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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much, but one thing that seems to unite them is the desire to reform our prisons. |
| 0:08.0 | The far left wants to close or even |
| 0:15.0 | leading figures on the right think that we are locking too many people up. |
| 0:19.0 | They want to give convicts a first step back into the public. |
| 0:24.3 | One of the most prominent faces of prison reform |
| 0:26.8 | is a man named Sheldon Johnson. |
| 0:28.8 | Johnson was a gangster who was released from prison |
| 0:32.1 | last May after spending 25 years in prison for murder. |
| 0:35.0 | A long time, though perhaps not so long given that he murdered someone. |
| 0:40.0 | Anyway, since he was released, Johnson has become a major advocate for prison reform, |
| 0:45.4 | appearing on all sorts of media outlets, including Joe Rogan just last month. |
| 0:50.0 | You have a whole bunch of different entities under this one large umbrella, right? |
| 0:58.0 | And I remember, I was getting paid 17 cents an hour at one point in time, 19 cents an hour, and you know for operating these big |
| 1:07.6 | machines and they were producing just like a massive amount of, a core craft is actually a fortune 500 corporation and they function |
| 1:17.0 | they regulate out of the prison industrial complex. The prison industrial complex. |
| 1:23.0 | The prison industrial complex. |
| 1:25.0 | He was being paid slave wages, terribly unjust. |
| 1:28.0 | So anyway, that guy was just arrested again, again for murder. And not just murder. He was arrested after having been caught |
| 1:36.2 | on surveillance video disguised in a blonde wig in an apartment with a |
| 1:40.5 | dismembered body. When police entered the apartment and arrested Johnson, |
| 1:45.0 | they found the dead man's torso, initially, no head or arms. |
| 1:49.0 | That's when they looked in the freezer where they |
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