MILWAUKEE 53206 chronicles the lives of those living in the ZIP code that incarcerates the highest percentage of black m | dG1fNmNxWHQzaDFGQ2s
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00:00It always feels like there's something missing.
00:11My husband has been incarcerated for 21 years.
00:22He never forgets a birthday, he never forgets a special occasion.
00:27There has been more people that have been incarcerated out of this area than any area
00:38in the entire world.
00:40Not because they were hardcore criminals, because if we let the truth be told, we're
00:44no more safe.
00:45Black male incarceration is a terrible thing in terms of its impact on the stability of
00:50neighborhoods.
00:51It's an outcome of a whole lot of other instabilities in these neighborhoods that are creating this
00:57no-win situation.
00:59There are people who have to be punished and go to prison.
01:02The problem that I have is that when people come out, there's not an end to the process.
01:07It's also part of a bigger picture of thousands of other people just like you that's also
01:12right in that judge, you know, asking for a second chance.
01:16You know how many times I was pulled over in high school or got caught with like a dime
01:20bag of marijuana and they call your parents and you go home when in the urban communities
01:25you get stopped and now you're sent to juvie, now you're sent to lock up, now you're in
01:29the system, and now you're set down this path that is so hard to come back from.
01:34Men from our community, you just don't see them no more, and you don't think about the
01:37fact that they're doing five years, ten years, fifteen years, a hundred and fifty years.
01:421.5 million black men are missing from our society.
01:47It goes against every sense I have of how America's supposed to work.
01:50If people know the truth and if people stick together and if people stand up, that we actually
01:55can change the way things are done.
01:57This is shit, we're not paying attention to what we're doing as men, it is a generation
02:01of young people that surround us, watching us, aspiring to be just like us.
02:06I can't really say where I'll be in five, ten years.
02:10I can say that I'm going to work hard to get further than I am right now.
02:25I'm going to work hard to get further than I am right now.