence.” - Glasses Malone
Street Approved: As a child, were you able to help your mother not have to traffic drugs?
Glasses Malone: I really wasn’t capable to help my mother financially. It was unfortunate that I could only observe.
Street Approved: What challenges do you face with this legislation? How do you plan to overcome them?
Glasses Malone: Politics will always have conflict and I am stating what I want done and why I want it done and will just deal with situations as they arise.
Street Approved: What do you say to people who say, “I don’t care about human rights for prisoners. They are in jail and not having human rights is part of their sentence!”?
Glasses Malone: Yes, jail is a consequence for some people’s action but they are still human beings who made a mistake. Unless they are sentenced to death, I feel the government should hold up to the Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that all men are created equal and the states could not deprive people of the equal protection of the law.(The Bill Of Rights)
Glasses Malone aspires to help anyone who is incarcerated whether it is the single mom struggling to help take care of her child, the trouble kid hustling on the street, or a person who got caught up running with the wrong crowd. “I always speak to people from personal experiences, as I want people to know the truth first hand. I rely on pray to get me where I should be and how I should get there. I saw how hard it was for my mom and I didn’t want that to happen to me.” Street Approved Magazine wishes Malone the best. The sincerity Glasses has to make a difference to show that everyone deserves a chance makes sense.
I am with Glasses Malone~
Shay, a former 10 year prison inmate states, “The system spends more time penalizing then rehabilitating prisoners.” The now 28 year old was incarcerated at 18 and through the grace of God the staff at the prison didn’t make him feel as if he didn’t have any Human rights. “County Jail has more of a cruel/torturous condition because it has a higher turnover, meaning when you commit a crime you go to the police station, and then you go to jail to wait for your trail, before you are sentenced to prison. For those of you who think that people in prison don’t deserve Human rights, remember this, not everyone in jail is guilty, look at how many non- profit organizations have gotten people off death row with DNA testing!”
Shannie, served prison time from June 2008 to June 2011 and states, “ Jail ward prisoner was posted on my hospital room door as I gave birth to my son handcuffed to the bed, with a chain that limited me from the bed to the bathroom. I was induced and had to walk to the surgery room, they didn’t even offer me a wheelchair. Regardless of the mistakes I made I am still a human being, a daughter, a mother, and friend. This is not the treatment I deserved. I deserve equal rights.”
Anonymous (attempted murder, gang related), “The longest sentence I served was 7 years and staff took away my human rights. They abused their power and position and made me afraid to tell anyone on the streets because they will make it worse for those I care about who are still in the system. I was sentence to be in prison, not mistreated. I remember an inmate filed for health related treatment and by the time he got it, he was dead. It took 2 months for them to see him for his heart problems. I told the staff but they didn’t care. He was in so much pain that he couldn’t get up to eat, or shower, and then he just stop getting up at all. Sometimes to get away from the guards abusing me physically and mentally, I opted to be in isolation the hole or shu, which meant I had 23 hours alone to myself, 1 hour to work out or shower and then back to being locked up. I know I did wrong and my consequence to my action is prison, but no matter what I am still human. I ask this to the people looking from the outside in that think I deserve this because I am in prison, would you want this to happen to you or someone you care about? So why is it good enough for me?”
I am against this~
Sharron Correctional Officer, “I disagree with prisoners who say they don’t have any human rights in prison. You lost your freedom when you committed the crime that placed you in jail. So therefore you choose to live a life with restrictions. Yes, there are bad people in every occupation that abuse their authority and if a prisoner is a victim of it they have the right to protest it! All it takes is for one person to say something to start a domino effect. Inmates are restricted because they have tried to escape by faking illnesses. Once again these are the consequences of them committing a crime. Inmates have proven that they deserve to be locked up. If a correctional officer is not performing his or her job ethically then it will be investigated. The bottom line is America is in a financial crisis and we are not going to spend our money on prisoners who have been judged by the judicial system and deemed guilty by their peers. I have a friend who is in jail serving 50 years to life and we agree to disagree on this situation.”
Interviews conducted and constructed by: CJ
