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🗓️ 4 June 2019
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It is slavery! The United States prison system is designed to steal lives. Prison reform activist Topeka K. Sam introduces us to Nora Yahya, who spent more than 20 years behind bars. This is her story. (Part 1 of two parts)
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0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Yeah, I'm talking with Nora Yachya. It's a pika K Sam. |
0:13.0 | I talk a lot about freedom and empowerment on the show, |
0:16.0 | but if we're telling the truth about this government, |
0:18.0 | the system is designed and set up to trap people |
0:21.0 | into feeding a system of mediocrity. |
0:25.3 | This is how I look at it, right? |
0:26.3 | Feed a system because people don't want to work. |
0:28.5 | People at the top of the food chain, they don't want to work, |
0:30.2 | they need people to do to work for them |
0:31.8 | for cheap or nothing. And this system is designed for that right so if you get caught up in it and if you're poor. Oh well you don't you don't have any value and so I was just talking with Vincent Bragg who also spent some time from Concreator and he was saying that, you know, the amount of money you get for working and putting up air quotes and how it, you know know the machine is if you have a private |
0:54.4 | prison they're guaranteed a certain number of beds or a certain number of bodies to |
0:58.2 | fill those beds and if they don't get it they can sue the government like it's a |
1:01.3 | system designed to trap people not to value people so how do we |
1:06.2 | navigate this and how do we how do we get around a system that was designed to |
1:11.4 | keep us enslaved because this is slavery yeah it is |
1:14.2 | slavery there is no retirement plan when you get out none you can't even get insurance |
1:19.0 | which is crazy about that you can't get insurance for the whole we were working you have to |
1:23.4 | unicorn you work it right first of all it is mandatory work detail and then when you |
1:27.4 | work in I work for unicorn federal prison industries and so I was a lead |
1:32.2 | inventory clerk which meant all I did was sit on a computer and look at all the inventory that came in where we were the warehouse, the women built radio mounts for the U.S. military. |
1:42.0 | And so I would see all the contracts that were coming |
1:45.0 | and make sure that the inventory that came and was accounted for. |
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