This is why on the job training and companies participating in second chance employment for non-violent offenders is so important and should be apart of ex-offender rehabilitation.
YOU MIGHT ASWELL GO ON AND SAY IT! AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK MEN! THESE WHITE MEN AND WHITE WEMAN WHO ARE RACIST AND IN POWER DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH TOSSIN BLACK MEN IN THE MEAT GRINDER
@andrem4877 when it comes to damage. Both historically and to this present day NO RACE has done more damage than your evil, wicked, sadistic, savage, barbaric Jim Crow descendants. You "Seeds of Satan" and the rest of your despicable ilk created the blue print for the Amerikkka we have today. Since Amerikkka was founded on institutional racism and White domestic terrorism. The system is working exactly as it was designed.
She really is. We love her. She used to be on tv and I watch her. They took it off. Stories like this are a bit too real for the major networks. These are the things they don’t want us to see. We pray for Lisa
Nicks wife or girlfriend is a nice person, stable, beautiful with gentle kids, she works and keeps those kids well, love how they calmly all sat at the table to have a meal, I wish you guys the best❤
Just what I was thinking. It broke my heart watching him fill out 3 job applications a day and getting nowhere. So demoralising and he seems like a nice guy who just made some bad choices.
I've been to prison 5 times last stretch was 10 years. I've been out now for 25 years and married for 24 and almost own my own house. State took me away from my parents at age 16 If I can do it, so can they!
The older nephew is intimidated by his uncle, and he looks just like him. I bet they're going to develop a beautiful bond. He'll be working out with his uncle. 😊
Yeah, that's the same thing I was thinking and they're practically twins they look so much alike. Hanging with his ole UNC will be good for both of them. God bless them and keep them together as a loving family
I remember one of the young prisoners being interviewed about the (his) future and hope. The kid answer was, "Our generation died when our parents were born." His answer, for some reason, stuck with me for a long time.
Lisa is made for this job. She is such a natural at making people feel comfortable. She is empathetic and kind and it doesn’t feel like an act in anyway. I love watching her interviews ❤
These guys need more than a job. They need to be born again in the name of Jesus. I knew several people who had good jobs , but they sold drugs on the side. There are some that can be the president of the United States and still be a crook. A job does not make you a good person. Obeying the word of God made me better.
The family has to give him time to process from a world of incarceration to the free world, He has to build up trust for the family its not easy, But Royal will make it!!
It's mostly definitely a process I stayed in the house my first two weeks home maybe a little longer than that and still to this day I don't like crowds my head is always on a swivel if you get too close to me I will back away I don't like anyone standing behind me or moving to fast around me
Love your kids and their future first!!! Nick can only say 10 times in, but wasnt sure about that, he will go back and she needs to move on without him and prison influence on her children.
Aww, praying for him. The brother and sister thing is one of the things thar plaque young men when they went in young. Its so many emotions and things they had to do to survive. He has great perspective on being reborn. Go forward Royal!😊❤
Honestly this mama is the kind that needs to take social services … her 16 hour work days away from these boys is only going to produce more prisoners … sad. Poor lady
She should have left that guy alone. He has no job skills and he seems like he is foolish. The only thing he knows how to do is to commit crimes. He just got out of jail and he is going to get her pregnant again. Then she will have to work 3 jobs because he is going back to prison most likely.
Not true my mom or dad have been to jail or even pulled over by the police nor have their parents but I have been to prison my sons are 19 and 21 and have yet been in any kind of trouble it's all on the individual
America could choose to learn from Norway about what they are doing differently to achieve the lowest recidivism rate in the whole world. They have made prison a rehabilitation system where they exercise humane treatment and programs to skill the inmates for re-entry back to society
That’s not our desire as a country our desire is to continue to enslave we think that black people are the only ones affected by a country built on slavery it’s literally the core value system here
I agree, America could very well choose to do better by its citizens in these cases, but purposely choose not to, because we reside in a terribly divided and broken society that does not believe in true justice and equality for all.
@@SJW8788 Nick doesn't want it bad enough. Look at his track record. Royal already has it planned and doing something he excels at and it won't matter about his criminal record.
When I got released from prison New Freedom, a program based on reentry, rehabilitation and job training was AMAZING!!! In Arizona convicts helping convicts is the only way.
My son has been to prison since he was 16 years old first time was a dwi and no driver license then the rest of the rest are from driving on suspended or revoked and he's 44 years old. He tried getting jobs and once he said he had been incarcerated they would turn him down. He would lie on the application and as soon as they check and find out that he was incarcerated they would said that they were not hiring anymore. The government needs to open some factories for the guys that get out of prison that would be better for them. Instead the government spends money on global warming and other things that doesn't help anyone. It's sad situation
Jail is big business. The system promotes recidivism. They exclude x jail people from jobs so they can lock them up again. I think the system makes $60,000 a year for each prisoner. Many face permanent homelessness and poverty. Legal self employment. Like dog grooming, barber, clean up , car washer and detailer......
He would make a great personal trainer. He can communicate really well. He can motivate people. I hope that edge he has from prison can drop and he can be more open with his clients. It will take time and patience. It must be hard being in a constant state and struggle for survival and then have to leave it behind because people who haven’t been through it can get defensive, back off and not understand. He would be a great personal trainer with a range of people. From the young guys who want to be fit for sport or competition to people who may need workouts in the park or at home. He has an unusual experience and was able to get fit and strong. If a client said I can’t because of money he could use his experience to work around it for them or to motivate them that you don’t have to have the most expensive gym equipment or gym.
It really doesn't people are going to be who they are regardless of how they are raised we got paster and people with power committing crimes just like other people and most of them grew up in two parents homes have never lived or witnessed poverty
The children arnt getting raised by their mothers either and they’re working 16 hours a day. How does mum get better at parenting if she’s hardly ever doing it.
Her childern seem very mannered, also I noticed they sat at the table together for dinner. Alot of women spend more time with there childern but, no one could tell. I think she's doing the best with what she's working with. At least she's trying to work and not waiting on a hand out.
It’s broken my heart I really feel sorry for black men’s I’m a black women it’s really sad . I hope the next world will not be like this. it’s like being a black is been cast. 😭😭😭
it would have been good for Lisa Lang, to have went to finland and some parts of Europe where residinism, is not at high rate people rarely go back, because their system is ran differently, that would have been a better way of looking at this problem
@@happylifegrace4674 if more funding was offered for rehabilitation programs, especially for the youth and drug addicted persons, there is a much higher chance of them being reintegrated into society. Many women also are in prison for relational situations, that can be addressed with domestic violence counseling. Those with mental health issues need therapy and medication, not lengthy incarceration. Isolation, violence and exposure actually make mental health worse. Rehabilitation programs should have components of education, training, therapy and family involvement.. Right now people are just being warehoused and enslaved with no real intent for long term reintroduction into society. Its destroying people, dismantling families and robbing societies of potential. There is a place for incaceration for safety purposes, but doubt its being used properly. Question is whether there is real motivation for change
They won’t because of the countries racism they want minorities to fail and stay in prison keeps everything moving and government makes money. It’s just a different form of slavery everything can be fixed but no one cares.. it’s a sad world we live in
I'm sure there have been things or a person that you've been sick of and still put up with it. People always has something to say. You're not innocent of making the same mistakes.
First of all, my mother was a single parent of 4 kids 3 girls and 1 boy none of us went to prison despite living in poverty. These guys made the choice to do the crime stop using excuses!
Everyone's situation is not the same did your mom have a job some of these guys and girls are helping pay Bills because their moms are single parents and weren't as responsible as your mom was so they have to take up the slack when it's winter and there no heat in the house what are you going to do or you come home from school and there's no lights on no hot water to shower some people ask for help and rely on others and some people are going to make it happen im glad you're family didn't go through any of this peace and love
Lisa: If society keeps slamming doors in their faces Me: Right. Everyone deserves a 2nd chance, but this system in America is designed for prisoners to reoffend. This is so wrong!!
This is why on the job training and companies participating in second chance employment for non-violent offenders is so important and should be apart of ex-offender rehabilitation.
YOU MIGHT ASWELL GO ON AND SAY IT! AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK MEN! THESE WHITE MEN AND WHITE WEMAN WHO ARE RACIST AND IN POWER DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH TOSSIN BLACK MEN IN THE MEAT GRINDER
Reparations over everything
@@reparationsovereverythingalready paid for with all the damage y'all cause to society 😂😂
@andrem4877 when it comes to damage. Both historically and to this present day NO RACE has done more damage than your evil, wicked, sadistic, savage, barbaric Jim Crow descendants. You "Seeds of Satan" and the rest of your despicable ilk created the blue print for the Amerikkka we have today. Since Amerikkka was founded on institutional racism and White domestic terrorism. The system is working exactly as it was designed.
Why spend the time money and risk when there are lots of non convicted people looking for work?
Job creation and support group is a critical component of rehabilitation.
Absolutely 😞
Job creation is highly unlikely since unskilled labor is being filled with illegal immigrants.
When little Nicholas said that his dad
was at the mall, I teared up a bit. 🥺💔
Lisa Ling really is brilliant at what she does.
She really is. We love her. She used to be on tv and I watch her. They took it off. Stories like this are a bit too real for the major networks. These are the things they don’t want us to see. We pray for Lisa
😊😊o tree rtr@@mrsonpoint
A lie will put a black 🖤 man in jail quick
@@mrsonpointI'm surprised it's even on this channel bc most Oprah fans don't care about real stories and hard truths
🤦🏽So brilliant that she asks how he knows how to use the Internet and computer with no job skills...
Who actually learns that AT WORK 😒
Nicks wife or girlfriend is a nice person, stable, beautiful with gentle kids, she works and keeps those kids well, love how they calmly all sat at the table to have a meal, I wish you guys the best❤
awesome story on both of these men! I really hope the best for them.
If Royal started a workout RUclips channel he would be what a lot of people are looking for, like myself so inspiring to watch his story❤
GREAT IDEA!
Just what I was thinking. It broke my heart watching him fill out 3 job applications a day and getting nowhere. So demoralising and he seems like a nice guy who just made some bad choices.
He gave me an idea w the basketball. Lol he's creative.
This was a great documentary ...
One day at a time ... one dat at a time
Thank you 🙏🏿
I've been to prison 5 times last stretch was 10 years. I've been out now for 25 years and married for 24 and almost own my own house. State took me away from my parents at age 16
If I can do it, so can they!
What stuck for you to stay out?
That’s awesome!!🙏🏽
Everyone is given different tools in this system. We all just do the best we can.
Happy for you bro 💪
@@tonnieverse4038 You got to want it bad enough, that's the ONLY difference
Depending on the nature of the offense you can pursue an expungement. People should check their state laws.
Not drugs with the intent to sell
The older nephew is intimidated by his uncle, and he looks just like him. I bet they're going to develop a beautiful bond. He'll be working out with his uncle. 😊
Yeah, that's the same thing I was thinking and they're practically twins they look so much alike. Hanging with his ole UNC will be good for both of them. God bless them and keep them together as a loving family
Transition center helped me out a lot .I thank God for all the chances.Been home over 5 years,with remodeling business.
I hope Lisa Ling continues making more of these documentaries.
I would love to watch an update on this documentary!
The little boys are adorable. Pray their future will be brighter and have good education
Life is not fair😢 It's so sad. It doesn't matter who's to blame. It could have been me it could have been you ...
Yep..Ecc the 9 chapter says it all...
That’s true! We all have made stupid mistakes!
I remember one of the young prisoners being interviewed about the (his) future and hope. The kid answer was,
"Our generation died when our parents were born."
His answer, for some reason, stuck with me for a long time.
i knew it was a reason i liked lisa lang, she’s always down to listen to everyday people. No matter where they are in the world.
This is soo hard to watch.
its really sad
I don't think I can. It is too damn sad.
Why? U acting like this new
Self employ, make up ur own service, prove ur loyalty to ur own changes❤
great guy seems like a great family. Hope he can do well in the outside world . best of luck!! :)
To Carlise, I pray you protect your ❤and family and move forward without Nick.
I really admire Carl. Smart man. I hope Royal makes it out in the world. Love and Prayers to you Royal. ❤❤❤
Lisa is made for this job. She is such a natural at making people feel comfortable. She is empathetic and kind and it doesn’t feel like an act in anyway. I love watching her interviews ❤
Lisa Ling i love you..Thank you for sharing meaningful inspirational stories. Your story telling is admirable...❤
They need jobs . It’s a vicious circle
These guys need more than a job. They need to be born again in the name of Jesus. I knew several people who had good jobs , but they sold drugs on the side. There are some that can be the president of the United States and still be a crook. A job does not make you a good person. Obeying the word of God made me better.
theres jobs. they just lazy and rather go for the quick money. quit making excuses.
The family has to give him time to process from a world of incarceration to the free world, He has to build up trust for the family its not easy, But Royal will make it!!
It's mostly definitely a process I stayed in the house my first two weeks home maybe a little longer than that and still to this day I don't like crowds my head is always on a swivel if you get too close to me I will back away I don't like anyone standing behind me or moving to fast around me
Hope to get an update soon
Smh....this country...May the most High Yah deliver His people out of this land..and free my ppl...
Best of luck to both of you !! You can do it one day at a time 💪🏽
This was so moving the cycle is real😢!!!I'm praying for u guys
My son has spent years in and out of prison he can never accumulate when he’s out and always goes back in…
Acclimate?
I praying and have faith for your young men.
Amazingly brilliant amd inspiring 🎉🎉🎉 thank you for bringing this to light!!
Wow I was just thinking personal training.
This is so heartbreaking. 😢
But she keeps having kids, not able to provide for the ones that she already has.
@34 minute mark, everyone is not an open book let people take time to open up.
Sister Lisa Ling is doing a tremendous job in what she is doing we loves ❤️ 😍 her❤❤
Love your kids and their future first!!! Nick can only say 10 times in, but wasnt sure about that, he will go back and she needs to move on without him and prison influence on her children.
He had a year there and they couldn't let him have a trade because his time wasn't long enough? Are you serious!!! This is why they come back!!
To the gentleman that just got out for serving a decade in prison his family have to give him time enough to process before he could really open up.
I’d take a chance on Royal. People need to give him a chance. He’d be great Personal Trainer. Stay the course, Royal.
Amazing work Lisa& OWN! Please create ‘interactive journalism’ and support these men with formal statements of support in their journeys.
Gosh I wish we could get updates!!
Great show, thank you! PS: Dark is not ugly, racist language helps to perpetuate subconscious biases and bullying.
How can they not offer courses for rehabilitation before they leave I don't understand?
For me, I run alone, I live alone, I fight alone and die alone. That is the life fate has chosen for me 😢
Aww, praying for him. The brother and sister thing is one of the things thar plaque young men when they went in young. Its so many emotions and things they had to do to survive. He has great perspective on being reborn. Go forward Royal!😊❤
this is amazing journalism for its time and even now. I love lIsa ling
Honestly this mama is the kind that needs to take social services … her 16 hour work days away from these boys is only going to produce more prisoners … sad. Poor lady
Carlas is a rockstar mom! What a warrior.
She's repeating the cycle just by having kids with that man
She should have left that guy alone. He has no job skills and he seems like he is foolish. The only thing he knows how to do is to commit crimes. He just got out of jail and he is going to get her pregnant again. Then she will have to work 3 jobs because he is going back to prison most likely.
Not true my mom or dad have been to jail or even pulled over by the police nor have their parents but I have been to prison my sons are 19 and 21 and have yet been in any kind of trouble it's all on the individual
@@bos-G-state7359 then I'm not talking to you
The babies are so cute!
He is going through PTSD you have to give him time to decompress
I wish Royal and Nick the BEST😊
America could choose to learn from Norway about what they are doing differently to achieve the lowest recidivism rate in the whole world. They have made prison a rehabilitation system where they exercise humane treatment and programs to skill the inmates for re-entry back to society
I know right
That’s not our desire as a country our desire is to continue to enslave we think that black people are the only ones affected by a country built on slavery it’s literally the core value system here
I agree, America could very well choose to do better by its citizens in these cases, but purposely choose not to, because we reside in a terribly divided and broken society that does not believe in true justice and equality for all.
@@terrwall2467 This is heart breaking
I’ve always said this needs to be implemented in every judicial system.
To be honest growing up by poor families is like why would you have children and you know your broke
I don't think Nick will make it, but I think Royal will!
Damn
I was thinking the same thing when Nick started saying what he might have to do to make money. He hasn't changed his mindset.
@@SJW8788 Nick doesn't want it bad enough. Look at his track record. Royal already has it planned and doing something he excels at and it won't matter about his criminal record.
@@rememberselfcare 💯 you gotta want to change
When I got released from prison New Freedom, a program based on reentry, rehabilitation and job training was AMAZING!!! In Arizona convicts helping convicts is the only way.
My son has been to prison since he was 16 years old first time was a dwi and no driver license then the rest of the rest are from driving on suspended or revoked and he's 44 years old. He tried getting jobs and once he said he had been incarcerated they would turn him down. He would lie on the application and as soon as they check and find out that he was incarcerated they would said that they were not hiring anymore. The government needs to open some factories for the guys that get out of prison that would be better for them. Instead the government spends money on global warming and other things that doesn't help anyone. It's sad situation
Jail is big business. The system promotes recidivism. They exclude x jail people from jobs so they can lock them up again. I think the system makes $60,000 a year for each prisoner. Many face permanent homelessness and poverty. Legal self employment. Like dog grooming, barber, clean up , car washer and detailer......
Anyone have any updates on Royal and Nick? I would love to hear about how they are doing
Royal should be a personal trainer
He would make a great personal trainer. He can communicate really well. He can motivate people. I hope that edge he has from prison can drop and he can be more open with his clients. It will take time and patience. It must be hard being in a constant state and struggle for survival and then have to leave it behind because people who haven’t been through it can get defensive, back off and not understand. He would be a great personal trainer with a range of people. From the young guys who want to be fit for sport or competition to people who may need workouts in the park or at home. He has an unusual experience and was able to get fit and strong. If a client said I can’t because of money he could use his experience to work around it for them or to motivate them that you don’t have to have the most expensive gym equipment or gym.
You do know this doc is 13yrs old
@@erinsmith5837 ok and my point still stands? Tf? 😂
IT start in the HOME period. 😮😢
It really doesn't people are going to be who they are regardless of how they are raised we got paster and people with power committing crimes just like other people and most of them grew up in two parents homes have never lived or witnessed poverty
Generational trauma.
always looking for an excuse. GROW UP AND BECOME REPSONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS. STOP HAVING HORDES OF FATHERLESS BABIES.
Yes.
@@rowyourboat5361 and now it has transferred over to the white culture.
People don't understand that
The children arnt getting raised by their mothers either and they’re working 16 hours a day. How does mum get better at parenting if she’s hardly ever doing it.
Her childern seem very mannered, also I noticed they sat at the table together for dinner. Alot of women spend more time with there childern but, no one could tell. I think she's doing the best with what she's working with. At least she's trying to work and not waiting on a hand out.
I support this content
My mother worked at night all my life and we lived in low income housing again stop making excuses!
It's deeper than making excuses.
*Tina, get a clue*
Please
Nick's wife sounds like a good woman. I pray her hard work pays off for her and her boys.
Wonder why Royal is holding his feelings?
🙏🏾 for all.
It’s broken my heart I really feel sorry for black men’s I’m a black women it’s really sad . I hope the next world will not be like this. it’s like being a black is been cast. 😭😭😭
U r awesome reporting about u r fan
He needs to be delivered, he is dealing with Demons 😈 people, GOD can save him and only GOD 🙏.he needs to be delivered 🙏. Baptized .
Can the men leaving prison be connected with organizations that can help then with starting a business and creating a new lifestyle.
Why do you think so many African American men are in jail? It is because the system is unjust and is designed for them to fail.
I also think it’s poverty and the breakdown of the family. Too many absent fathers with mothers having to work two jobs.
❤ Lisa Ling is awesome
How can she work 16 hours a day 6 days a week and raise two boys? Someone else is with the kids MOST if not all of the time.
I wondered that as well - who is watching her children 16 hours a day? So very tragic
How can we send nicks baby mom money and help? I wish I could move her and those boys in with me. They’re so cute! She’s doing a great job!
She has her own place!
This doc is 13 years old
Abuse and brutality towards black men is unacceptable and tragic. This must change. USA is a horrific country. I'm ashamed of my country.
it would have been good for Lisa Lang, to have went to finland and some parts of Europe where residinism, is not at high rate people rarely go back, because their system is ran differently, that would have been a better way of looking at this problem
The show is called Our America 🤷🏾♀️
I can supply an excuse for any behaviour. Giving a true reason, not so easy.
Monetize rehabilitation centers and schools, not prisons... things will change
good conversation starter. I'd love more elaboration to figure out a plan of steps to start movement
@@happylifegrace4674 if more funding was offered for rehabilitation programs, especially for the youth and drug addicted persons, there is a much higher chance of them being reintegrated into society. Many women also are in prison for relational situations, that can be addressed with domestic violence counseling. Those with mental health issues need therapy and medication, not lengthy incarceration. Isolation, violence and exposure actually make mental health worse. Rehabilitation programs should have components of education, training, therapy and family involvement.. Right now people are just being warehoused and enslaved with no real intent for long term reintroduction into society. Its destroying people, dismantling families and robbing societies of potential. There is a place for incaceration for safety purposes, but doubt its being used properly. Question is whether there is real motivation for change
They won’t because of the countries racism they want minorities to fail and stay in prison keeps everything moving and government makes money. It’s just a different form of slavery everything can be fixed but no one cares.. it’s a sad world we live in
He needs to stay away from them because they're not gonna do him any good.This is gonna break him down.
She’s sick of it yet she continues to breed with him
Animals breed humans procreate.
I'm sure there have been things or a person that you've been sick of and still put up with it. People always has something to say. You're not innocent of making the same mistakes.
@@Kattkiteyez Incorrect. I have never bred with a loser over and over again like this fool, so, no...I have NOT made the same mistakes
Yep and planned parenthood is everywhere and FREE, birth control
Karl is great. That's so important, a strong male good example. Show them a better way.
Did both men and their families survive?
How did Nick’s court date go?
Hope Nick gets himself together for real. It’s possible.
First of all, my mother was a single parent of 4 kids 3 girls and 1 boy none of us went to prison despite living in poverty. These guys made the choice to do the crime stop using excuses!
Good your life was great but some choices come from survival mode
Good 4 u I’m glad u was able to make it out.
That's your story. We all have a story to tell. You don't know what people have been through.
@@kimhick972 I am below poverty income and I would never steal or sell drugs to get ahead. It is a choice.
Everyone's situation is not the same did your mom have a job some of these guys and girls are helping pay Bills because their moms are single parents and weren't as responsible as your mom was so they have to take up the slack when it's winter and there no heat in the house what are you going to do or you come home from school and there's no lights on no hot water to shower some people ask for help and rely on others and some people are going to make it happen im glad you're family didn't go through any of this peace and love
Roy running hard in them high tops😂😂
American can help you go far or it can take you darker places you got have faith while being black human being
The only thing about working out is gets old to get tired.
Driving by these Yards with fenced in Grass, and a hose w water nearby, get some Seeds and use ur Yards!!!j.c.!!!
For those who value their freedom it’s an easy decision- obey the law. It isn’t hard at all.
Lisa: If society keeps slamming doors in their faces
Me: Right. Everyone deserves a 2nd chance, but this system in America is designed for prisoners to reoffend. This is so wrong!!
The nephew looks like his uncle 😊
Great story ✊🏾 all facts
Church
Yes!!!!!
Such a shame