LA has the largest jail system in the country.

You got people that have been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.

Off the block, stories tracing the path from city block to cell block and back.

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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries.

It's a part of KCRW's independent

producer project. And today on the program we'll listen to a story from

Broadcasting Legend Joe Frank. This is one he produced for this program four years ago after several years away from the radio

That's when he started putting together new episodes for unfiction and even though Joe's been slowed down by medical problems over the past year or so, he keeps writing and editing, so when his next show is done, you'll hear it here first.

Joe Frank has been making his original and instantly identifiable programs for over three decades.

He has a devoted and massive following of listeners, many of whom, like me for example,

were so inspired by his work they became radio producers themselves,

and most of them can probably still remember when they first heard a Joe Frank program.

I mean, I had never heard anything like it.

There is just something incredibly directly. I mean I had never heard anything like it.

There is just something incredibly direct and pure and intense about it.

And it's just someone who's just talking to you

and it has just getting right into your brain.

That's Jonathan Goldstein.

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