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REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Inmates at Calipatria Brett May & Alex Zapien discuss being an LWOP (life without the possibility of parole)

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Brett May and Alex Zapien are serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) at Calipatria State Prison – a maximum security facility in the remote California Desert, 40 miles from the Mexican border. We had a unique opportunity to go inside Calipatria to discuss their early lives, the horrible mistakes they made, and their search for redemption during 20 years of incarceration – including the leadership roles they have taken in driving peace inside the prison as well as new programs like Words Uncaged, which has brought art and media to inmates’ lives. This is part 1 of a series inside of America's prisons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on everybody is John, Bam Bam the dog. First on behalf of

0:05.5

both of us and everybody from the Real One's team, I just want to sincerely

0:09.1

thank you guys for tuning in. The folks that I bring on the show, their family to

0:13.7

me and being able to tell their stories and bringing you into their world

0:17.6

something I'm just super proud of and again grateful that you guys tune in. We

0:22.2

decided we want to take things just a step further. We're going to introduce a

0:25.4

Patreon community and basically what that means is if you become part of this

0:29.2

community, look, I already bored Bam Bam. If you want to become part of this

0:32.6

community, you're going to be able to hear episodes early and all that, add free

0:35.8

and all that good stuff but there's all this behind the scenes footage, all this

0:39.4

stuff that we've shot that really brings you into the folks that we've had on the

0:43.5

show really brings you into their world. You're going to be able to do live chats

0:46.3

with me and the folks that I bring on the show to talk about their world, talk

0:49.4

about the issues that they're dealing with, about their triumphs and their

0:52.2

tragedies. Just go to Patreon slash Real One's. This whole idea was something about

0:58.3

building bridges and and and bringing people together and bringing folks that

1:02.2

often don't get the mic and and giving the mic to them. So the fact that you

1:05.8

guys tune in means of world. Anyways, again, thank you. Be good to each other

1:09.4

out there. Rock a roll. Brett, can you just tell everybody where we are? So

1:16.1

we're at Calipatra State Prison. We're on C-R. On C-R. And can you tell

1:20.6

everyone what your name is? My name is Brett May. 41 years old and I've been

1:26.6

since to a term of life without the possibility of parole. Life without the

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