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SURVIVING 10 Years In VIOLENT Federal PRISONS | Mykal Hall

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

After selling guns to undercover agents and going on the run, teenager Mykal Hall is sentenced to 10 years in the federal prison system. In this episode we dive into the violence that occurs in some of America's roughest prisons, what Mykal had to do in order to survive a 10 year prison sentence and how he was able to turn it all around after losing a decade of his life. Connect with Mykal Hall:https://instagram.com/therealbroaddayboom?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093901632076&mibextid=LQQJ4dhttps://music.apple.com/us/artist/broadday-boom/1682348714https://instagram.com/foa_tim?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg==Connect with Ian Bick:www.ianbick.comJoin our membership program to get early access to interviews, behind-the-scenes photos & more: https://www.youtube.com/@ianbickCT/me...00:00 Intro01:03 Childhood 07:04 Start of Trouble 12:17-Caught by the feds/ Went on the run23:16 Sent to FDC Philadelphia24:20 Court case and Firing his lawyer29:41 Being a new father in jail and relationship with his baby's mother31:46 First days in Lee County Prison 38:49 Inmates versus Guards / Interaction with people sentenced to life39:50 Interactions with people sentenced to life49:16 Con air51:54 Currency in prison 53:10 Gambling 53:41 K2 55:14 Prison hustle59:23 Hardest thing about prison 1:04:16 Fighting CO’s1:07:14 Razors in prison1:08:36 Regrets in Prison/Feeling institutionalized 1:10:01 Adjusting to life after prison 1:14:15 What to tell your younger self Powered by Q29 Productions, LLC Connect with Ian Bick: https://www.ianbick.com/Subscribe to our membership program on YouTube to get early access to interviews, see behind the scenes photos & more:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvVklIft6DMelVW18M0oBw/joinPowered by Q29 Productions, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Locked in with Ian Bick. This week's episode, really, really, really interesting because we are

0:08.3

focusing on federal prison penitentiaries. I interview Michael Hall and how he got a 10-year

0:15.9

federal prison sentence and how he spent his time going to different federal penitentiaries and medium federal

0:23.2

security prisons throughout the United States. In this episode, we dive into his upbringing,

0:29.7

the crimes that led him to the 10-year sentence, and how he navigated the federal prison system.

0:35.8

Hope you guys sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode. And please, please,

0:40.2

please do us a favor. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your

0:47.3

podcast from. It helps boost our show and get it out to more people. I'm your host Ian Bick,

0:53.2

and thank you guys again for tuning in

0:56.0

to my podcast, Locked in. Michael Hall, welcome to the show, man.

1:07.1

Yes, sir. I love the energy, bro. You're very, you know, for a guy that just did 10 years in prison, you're, you're upbeat, you're

1:12.7

excited, you know, ready to share your story. That's great. I'm like this every day, bro. What was your inspiration for coming on the show today? I got to ask. I was watching, I was watching you. I watched it. He sent it to me, and then I started watching it. Hold on my bat.

1:08.2

Not right now.

1:09.3

Yeah.

1:10.0

So he sent me your own.

1:13.5

Yeah. So he sent me your own your Instagram and sent me like your videos and stuff like that. So I started watching and I'm listening to the dude's story. I'm like, yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's right. That happens. You get what I'm saying? And I was interested. So I'm like, shoot, I would love to come up there and come up there and you know give me my story yeah I'm glad we can make it happen and and I'm excited to

1:48.3

jump into your story where are you from what's your childhood like I mean I'm from Neptune

1:52.6

New Jersey Neptune yeah that sounds like a whole different planet yeah exactly that's what

1:57.6

they call it the planet yeah from Neptune New Jersey man and know, I grew up not like most people, but, you know, some people have it hard. Some people have it good. I grew up, like, in between, hard, good. You know what I'm saying? It goes both ways. I can't just say, like, I had it hard my whole life. You know what I'm saying? I made my choices. What did your parents do for work? Right now my mom worked at like some eye doctor place.

2:02.7

She'd like a secretary. You know what I'm saying? I made my choices. What did your parents do for work?

2:13.8

Right now, my mom worked at like some eye doctor place. She's like a secretary at an eye doctor place. My father in prison. He'd been in jail all the time. While you're growing up, he was in prison. Yeah, he in jail right now. Oh, wow. He always is that. Was that hard for you as a kid? Yeah, because I don't got a father. You know what I'm saying?

2:34.2

So I got older cousins and stuff like that that's basically misleading me, honestly. What about siblings? Did you have siblings? Yeah. I got older sister. I got three sisters and a brother. Older brother or younger? Younger brother. So were you like the kind of like the father figure and the family, the role model? No, because he grew up in

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