#120 - Giving Birth in Prison Sucks | Jessica Kent

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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At 23 years old, Jessica Kent was incarcerated on drug and gun-related charges in Arkansas. Shortly after her arrest, Jessica discovered she was pregnant. Though she was still struggling with withdrawals, she was given very little support in prison. When she gave birth in prison at ago 24, the process was barbaric as she was chained to the bed and not allowed to get up, even to use the bathroom for 48 hours afterwards. Today she uses her YouTube channel to talk about addiction, PTSD, and other issues she believes in. Follow Jessica here: https://youtube.com/JessicaKent help us make more money: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon sponsors https://liquiddeath.com - Use code KONCRETE at checkout to get a free koozie 2-pack with a 12-pack purchase. danny https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:02.8	At 23 years old, Jessica Kent was incarcerated on drug and gun-related charges in Arkansas.
0:08.8	Shortly after her arrest, Jessica discovered she was pregnant.
0:11.9	Although she was still struggling with withdraws, she was given very little support in prison.
0:16.1	When she gave birth in prison at age 24, the process was barbaric as she was chained to the bed and not allowed to get up even to use the bathroom for 48 hours afterwards.
0:25.4	Today, Jessica uses her YouTube channel to talk about PTSD, addiction, and other issues that she believes in.
0:30.6	Without further ado, please enjoy this episode with Jessica Kent.
0:42.3	All right.
0:45.0	Thank you, Jessica Kent for doing this.
0:45.5	Welcome.
0:47.4	You have a sweet YouTube channel.
0:50.8	It's mediocre at best, but I appreciate the enthusiasm. Yeah, you have lots of cool videos with lots of a wide, a wide variety
0:54.7	of topics, very interesting topics. It gets crazy over there. But before we start, I just want to
0:59.6	thank you for your patience with me because this is like an episode that was supposed to happen
1:03.7	like six months ago and it didn't. So you've been very patient with me in my crazy schedule.
1:08.4	Oh yeah, no worries, no worries at all. Thanks for being here.
1:12.6	How did you get started on the whole YouTube journey that you've been on?
1:16.6	How did you, after you got out of prison, what made you want to start a YouTube channel?
1:20.6	Yeah, I never thought I would talk about my time in prison.
1:23.6	It was not something that I even wanted my own family to know about because it was so
1:28.5	rough and I'm sure we'll get into that. But I actually found this gig where I was talking to
1:36.1	reentry, a reentry class in prison.
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