It was not a matter of me being in a kind of romantic atmosphere internally about the truth of suffering in a very violent, rage-filled penitentiary system, but it was developing the capacity to see the truth of a particular kind of suffering.Per individual, every individual had a different narrative.
I'm the Gang Intelligence supervisor at Colorado State Penitentiary . Colorado State Penitentiary is where we keep probably the most dangerous offenders in the State of Colorado. And we were actually the first facility-- were we the first facility?
through the ups and the downs. The Colorado State Penitentiary , I don't know if you are aware, but it's the absolute worst that the State of Colorado has to offer as far as punishment minus the death penalty. You go to prison-- you get in trouble, you go to prison.
So I grew up in this environment. I'm in a penitentiary the next.
after he kissed his-- cheated on-- his wife cheated on him. Then you go to the penitentiary , and you still feel bad. So there's-- you're sort of filled at times with a sense of they did the crime, and I'm doing the time.
or 2000. He went from 2000 to 2005. He's in the federal penitentiary , and he was prosecuted under something called Project Exile, where if you carry a gun, an illegal gun in the State of Colorado, you automatically got a five-year federal prison sentence.
So I grew up in this environment. But I was also in the penitentiary .
So I grew up in this environment. And when I was in the penitentiary , I was the same person.
accents surrounded by them him Den you sometimes feel a little like one of those brainy slicksters over at the federal penitentiary in Milan Michigan for like them you're locked up and keyed down
So my name is Brandon Hagans. I'm the Gang Intelligence supervisor at Colorado State Penitentiary . Colorado State Penitentiary is where we keep probably the most dangerous offenders in the State of Colorado.
And it's when we hold really, all beings in equal regard. And I had when I was working in the penitentiary of New Mexico a really deep experience of walking into a system that is characterized by a lot of violence, of working inside as a volunteer for six years
They arrested the Bogles. And Rooster was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary in Huntsville. It was only after all the boys finally got out of prison and came home that their father and mother decided they should move away from Amarillo because police
So I grew up in this environment. I had 10 years that I was in the Texas State Penitentiary .
So I grew up in this environment. Because I used to be sitting in my penitentiary cell looking through the Plexiglas window past the barbed wire, and I would see that tower.
So I grew up in this environment. Or I'm going to stay-- I'm in a penitentiary .
When I was 14 years old, I went to a boarding school in England. The closest thing you have to that America is the penitentiary . So I went to an English boarding school where I had an English teacher, whose name was Mr. Coleman.
These problems happen here in California as well. Most people have no idea the horrors of maximum security penitentiary life.
left the prison at 109 pounds." When my sentence was over in France, I was extradited to Sweden where I was later convicted of forgery in a Swedish court of law and sent to a Swedish penitentiary in Malmo, Sweden. When my prison term was up in Sweden, US federal authorities took custody of me and returned me to the United States.
I'm going to tell you a story about how I graduated from the prestigious University of Texas at Austin with a 4.0. But it was after I was locked up in the Texas State Penitentiary , convicted of four felonies. So that's why do what I do.
Hi, my name is Ronnie Madrid. And I am an entrepreneur in training, graduate from the first class in Colorado State Penitentiary . I agree, it's been amazing.
You get in trouble in prison, you go to the hole. You keep getting in trouble, they send your butt to Colorado State Penitentiary . And it's a war zone.
I have the great honor of serving in the Himalayas in our nomads clinic working with now thousands of people in the most remote villages in the high Himalayas who have no access to health care, and also having worked as a volunteer in the penitentiary of New Mexico on death row in maximum security for six years and really learning a lot, learning a lot about how compassion operates, and what it is, and also there's a kind of deficit
Rooster also did not believe in celebrating Christmas or birthdays. And years later, while he was incarcerated in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, Bobby could remember only one Christmas when his father gave him a Christmas present.
So I grew up in this environment. That made four, and they sent me to the Texas State Penitentiary .
So I grew up in this environment. I'm on parole. I get out of the Texas State Penitentiary on parole, and I get re-admitted to the prestigious University of Texas
So I grew up in this environment. Because it was like, wow, I was in the penitentiary .
And I'm pointing at Bob. Then we have our weekly classroom sessions, which are every Tuesday at both Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility and Colorado State Penitentiary .