Turk recently spoke with DJ Smallz to discusses changes he’d like to see introduced to the modern-day prison system throughout the United States.
The New Orleans, Louisiana rapper—who spent over eight years behind bars from April 2004 to October 2012 for second degree attempted murder—says that the financial gains of having people in prison is part of the larger problem.
“Man, them locking up people for anything and holding them in there for all these years when they knowing that it’s a petty charge or this person innocent,” Turk says when asked what changes he’d like to see introduced. “You know this person ain’t do it but you gon’ build a case by holding them in there all this time and by the time you done had them in there you come with a plea bargain and you done broke them. Some people got weak minds. They’ll break and they’ll cop out for something they didn’t do. There’s a lot of people in there like that. You gotta think, prison is a big corporation. There’s a lot of people invested in there, a lot of private owners. So each inmate that they holding every day, they getting bread from that, they getting a couple hundred from every inmate [and] that’s why it’s so overpopulated.”
Turk’s interview with DJ Smallz can be viewed below:
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If we could get some blunts and KFC to all these black inmates there lives would be so much better
Harold’s chicken for my 773 brethren
phuck you
wether u want to admit it or not, Turk is right….70 of the prisons are corporate prisons…Big businesses likeLevis jeans, the U.S. Army, Victoria Secret etc all get free labor from inmates ..the whole reason of locking minorities up is to fill the needs of free labor ….it’s capitalism…it’s like modern day slavery…and the funny part is that they have the audacity to complain about the unemployment rate…they don’t care about the unemployment rate because they rather get free prison labor….every time u buy your girl some Vicky Secret your supporting and funding modern-day slavery…facts
Just think, all you have to do to thwart their evil plan is to not do things that will put you in jail…facts
Glad Turk is speaking on this. The government/politicians believe it’s more profitable to incarcerate an destroy peoples lives/families all to build more prisions an profit off the ignorance of the masses. Amerikkka needs to address the social engineering that causes this system to exist…. Create awareness
Thanks Fuckboy, I mean Hotboy Turk for telling us someting we already know. Only problem is aint nobody gonna take ya heroin addicted ass seriously. We need real Community speakers to talk about this on a national level.
And I suppose that the “Community Speakers” are coming up with a resolution? Where are these community speakers that you speak of? Where are the people that can fix a broken system?
…………………………….huh? Stfu dumbass. Did i say they were comming up with a resolution? If u actually read my comment , what Im saying is we need people with credibilty to talk about these issues. Not some heroin addict gangbanger, who nobody is gonna listen to.
And where are they? Do YOU know any? Are you one? Don’t hate on a person that is speaking their mind from a 1st person standpoint, and you have no solution other than what somebody else needs to do. You should be the one to get your ignorant ass the “FOH”! Sick of you dumb asses that hate just to hate but have nothing to contribute. STFU and click on something else and hate on that too.
Yeah there just going around putting people in prison so Victoria Secret has free labor? Yeah ok.
its prison.. you don’t end up there from doing charity work at the church. don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time