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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit |
0:10.1 | Detective Gary Jenkins. |
0:17.4 | Welcome all you wiretappers out there, back in the studio of Gangland Wire. I'm here with a new friend of |
0:23.3 | mine, Chad Marks, spent a lot of time in the penitentiary, and it's come back out a changed man. |
0:28.8 | We're going to talk with Chad about his time in the penitentiary and what he's doing now to help change society. |
0:35.5 | Welcome, Chad. Well, thanks for having me, Gary. |
0:38.0 | Don't remind me your website. Like I said, I kind of hurried this up, but I didn't make a lot of notes. |
0:42.4 | So what was your website again? Okay, so I got a paralegal and prison consultant firm. |
0:47.4 | It's Freedom Fighters Paralegal and Prison Consultant firm. You can find it at www. |
0:51.3 | www. Myfreedomfighters.com. You also were connected with the fam, families against mandatory |
0:57.7 | minimums. And I think you got caught up in a mandatory minimum. Is that right? Yeah, at the age of 24, |
1:04.2 | I was arrested for a crack cocaine conspiracy and 2924C counts. That's possession of a weapon |
1:09.8 | and furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. |
1:11.7 | So I ended up with a 40-year mandatory minimum sentence when I was 24 years old. |
1:15.7 | I got five years for the first gun, which was a 12-gauge shotgun, and 25 years for a 22 rifle and 10 years for the drugs. |
1:22.5 | And they are all stacked on top of each other for a 40-year mandatory minimum. |
1:26.5 | In fact, Gary, I ended up getting |
1:27.7 | out of prison based off the First Step Act. When the Trump administration passed that, they passed |
1:33.2 | a particular part of the compassionate release motion. Yeah. And I was able to get out that way. |
1:39.1 | Yeah. It's not. I'd still be in there today. Yeah, really. When I was in law school, I got involved |
1:43.9 | a little bit in |
1:44.8 | this, families against mandatory minimum, because after, you know, I've been a policeman, |
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