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00:00We didn't join the Corps because we felt like it.
00:07We joined because it was a life decision.
00:10We wanted to live by a code, sir.
00:13And we found it in the Corps.
00:16A lot of prisoners acting all day.
00:18You put on personas and you're not going to take any shit from anybody.
00:22People saw me as a wolf, so I was a wolf.
00:24But then when the people in RTA saw me as a man,
00:28I had to be a man.
00:30We have to be honest about everything that this is.
00:34We're not innocent. We've wronged people.
00:36And that has to be acknowledged.
00:38For a long time, I was a full-grown man.
00:41But I wasn't a man. And I thought I was.
00:44Because I was living by codes and rules and regulations
00:48that were given to me by the streets.
00:51I wish that I had not killed him.
00:55We robbed drug dealers.
00:57That was my thing.
00:59I committed a crime. I got 25 to life.
01:01I know I've changed a lot,
01:03but I also know that somebody has to pay for what happened to that person.
01:07There are individuals who mentored me,
01:09and I stand on their shoulders, and I'm representing them, too.
01:12I'm telling you where to go. I'm doing this.
01:14You gotta get it. You know it.
01:16He began to improvise, and I didn't know what he was doing.
01:19Smash that. That does not exist anymore.
01:21I knew that that wasn't in the play.
01:23You put people's lives in danger.
01:25And I'm just like, sweet dreams, son.
01:27Don't call me son.
01:29Here you get the G. I know you can do it.
01:31That night, I was like, yo, man,
01:33that's the same thing that cost me my freedom.
01:35You're under arrest, you son of a bitch.
01:37Everybody needs something, you know, to help them in life.
01:41For me, I have RTA.
01:43It's like you have brothers.
01:44Let's go.
01:45It's me and my gang.
01:46I said I don't need an attorney.
01:48Yes, sir.
01:49Do you ever lay down at night
01:50reflecting back on your life and all the foul stuff you did?
01:53Hearing voices in your head like,
01:54brother, you ain't shh.
01:56That's the sound of your self-accusing spirit.
01:58It's a beautiful sign if you can hear it.
02:00I'm grateful that I came into contact with RTA.
02:03I'm grateful that I did take this opportunity
02:05to grow into the man that I'm supposed to be.
02:08And I'm grateful for the opportunity
02:09to get some things accomplished when I leave.
02:12I'm trying to defend the nation.
02:15All you did here today was weaken the country.
02:18That's all you did.
02:20Criminals are heroes.
02:21They're warriors.
02:22Criminals are heroes, sir.
02:24They're heroes.
02:25We're being tested.
02:27It's better to be loved and respected
02:30than it is to be feared.
02:32You go back to your cell,
02:33but it's like you ain't in your cell no more.
02:35It's like you suspended for a minute.
02:38Are you saying it's not possible
02:40for this court to hear the truth?
02:42I got a lot of apprehension about leaving prison.
02:45A lot of times, you know,
02:46they hate God for the nature of the crime,
02:49and they just keep hitting God.
02:51You can't handle it, son.
02:53You can't handle the truth.
02:55So for anybody who questions
02:56why should we have a program like RTA,
02:58they need to understand the mission statement of DOC.
03:01It's not just to punish us.
03:02It's also to make us a better fit for society.
03:04It's programs like RTA that does that job.
03:07There are a few good men in here.
03:09There's a few good men in here
03:11that's trying to be men.
03:14One gate away.