Shaka Senghor served 19 years in prison for murder. Today he is a writer, entrepreneur, and resilience expert. His new book, "How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life's Hidden Prisons," will be out on September 9. www.shakasenghor.com Visit https://squarespace.com/ROGAN to save 10% off your first purchase of a website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
I was the third of my brothers to be shot.
I felt like I did something that was like you can't undo.
Going into the county jail was like you know it's going into a war zone.
The average reading grade in prison is about third grade.
Solitary confinement is the most barbaric thing that we do to people in this country.
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what's up pleasure to meet you such a pleasure to be here my yeah it's um I heard your story
why don't you tell everybody your story because the story is it's pretty wild yeah so I grew up
in Detroit working-class neighborhood dad was in the Air Force and worked for the state mom was a
homemaker so on the outside looking in it really looked like a household where the kids should make
it but unfortunately it's very abusive household and I ran away when I was about 13 years old and
at the time prior to that you know honor roll scholarship student dreams of being a doctor
artist I wanted to be a doctor because I felt like that was an occupation where I felt like you
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