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Gangland Wire

Chad Marks Prison Storyteller

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chad Marks Crime Chad Marks tells how a court gave him a forty-year forty sentence in the Federal Prison System. At age 24, Chad Mark was facing most if not all of his life in prison for a non-violent drug crime. To make matters worse, if that is possible, the Bureau of Prisons sent him one of the worst and toughest federal prisons in the system. Chad Marks survived 17 years in places where beatings, stabbings, and death were part of every day. After he was able to obtain an early release he wrote Blood on the Razor Wire to tell the story of how he turned a life of despair into a life of hope. In this book, the reader can feel the disappointment, hope, fear, and desperation of never knowing if today will be your last day in every paragraph. Chad Marks – The Rest of the Story During his time “behind the walls,” Chad taught himself the law and became known as “Lawyer,” by both staff and prisoners. Chad Marks secured releases and/or reduction of sentences for many fellow inmates. He taught classes in basic reading and writing to many inmates. He found himself teaching Alternative to Violence Project Seminars, Leaders Breed Leaders, and many other rehabilitative programs. In 2019 Chad wrote and filed his own Moptio0n for Reduction of Sentence and a court sided with him and reduced his 40 year sentence to 20 years. After his release Chad  Marks continues his work for prisoner’s rights as a paralegal for Freedom Fighters & Prison Consultants. He is also the owner of FEL$CON, a business that provides services to prisoners across the country. Chad Marks – The Entertainer Chad is the kind of guy who never stays still. In addition to his other work and his book, Blood on the Razor Wire, he produces a series of YouTube Videos on his On The Razor Wire Channel, . Check out his Channel for many great prison stories. Show notes by Gary Jenkins Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

Transcript

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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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