What These Walls Won't Hold | A Second Chance
Clip: Season 12 Episode 3 | 1m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
An incarcerated man sees a second chance on the outside for himself and his family.
Lonnie Morris once said "Me and my families, they really believe, you know, that I'm getting out of prison but it's really difficult for me to get out of prison. So I'm stuck in this kind of no man land of trying to be honest and truthful with them but not creating any illusions." But now the man incarcerated at California's San Quentin State Prison has a second chance on the outside.
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What These Walls Won't Hold | A Second Chance
Clip: Season 12 Episode 3 | 1m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Lonnie Morris once said "Me and my families, they really believe, you know, that I'm getting out of prison but it's really difficult for me to get out of prison. So I'm stuck in this kind of no man land of trying to be honest and truthful with them but not creating any illusions." But now the man incarcerated at California's San Quentin State Prison has a second chance on the outside.
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Lonnie: That's right.
- Rahsaan: How you feeling about that?
- I'm feeling good about that, m I think that, you know, it's com and it's agonizing.
You know, the wait is a little a I ain't gonna pretend, but I'm so thankful to Allah, that I'm on Ramadan.
That's calmed my spirit down, you know what I'm saying?
Because I don't have the energy you know, so.
Rahsaan: What's the third thing you gonna do when you get out?
Lonnie: I don't know, bro.
Rahsaan: The third thing, bro, I Lonnie: You waiting for the weirdest fuckin' answer.
Everybody wanna the first thing?
Yeah, the third thing you gonna do.
I don't know.
Rahsaan: That's what's up.
Thank you, our OG.
Rahsaan: Ah, ah.
Ramadan Mubara Adamu: Lonnie had always, for so many of us inside, represented the resilience of the human spirit.
In him, we could see how someone could transform all of that 45 years of it, into a meaningful and purposeful existence, that in spite of our wretchednes we were still living, even behind these walls.
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