I was introduced to drugs. I didn't turn 15 and say, okay, where's the coke at?

Where's the weed at? I didn't say that. It came to me. My village failed me. So after that betrayal, what happens to you? I cut my ankle brace it off. And then I heard or not that Monday morning. And it was my probation officer with two cops. How did your mom react to you being sentenced to spend two years of your life in, you know, essentially a prison for children.

This is Mici Marillo.

As a teenager, she was thrown into the system and locked away,

not because she was beyond saving,

but because nobody ever stopped to ask why she was hurting in the first place.

Mici, welcome to Lockton.

Thanks so much for leaving the warm to come to the cold today. Ian, this is love right here. Let me tell you. This is love. Yeah. Because I don't do this. I only do this for my kids that are locked up. You know, so this is love right here. So thank you for having me. Well, the warm coat looks good on you. I don't think you're rocking that in Florida. Oh, no, so I had to pull it out. No, it looks fresh. You got the boots ever, the whole outfit. It looks good. Appreciate you, brother. Yeah, appreciate you. And, you know, tell the audience about this. This is the coolest book I've ever received from a guest. And I get a lot of books, pretty much every guest that comes, but this has its own package. Like this, this is sick. Thank you. Whoever came up with this, you got to give them a raise. Me. All right, so give yourself a raise right here. That's awesome. Do you want to just tell the audience about this? I love to this in the description. Absolutely. So that book right there is Cell Dreamer.

I created that book because I was locked up my entire teenage years, my entire teenage

years.

And even the name Cell Dreamer is because I was in a cell dreaming of a better life.

I wanted something better.

And I was like, you know what? If I take you back, I'm going to take you for a ride. But I ended up creating that book because I created what I needed. I'm a former juvenile delinquent. My entire teenage years, I was locked up from the age of 14 and 18. In and out, and out, and it out, and it out. It was that school to prison pipeline that no one talks about.

You know, like, even, like, all these artists, they have a pass and it's crazy because

when you go and you look at their history, I give them a lot of respect for where they

are now because when you don't escape that school to prison pipeline, it's

harder for you to succeed. You know, and it was something I wasn't able to escape. And like I said,

I was locked up. My father didn't come back. And I see this story because it's like, what?

At four years old, my father was like, don't blow out your birthday candles. I'll be right back, and he never came back yet. Like, never came back. And I think it did something to my soul to where I was like, you know what? I was rebelling. And my mom moved me from New York to Boston, a little town called Hey,ro, and I turned that place upside down.

And I was just mad.

I was angry and got locked up the first time because I had weed second time.

My mom bailed me out.

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