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From the Ted Talk by Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you
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One of the things that hpenaepd after that experience is that I thought about the other men who were incarcerated alongside of me, and how much I wanted to share this with them. And so I started talking to them about some of their experiences, and I was dsveatetad to realize that most of them came from the same asbiuve eerntonvmins, And most of them wanted help and they wanted to turn it around, but unfortunately the system that currently holds 2.5 million ppeole in prison is designed to warehouse as opposed to rehabilitate or transform. So I made it up in my mind that if I was ever released from prison that I would do everything in my power to help change that.
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One of the things that ________ after that experience is that I thought about the other men who were incarcerated alongside of me, and how much I wanted to share this with them. And so I started talking to them about some of their experiences, and I was __________ to realize that most of them came from the same _______ ____________, And most of them wanted help and they wanted to turn it around, but unfortunately the system that currently holds 2.5 million ______ in prison is designed to warehouse as opposed to rehabilitate or transform. So I made it up in my mind that if I was ever released from prison that I would do everything in my power to help change that.
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- devastated
- environments
- abusive
- happened
- people
Original Text
One of the things that happened after that experience is that I thought about the other men who were incarcerated alongside of me, and how much I wanted to share this with them. And so I started talking to them about some of their experiences, and I was devastated to realize that most of them came from the same abusive environments, And most of them wanted help and they wanted to turn it around, but unfortunately the system that currently holds 2.5 million people in prison is designed to warehouse as opposed to rehabilitate or transform. So I made it up in my mind that if I was ever released from prison that I would do everything in my power to help change that.
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