Hi. Good morning. This is Mr. Jenkins from Corcoran State Prison. The name of the topic today is “Bullies in Prison.”
We have a lot of bullies in the prison system that overlook. When we say that, it’s a lot of young men in the men prison that have that instinct that they can bully young men that first term, and when we say that it’s people that have been in prison for they first time from 18, 19, 20 on and doesn’t get to know how to manipulate young men that comes in. And it’s no solution to that problem in the prison system because the staff member and the COs they are aware of that, but they doesn’t have a solution for no more than putting them, putting they bully, what we call bully in the hole, or giving them a write-up, but it doesn’t stop the bullying. It starts and stops where “I’m better than you, so you beneath me.” You need, you know, on certain issues you need protection. In, in certain quadrants, and it’s like we have prison gangs in the prison system, and the gang takes over certain things, and it’s like the prison is ran by a prison gang that control the prison system on certain level.
We need to find a way and a bill that can be able to ensure that if you do get caught up and come to the prison, in the prison system, that you will not be bullied, you know. They bullied in school, and people that do do that, and that’a they was bullied when they was in school. So basically, they doing it now, it’s in the prison system. And beyond the percentage in prison as Black, African-American, it’s like, I think it’s 38-39 percent Black in the prison system. Now it had went down, and Caucasian or Latino’s like 48 to 50 percent in prison. It went up. So how do we get this epidemic, it’s like a disease, and some people have these diseases that feel that they not nobody unless they are being known as a bully to be somebody. And that’s the case that, how do you twist that around? And I like to know what, you know, how would you come up, if you was bullied, and how did you handle it? And being in prison, if you was in prison, how did you handle that? And what was your medication? What I call medication, and what was, how you came up to say, “this is what I need to do to not be bullied,” without violence, and we’re trying to give the prison system a better outlook where people can outlook in prison better than what they’re doing now as society.
So, I would love to hear feedback on that. And if you’ve been bullied inside the prison, if you went to prison, or you could know somebody that have, be you know, how I put it, be sure to try to contact me, and I always leave my information at Mr.Jenkins, BM4522-4B-3R-C58, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, California 93212. You can, like I said, we have the tablet what they call, and you can go on gettingout.com and you can text me. Open up account and you can text, and I would text back any information or any input that you have on that. There’s a big [uclear.] It’s something that we need to address on a lot of issues. I know it’s Black History Month, and that’s pertaining some of the it, we can say in Black History, because we had a lot, a lot in the Black History in the past that was bullied. And we have leaders, you know, Black leaders that been bullied, but they came out in being top good leaders for the Black community and other communities. So, next week I will be talking about different, like we have Black History. Why, you know, why did we call it Black History, and what, how do you feel about certain pertaining that surround that, and in the prison system also? So, I would like to hear from you, and thank you for taking the time. If you’re going online to listen to it, I hope you do, and I will talk to you next week. Thank you.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
