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Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Getting a job after serving time is crucial to rebuilding your life, but a criminal record inevitably gets in the way. Four people share stories about how their time inside both helped prep them for jobs outside and impacted their getting back to work.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ralph Diaz, Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. |
| 0:03.6 | This episode of Your Hustle contains language that may not be appropriate for all listeners. |
| 0:08.1 | Discretion is advised. |
| 0:15.9 | Right now I work in the sewer plant. |
| 0:18.7 | What do you do in the sewer? |
| 0:22.6 | It's terrible. |
| 0:25.1 | Like what do you see in the sewer plant? |
| 0:26.7 | What do you do? |
| 0:27.2 | What is your job assist? |
| 0:28.4 | Okay so at my stage I get into my jumpsuit and I put on my rain boots, put on your mask and your |
| 0:34.3 | gloves and then you go down into the pit and all the sewage through the whole facility goes into |
| 0:38.0 | these two little rivers and then there's these grates. |
| 0:40.6 | So my job was I'm clearing out these grates and I use like a hose. |
| 0:44.8 | I'll spray and some days like I could go down there and like knock it very dirty. |
| 0:48.8 | Then other days I'm like ringing out my beard like a wet towel. |
| 0:52.3 | So wait a minute, wait a minute. |
| 0:53.9 | So you say you got shit on your face? |
| 0:55.6 | Maybe not literally like on my face but you know it's a dirty job. |
| 0:58.8 | Your beard is on your face, Shane. |
| 1:03.9 | You're now tuned in to Ear Hustle from PRX's Radio Topia. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm Nigel Pore. |
| 1:09.6 | I've been working with the guys in San Quentin State Prison in California for about eight years. |
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