And I got a terrible feeling, man.

I'm like, something's wrong.

Like, you know, so I start shooting at him.

All as I know is that if somebody's disrespecting me, I should just take off on them at that time.

My guest today is a man named Christopher Curtis.

Chris is from Orange County, California, and was serving a life sentence in the CDC under the infamous California three strikes law.

He spent years on level four prison yards

where he described the other inmates as killing for sport. These are his words. He has a fascinating

story about his time in the streets and how he ended up with a life sentence, what prison is like

for people doing life, and what happened to allow him to clean himself up

and get out early. He's got a great book about his story, Orange County, the Dark Side,

available on Amazon right now. He's only been out of prison for two years, off of a 20-year

stretch, but he's turned his life around. He's an electrician. He's getting married.

And he helps at-risk youth. 5% of the proceeds from his book go to helping these youth.

So make sure to go out and get it. It's a great read. Without further ado, I give you Christopher

Curtis right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. I come out of the hotel room.

Our car just surrounded me. And I'm looking at each one of them. And I'm like, I got a clock 45 on my lap. So I'm in another high-speed chase. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running.

And he pulls out a burner, shank, like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of a place alive.

It shows you how violent California used to be, though.

Like, they imposed these incredibly harsh sentences because there was so much violence in the streets.

It still is.

It's just suppressed.

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