11: The Parole Board
The Witness: In His Own Words
Jane Gogan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Joey and his mother, Mary, prepare to meet the parole board for the first time..
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| 0:29.0 | So what's been going on? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm start from the beginning. |
| 0:39.0 | Brian Kenny got into a spot of bother while he was hoping to be on his way out of prison. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, yeah, um, I think um |
| 0:53.0 | as my ask fell, yeah, finally. His mask fell. Yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | Finally. |
| 0:56.0 | He proved me right. |
| 0:58.0 | He proved me right and everything I said to the parole board and everything I've said to the |
| 1:01.0 | board and everything I've said to the state regarding his behavior and the things he's done and continues to do. |
| 1:07.6 | He was caught with drugs in prison in an open prison that he was getting out on day release over and I was going to see his wife, going to see his family. |
| 1:17.0 | Like I cried when the phone rang that day, when the person rang to tell me like he's going back in he's going back to we feel and it was |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, it was very relieved and emotional and just being just ringing my mind, ringing the family and just saying, |
| 1:37.0 | listen, it's okay, it's not okay forever, but it's okay for now. |
| 1:42.4 | And I remember that moment talking to my mind talking to the girls |
| 1:47.1 | because I worry about them and it hasn't just affected me this it also affected |
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