I'm In Love With A Death Row Inmate | Free Men (2019) | Full Film

[Music] there's a museum on Cadillacs there's a museum on jelly beans there's a museum on ice cream however we don't have a museum on a death penalty why not so that is that is what I'm pushing pushing Society to create there will be a library um this Museum will actually have um where you can go and and sit down and eat prison food no but then you know what that's the idea you know that's that's that's the idea and if they give me enough time I'm going to do it you have one minute left hey take care bye by and you take care [Music] [Music] byebye [Music] my name is Kenneth reing I grew up and was raised right here in Pine Bluff Arkansas a city that's also called crime Bluff I can't show you my face but I'm going to tell you my story [Music] how did I end up in this situation why did I do this to myself after 20 years of contemplating this stuff crying about it wishing that it could be different I get it now this is a picture of Ken when he was 17 years old he was charged for capital murder and I think he was 18 then one of the worst days in my life one of the worst days I know he's a great artist and I seen um some of his paintings uh I I think it was called solitary confinement is like nothing else around it's just you and I think I saw something he made out of popsicles but I don't know exactly what it was some kind of chair I think it's not just one electric chair is is about three of them and he basically made him out of popsicles and it's in his uh when we went to the art show over in L Rock when it first opened the first event it was they had pictures of all the stuff that he had drawn the stuff that he doing now he used to show signs of it when back when he was little H the years that he don't spend on death row from the time he start he he don't never forget my birthday he don't never forget Mother's Day Ken is like he's incredible you know he's he's wonderful sometime when I get sad I'm going through hard times I think about Ken and what he must been went through since he been there and it helps me pick myself up you know not feel sorry or bad for my myself in a good way makes me keep going when I think about Ken makes me stronger so Dev when we come from the store what you going to do we going to be out for a while oh we got to see what's going on in the community that yep oh thank you for this food thank thank you for this day thank you for all things in Jesus name we pray amen amen God bless thank you bless bless how y'all doing Mak a movie young man making a movie I grew up in that part of America there were points and periods of time where we didn't have food you know as a family there were points and periods of times when uh convey the bills and had to move I would get punished whooping beating for things that I didn't do it was just because my mother was benting and wanting to relieve her pressure stress than you get the whatever happened I want you to continue doing what you doing the best that you can do be the best person that you can be and remember that uh if if there any way you could find in your heart for all of the things that I did I shouldn't have done forgive me because I believe everything we do in this world and on this Earth we got to give account we going to be accountable for [Music] it so how is your day today it's a normal day they Fe breakfast at 2:00 in the morning this is crazy it be lunch at 9:30 in the morning this is lunch I'm reading about Henry for Charles swab Rockefeller look what Henry Ford has done in America I've read books on uh free money for entrepreneurs I've read Steve Harvey book you know um think like a success act like a success you know the Arkansas Department of Correction they have denied one more time our request to make fil interviews with you they say that they're too short of staff to allow this so um you're going to have to tell us your story on the phone is that okay for you okay it's your call sister I'm riding with you [Music] I was too young back then to to Really grasp the magnitude of the devastation the the hurt and the pain that all of this would cause on my family the victim's family and the victim's children and today I you know I I think about those things I'm 18 years old me and AF we had planned to Rob someone at an ATM machine for the purposes of getting about $50 or $60 uh because after needed funds to pay for his cap and gown and and get his uh official [Music] diploma after had the weapon in [Music] hand after approached the truck from the backside I reached into the the driver's side of the truck and as I was leaning in the truck grabbing the keys I heard a pow my ears are ringing everything is in slow motion I was like damn bro why you shooting the man why the [ __ ] you shoot the man and ala said to me I don't know the gun just went off I begin to feel shame I begin to feel remorse I begin to feel guilt mean 30 second span of time you know change of Our Lives for forever [Music] uh-uh before I was sentenced to death I spent a lot of my time at my Aunt aia's house she has always supported me and she still do even today K was uh to me like I had had it he was just that special Ken was just hurting on the inside the mom moved away all the time and I don't know I guess she had anger and B I guess B had some anger in her and uh she would whoop k for a little nothing just beat him just she wanted to stay at the home all the time that's why I guess I hat start running away from home he run our house and the she come looking for I'm going to be his ass I'm going be you tell I'm be beat ass up we will hide key in our closet see someone special he's special to me this is the sunp this is a sunp well we sit door on the way got this door open some walk in here these are my family pictures all some of them I have a whole bunch of them this is Ken's picture this one I keep in look look at been had it so long probably need some glass on this is the girl he was going with when he got in all that trouble name is Londa Mac this is my kitchen I know Ken already told you you come to my house you have to eat I got some macaroni cheese these are some ribs got cold now I got some greens over here in the pot hey hey this is a free call from kenth r anate at Verner what's up what's going on Berard nothing much how you doing you all right yeah yeah I'm doing all right who hey me Mama Linda David Rodney John my daughter say hey sweetheart how you doing I'm all right he check this out it gave me some donuts I ain't had no real donut 23 years I'm talk about a simple donut gave us Donuts we was like man who first of all just being able to eat this food you know we don't eat number prison food here you know that was like whoa it shied my mind hey can I do something for once in my life to make my people proud of me I did it here in AR with just one show I'm going to Europe and I'm doing two shows back to back it's gonna be big for me I am a little B young kid in the streets of pine BL you know 20 some odd years later I'm talking about creating an organization that's going to be a national organiz people from Texas to Pine BL to Conneticut to Minnesota to London to Paris to Washington DC the no about it so this is what I'm doing trying to do something with myself hoping that at the same time that it Inspire other people to to do great [Music] things I wasn't always this way though hello yeah I said I would always way though you can testify to that can't you I know that yep if I know something about anything in the world I know about capital punishment I want to educate people about this that's why I'm trying to create who decides our mission is to educate people about the practice and the history of the death in America through the medium of [Music] art Donna is my aunt on my father's side Donna was instrumental with keeping my spirit alive uh in my early 20s she would visit me every week every week every week every week uh I didn't know Megan before coming to prison even though she's my cousin and she's she's literally supporting who decides and been a part of the organization since day one I didn't know most of the art was gone it has been shipped to London oh this is the um is that the gas chamber this that one will be there that one will is framed and will go all of these are frame Gallow will be there Jesus will be there P bar will be in London Billy Bailey yeah it's um Alabama Southern Justice 1958 negro Jimmy Wilson said to die for stealing a 1.95 electric chair he made a replica of his actual solitary confinement cell and it has everything inside the cell is everything in detail from the shower to where he put his books that he read to where he lay on a flat surface without a mattress you he yes I am standing on my phone and I'm looking at the window as I'm talking on the phone I'm not trying to get comfortable in this prison so what I did I got my mattress V it and forced it out of the door and I've slept on solid concrete for the past 20 some odd years his motivation to me to fight to get out of this [Music] prison do you remember that day where you were sentenced to death it was difficult it was like my world was black I felt that I deserve to be punished but did I deserve to be sented to death alred my co- partner in this Crim he plead guilty and received the life without Paro sentence but here it is I'm being the one send it to [Music] death Cav py is a friend we spent 10 years living next door to each other on death row so we kind of grew into Brothers we motivated each other we we spoke about our dreams we cried and to grow from teenagers to grown men uh in prison was a was wild experience we focused on you know being who we are being men you know that was one of the things that we had conversations about us understanding and knowing what a man is and knowing that I'm only less than a man if I think of myself less than a man and you cannot make me less than a man unless I allow you to and from that aspect that was a lot to do with how we proceeded forward you know Kenall Rings uh felt like he was a man he felt like he was a human being so that mentality made him willing to fight kenin sail door so he could come and stand here and I could come and stand there and we can't just necessarily see each other but you got bars prison bars and they're electric sliding doors so naturally with the electric sliding doors there has to be room to move which opens up that little Gap right there where you could do like this and we could see each other why you ain't keeping it really drinking out of a cup cuz I'm I'm I'm living a high life now I got I'm I'm I'm but uh sure but yeah you're back in the trial court right listen listen listen this is what I do want to say uh any day now the judge can grant a ruling in my case we seing a new trial and I'm confident your case was reversed really our case is like 90% the same as far as how the case opened up in the courts and led to the prison system so it it should be from that aspect they should reverse your case you have one minute left I say this in this one minute that I have left the death tun is so uh imbalanced that Kevin got lucky before I got lucky the system just worked out quicker for him than it is working for me that's what I say but I'm still working at it and hopefully I'll be catching up with you soon bro thank you for using secure us goodbye Kevin is uh the first person to actually walk off a death row with a chance of going home you see it's one thing to walk off death R in America to be exonerated Kevin wasn't exonerated his case was reversed it was something magical he had won the lottery I am going to win the lottery [Music] too [Music] and so what are you working on got several things I'm working on uh I don't have time for you know I don't have time for the [ __ ] they talking about killing me when you in solitary confinement you begin to understand the things that you take for granted in life like you you don't give a thought to that apple or that orange that you're eating in 10 days it's going to be a new year for these he coming one will I get my case reversed will that be the year it looks like it's possible will I be able to say hey I have artwork right now on display in two different galleries will I be able to release for the first time my own plate whoa from behind these Prison Walls um my relationship with Isabelle well that be the year that we actually get married which I am you know hoping in portions uh for you know to happen you have one minute left one of the things that I have not been able to do is get the lady that's on the other end of the phone to stop telling me that okay okay talk to you on Friday bye [Music] first time seeing Iselle was oh man do we really realize how much it's done took for us to actually meet uh I think it was about 2 2006 I received um a letter from Isabelle she was basically writing to say hey I seen you on TV I hope that your situation you know turn out for the best and we start [Music] corresponding but when I begin to speak about the idea of of creating who decides uh it was something that she was sure I I'm willing to support this you and and let's see what happen it was just a magic that happened between me and Isabelle the spirit that she had the spirit and the energy I felt free with Isabel she a fir C to though and I mean it and I mean it in a good way though for spee for speech fore speech speech spee speeech PR num made by KS gift to is [Music] Watson for for po foree [Music] George has one of the top criminal defense lawyers in America he has been my guardian you know George early on would encourage me hey Kenny read read anything you can get your hands on man a purpose in your life do something meaningful he did not have a fear trial at either the guilt phase or at the punishment phase and what ought to happen is that the courts ought to reverse everything and allow this case to start over the worst case scenario is that the courts are just going to look the other way um and they're going to say that yes there might have been serious error here but none of it would have made a difference difference and if that happens then 3 or four years Time 5 years time um Kenny would be looking at execution that's the worst case scenario and that's there are people right now working in Arkansas to make sure that happens as we [Music] speak [Music] the Kenny Reams that I first got to know was a very young very immature kid um well today he is um 40-year old guy and he's um I think inspiring other people on the rad uh he has some goals and you know even though he do get out of that cell he works an 95 job he's created that kind of a world for himself which is if you can do that most people can if you do that you can save yourself from at least some of the ravages of just this enforced you know living in a box it's 23 hours a day in the cell you get one hour an hour each day and then you have some time for exercise a lot of people don't make it they um they break Miss milia how you doing hey Jo long time no see hey how you been I'm bad give me a hug you doing okay yeah what what what bad news no no look hey hey hey that's not a way to start a conversation how are you they you see you doing good yes we want to try to get this resolved so hopefully judge Cole is going to give us something to work with so we can do that okay so Kenny's not looking at being in prison forever okay I get that death sentence overturned he he got a lot of Hope and he has a lot of Hope and uh this Al so it it's so all so overwhelming man just we know we've been at this a long time and you know Kenny's very lucky that he he's had you guys in his corner for all this time because it's hard to do this alone and I know from us his lawyers uh you know you've been enormously helpful all along the way and it's been a long way here right I mean we've been I've been knowing you for two decades so let's just hope now that um all that work that's going to be a little bit of a payoff for Kim for Ken just let's keep our fingers crossed and be hopeful and say your prayers are you here yes so how's your day oh man it's been a it's been a wild day for me and uh my my um my mindset is not um good today today has been one of those difficult days in solitary confinement I feel like uh oh man I'm stressed you know so there's a lot of emotions that I'm dealing with feeling like I done wasted a large majority of my life you know all of those things you just wake up this way this happens sometimes you know yeah just woke up and just felt like I'm tired of this [ __ ] when I said these isolation walls they creep and they crawl looking for that singular moment of mental weakness to be fall that's real you might not get it but I say that these walls creep and they crawl they like a stalker waiting for you if if these walls even smell that you are despair that you are anxiety that you are losing hope that you are without faith they going to get you and I mean that in a in a bad way if you lose focus or spiritually fall these walls will have a feast a feast on your [Music] soul I never close myself in I do it for y'all my friend in dumain knows what it takes to fight solitary confinement look at this cell it's a replica of mine and do may spend 20 years in a sale like this one one two three five can't stopon stop can't stop won't stop one two 3 two one two 3 3 one 2 3 4 when I was in the exercise on uh you know jogging in myself in or doing whatever I was doing for me I could have been I could have been in the park uh so it would be just trying to find different ways to you know kind of push back this this little space that I was in and just open it up open this whole world up exercise for me was this this place that I can I could I mean when I go and just do it uh it would be this place of freedom for me Ken's full of life he's certainly not sitting on death row waiting to die I mean he's actually living while he's there uh and in a lot of ways I can identify with that because I was one of them people I wasn't sitting on death row dying I was actually sitting on death row living I believe I believe I believe I believe we'll win we'll win life remains very simple two opportunities hope hope and despair and despair if we give up we give up only we dare to struggle only we dare struggle only we dare to struggle only we dare to struggle now here's how we going to do it we this is the way we do it Mr andum one time Mr andum two times now let's give it up for him come on that that certainly make me feel uh feel special how you guys doing this evening that's good I'm uh I was sitting in prison for something that I ain't do uh I was charged and convicted of a crime and was sentenced to death and I spent 20 years on death rad and a total of 28 years in prison before I came home June 1st of 2012 I was one of them people that didn't want to listen to my mother and people around me telling me to do the right thing and and so early on I start getting in trouble and uh dropped out of school got in trouble with the law and and some more stuff but that's what made it possible to being falsely accused of a crime that's what made it possible cuz I don't want you to fall into the same trap I fell into what do they do to you like how do they kill you in death how you kill you most States that's using this lethal injection which is scrapping you on the table shooting poison in your vein and killing you how many of y'all in there know somebody locked up been to jail been in trouble yourself yeah so it ain't like uh y'all don't know people around you that's you know that fell into this trap y'all look around the room particularly the young black males the the guys in here you know what the uh statistics is they say one out of every three black males going to end up in the system on probation in prison uh on parole I'm telling you you can always say no and you should say no you should never let nobody uh tell you uh try to make you come and do something that you know is wrong that's going to possibly get you in trouble you know good God bless you hey thanks all right yeah y'all doing good work down here we try I'm just glad to be supp part of the deal I really am thank you for coming hey man thanks for having me all right all [Music] [Music] right what's going on in D brother oh man you know me just out here enjoying it uh enjoying the sunshine really nice today outside you know yeah yeah yeah you doing you doing a whole lot better than me you sitting on the front porch yeah y time is coming you know I Ain Vision seeing this stuff happening for myself again so I'm asking you when you was locked up that you envision sitting here on this front porch at some point again in life I never stopped dreaming about freedom I think that uh H once you do that you know it's over right right right when you was lock down did you feel yourself allowing your art to take you places I always painted uh or wanted to paint what I wanted to see uh so yeah pain pain for me was a a way of just kind of vicariously living through uh through painting you already know that when you sit down just kind of creating uh what's inside of you uh is power in that in it of itself get back get back get back one for me was uh I mean it was a way to escape uh you know and just kind of create U you know create a different reality I mean order in a lot of ways save my life using colors was uh was a form of resistance for me because even though that I was in this colorless environment uh part of my being able to resist was to not let them take the color that was happening in my head they you know let them take that away from me this particular piece uh you know just kind of got these Flames burning you know all around cuz that's how I felt and I knew that if I didn't get out of there um that I too would burn You Kenny I would encourage you to keep doing what you're doing man we out here trying to get you out here I think you deserve to live just like everybody else and uh um you need to keep doing what you doing bottom line don't give up yeah don't give [Music] up [Music] today is a big day for me today is the day that who deze officially opens in London this moment is proof of what's possible when an individual dream for me to know that Isabel is now in London about to witness the opening of our artart event is even more sweet and beautiful because I can say to her baby I told you that this moment was possible toe for speech foreign fore I got $1 [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah this is a free call from k r an inate at Verner this call is subject to recording and monitoring to accept this free call press one to use this free call thank you for using secure us you may start the conversation now hello hey how do the uh exhibit look it's kind of impressive when you walk in because you realize that the work is there you know you know what I'm looking at right now I'm looking at the soap 19 the one that you D inside of soap the 1992 it's in the middle of a board a big white board look at the scale is the little pieces on the scale is the hammer and the chair electric chair okay is it balanced is it evenly balanced yeah it remind me of of all the years that we've been working on it all the stuff that we went through I wish you could just be here in the seat for yourself cuz this is ridiculous out check check this out you hear me what hear me what hey let's go to Cuba I can remember sitting on visitation and saying hey we going to do Monday we going to do you know this and New York and let's go to Cuba for real this is who decides and this still in the beginning [Music] hey so good to see you you good George how are you I'm good you good hi your stuff looks dazzling here my friend okay it's really terrific huh this is very special place I'm working on I'm working on the second exhibit right now good good good yeah we're going to need more after this one okay enjoy the evening I am Amo good evening everybody I want to introduce Samantha who has been instrumental in um get getting the H decide exhibition into Temple and this wonderful venue um and also George Kendall who um we will um Samantha will in introduce herself thank you Margo I was interning at the legal defense Fund in New York George Kendall and Kenny's appeal was one of the cases I worked on I would send him from time to time paints paper and 2 years ago Kenny called me he with a French artist who I'm delighted to say is here today he' managed to produce against the odds 50 works of art and installations which you can see upstairs um Arkansas law allowed um they could charge Kenny with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody uh Kenny had a lawyer who had 800 other clients that one year that lawyer had four other Capital cases that same year he never done a capital case and the kicker is he was a part-time public defender the trial was a disaster and an 11 white one African-American jury convicted him of capital murder and off he went to death row imagine living in your bathroom for the weekend well he's done it for 23 years thank you all for coming [Applause] [Music] tonight today as I was outside on the yard a brother that's next to me he said man the show will be good to just to feel the rain I haven't felt any rain on my body in so long I said check this out you see that grass out there just wait until you get the opportunity to walk on grass when you step on grass for the first time again it's going to feel like you walking on air wow this is grass how does it feel to be in this cage outside oh it's not cool to me I don't like it I have to shift my mind to not feeling like an animal they do tours and the tours come and they it's like when you go to a zoo you know they come and they point they look at us they talk and they say things and that is part of the experience of being caged in how do you feel about your winning the prison did approve for me and Isabelle to get married being that the prison have approved us uh that's the biggest hurdle hello hey good evening good me to you baby how you doing I'm tired you tired you should have went to sleep last night I keep on trying to call the chaplain yes there's no answer so I'm just going to keep on calling and see whenever I get him on the phone so we can get this paperwork for the marriage get going but I need one more thing to know I mean I need to ask you one more thing K what is your size ring I need to know your size ring that's why I know what size my ring is so uh I have to see if the the chaplain have some type of ring or size or what have I would assume that they do because uh I won't be the first inmate to get married and not know what size to ring so yeah you should you should ask you should ask those questions uh whenever you do speak to them and and baby we need to do this this week I know I'm I keep on calling K I'm doing my best I mean I can't make him answer the phone if he's not answering you know you make me do stuff you make me shut up me explain to you why I love you no it's not true so I I don't know why you can't get the chap on the phone it ain't got nothing to do with it and and when we get married I guess then I'll be telling the whole world how much I love you you know what the goodye blimp is it's like a a big old balloon and it float in the air over the cities and I'mma put it on the goodye blimp that uh uh Kenneth GRE love Isabelle Watson and it going to get to the air and it's going to blow up feel good to be able to call you when I wake up all right you take care love you yeah love you I'm going to hang up on you stop youim I hang up byebye byebye byebye [Music] [Music] they are set to execute eight people in 10 days eight individuals being executed in 10 days is classifying my opinion as a mass execution why is he taking this decision now the governor is rushing these execution simply because of the the drug situation there's a drug that Arkansas have that will be expiring they have decided that it would be best and cheaper for the state to execute all of these individuals at one time before the drug expired and it's at the same time that you are planning to get married well life and love is stronger than death good afternoon y'all are going to have to do better than that good afternoon good afternoon if you believe in the dignity and the sacredness of human life say I do I do and father we ask the blessing of your peace and comfort over the men who are facing these sentences that you would bless them and watch over their families and father we ask that your wisdom and your countenance would be on our governor and on those who are making decisions the judges who are reviewing cases we pray that you would give them wisdom everyone said amen now I introduce Damian Eckles in July 2007 new forensic evidence was presented in his case including evidence that DNA collected at the crime scene did not match the defendants he was released from prison in 2011 I give you now Daman e thank you so much bud for being here um you know I still have I still have nightmares I still have panic attacks about this place I still you know sometimes have dreams that I'm uh trapped up in the be bureaucratic Labyrinth of corruption that passes for a justice system here and when I I you know I I don't want to come I didn't want to come back but when I heard about the conveyor belt of death that the politicians were trying to set in motion I guess I knew that I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't come back and try to do something you know if I were to just sit around and and let these people killed I would have to think about that for the rest of my life one of the men who is responsible for saving my life just wanted to say a words because this is someone who who kept me from being killed this is my brother Johnny [Applause] Deb [Music] I'm Kenneth re's cousin I've seen you on business but I never got to shake your hand but I've always walked in with you so yeah yeah but it's so [Music] you have witnessed I don't know how many executions I stopped counting at about 15 and I think the number is in the 20s right about now but this that is taking place now eight execution scheduled in over a 10-day period it is shaking the prison up there a whole lot of thing happening even the individuals that are set to be executive how they are dealing with it the ones that are scared paranoid the ones that have realized that this may just be the end of the road for me or even the ones that are in denial if you feel like you're being really shaken up and you need to talk to somebody then you you tell the war and you want to call up here okay right right all right you got a a real support group and it's in times like this when you use it okay right right you're not there alone okay but hey I say this to you too when y'all help me get out this prison now you ask the tough question I'm ready to get out of this prison right well well that we're working on it okay right right we're working on it we hope to have an update for you soon okay hopefully hopefully yes yeah and that's the question what do we call soon I've been doing this 20 some years soon might be three years for me you know no we're not talking we're not talking we're talking now uh uh very very soon okay right right right okay hang in there buddy okay see you all [Music] right [Music] fore [Music] for [Music] [Music] fore [Music] where [Laughter] oh some [Laughter] AE [Music] the [Laughter] spe I love you baby I love you baby I love you baby [Music] 28th Avenue Pharmacy P 25th voila hey Isabelle hey girl hey Isabella hey I wonder where you was at what you doing to my hair your hair so wild or wi I'm going to be Mrs rims RS RS my name is not miss wson no more my name is Isabelle rims RS I said that's what I said you said rims okay let's say it again say it again rims rims Rim rims RS like saying green R rims I can't say it that's all right how you spell Rim I'm have a name how you sp ring you know I only have two days two days to do all this find the Rings get the dress I want to go you want to go with me yeah for what so you won't get l oh you'll be my GPS the thing in the back of my back bothers me yeah if you can find a our park over here we going to go in right here want me to go closer that was close oh might be close over there SP right there y let's go everybody all right d I'm being nor I'm being myself can can we go oh Lord a I supposed to be myself Come on B let's go you sure you don't want something to that you I can push you in fine okay I want to wear something that I really like I don't want to just buy yeah that is pretty I love this this one is 300 and something and I could do it for 300 for you and then you get a men's ring for another 100 no I need to say with 50 for him I'm not going to tell you why I'm just going to tell you he's not allowed to have no more than $50 on this ring okay Point Blank it's like this so I might have $50 ring for him also oh my God what is a size seven size 7 yeah that's small hands yeah smaller than mine oh that I know like f is a 50 we still around 50 yeah it's Electro plated don't about it let me show you that right NE above what shot I really love this one in here yeah it's a beautiful ring it looks very nice on your welcome to the Arkansas Department of Correction my name is Solomon Graves I'm the public information officer for the ADC earlier this evening uh Don Davis did receive his his uh Last Meal which consisted of fried chicken rolls Great Northern beans and mashed potatoes fruit punch and strawberry cake for dessert once again fried chicken rolls Great Northern beans mashed potatoes and strawberry cake still possible the execution takes place at 7 today uh I would say at this point it's 5:44 um Never Say Never but we're waiting on the courts before we can [Music] proceed [Music] M check one to uh but at this point we remain ready to carry out these sentences uh should uh courts intervene but as of this point we remain in a holding [Music] pattern you here yeah yeah I can hear you now I don't know what happened how you doing I'm okay I'm I'm good it's been difficult but I'm good we stayed up mostly the whole day the whole night you know um focusing thinking on what's going to happen what's next it's a continued Saga it's continue Rodeo ride how's your way to deal with it to figure out how the hell I'm going to keep from making that same making that same path to they going down it motivate me to figure out how to keep from end up getting my number called on that list you know I was worried about you I'm a soldier and I'm a soldier sister I'm a I'm a soldier you can't stop me you might slow me down you might just slow me down but you can't stop me I still have the energy of trying to get out of this prison and and trying to do better for myself and positive in the world so I'm good don't don't stress about me okay thank you foring by take care bye [Music] bye speech for [Music] [Music] you well B we getting ready for an experience oh yeah what life something we never did in life and something we probably never do again in [Music] life [Music] Isabelle will you have Kenneth or Kenny to be your wetted husband will you love him comfort him honor and keep him in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live I will Kenneth will you take Isabelle to be your wedded wife will you love her comfort her honor and keep her in sickness and Health as long as you both shall live I will then I pronounce that they are husband and wife together in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy [Music] Spirit [Music] hey hey hey hey looking good I need to find a bathroom around here hey y'all [Music] [Applause] congratulations [Applause] [Music] conrat this is your reception but I don't she did this do he wanted to do this for you don't cry B I'm happy baby that's what I'm say you happy I'm so happy can you hear me Isabelle yeah I can hear it baby hey I surprised you one more time didn't I she cried she C I love you baby you hear me oh that's so sweet I thank all of y'all that's in this room right now for everything y'all done gave to me your patience you know I done argue with some of you I done cry with some of you you know what I'm saying I thank all of y'all and the real truth to be my wife in in solitary confinement and you living on the other side of of the world and willing to stick this out with me it's fight appreciate it Isabelle and I want to thank you for being so strong and for all the things that you do for the people around you I think you are an amazing man and I'm going make some girls jalous that's all I got to say and I love you [Applause] congratulations yeah happy ever Happy Ever After and then what happy after the same yeah I'm walking out with this hold on walking out with this happy ever after what going on I probably should have left this hat here I don't need no extra weit no that won't that won't be a problem bro that won't be a problem you're good right in D is The Testament of being able to overcome the harsh elements of the criminal justice system in America it's about how much fight you have in [Music] you when I regain my freedom I'm going to travel the world with Isabel I want to go to places like Peru to see the pyramids in Egypt the Grand Canyon that's what I want to [Music] do [Music] so the airport and the prison are over on the left all right so we got the bank all the way [Music] around [Music] all gentlemen as in prison putting it on your right side uh you can see these four units to the right one of them is actually where they house death row inmat when I was out on the yard every time I would see one of these planes coming over uhhuh uh I would always interrupt my uh thought I would uh say there go my ride there so uh they actually be up here in kind of lying over there and looking down on it's it's almost Indescribable really I can imagine brother I pleasure to be able to do this you you're in your ride [Music] [Music] now [Music] hello this is a free call from Kenneth GRE an innate at Verner unit hey today the judge ruled in my case wow and yeah uh well at this point really don't have a depth fin anymore however uh uh I did not get a new trial that is what I was hoping for uh you know not being able to get a new trial is me not coming home oh man this [ __ ] up for me to get a life without parole it makes it difficult on me because I was offered that sentence 24 years ago um when I went to trial and after 24 years of fighting I end up with that same sentence nonetheless I want to get out of prison this is what I say to you sister I intend to be in Switzerland at some point with you dipping this champagne bottle in the air pouring out a little liquor for the brothers back here on the road and say hey look at me now you know what the fight is now you need to buy your shirt that says free Kenny Rings you need to buy your shirt cuz we F to start the free Kenny Rings campaign yeah go for it all right I'm gone you're gone bye bye in just because you're from the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow just because you're in prison doesn't mean you can't go just because you're behind bars don't mean that you can't have dreams and goals and accomplish them this American justice system has given me lemons but I'm not going to cry I'mma take these lemons and make me some lemonade [Music] [Music] all right I'm Zone by [Music] ofwa [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Journeyman Pictures

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Length: 89min 35sec (5375 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 18 2024