Sentenced to Life at Age 14, Ian Manuel Reflects on Youth Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

KQED's Forum

KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At age 14, Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole for shooting and injuring a woman. Manuel spent 18 years in solitary confinement, living in a windowless room 10 feet by seven feet wide. He was released in 2016 following the efforts of Equal Justice Initiative's Bryan Stevenson, and with the support of his victim, who advocated for his early release. Manuel captures his experiences in his new book My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption. We'll talk to him about his advocacy work and how the justice system can be improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for KQED podcasts comes from San Francisco International Airport.
0:05.0	Did you know that SFO has a world-class museum?
0:07.9	Get ready to be wowed by art, history, science, and cultural exhibitions throughout the terminals.
0:14.0	Learn more at flysfo.com slash museum.
0:18.6	Support for forum comes from Broadway SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.
0:25.9	From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,
0:32.5	a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime,
0:39.2	it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion. The riveting
0:47.1	and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through
0:53.0	June 8th. Tickets on sale now at
0:56.0	Broadwaysf.com.
1:00.0	From KQED.
1:02.0	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Imagine getting in an elevator, a freight elevator,
1:08.7	so about 7 by 10 feet and windowless. Now imagine
1:12.4	being in that space for 18 consecutive years with hardly any human contact. That's
1:19.7	what Ian Manuel asks us to do in his new memoir to help us begin to understand what it
1:25.6	was like for him in solitary confinement in a Florida prison.
1:30.1	Ian Manuel was 15 years old when he went into solitary confinement and 33 when he came out.
1:37.1	Ian Manuel, welcome to Forum.
1:39.3	Thank you for having me.
1:40.8	And I want to congratulate you on your new memoir titled My Time Will Come, a Memoir of Crime,
1:46.2	Punishment, Hope and Redemption.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KQED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.