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- {THE AND} – Johnny Perez & Khalil Cumberbatch
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- Khalil Cumberbatch
- Johnny Perez
- Videos
- The Day I Left Prison Was The Scariest | {THE AND} Johnny & Khalil (Part 1)
Channel:- TheSkinDeep
Published On:- 2017-December-13th
Added On:- 2021-September-2nd
Link - What Life Behind Bars Does To Young Men | {THE AND} Johnny & Khalil (Part 2)
Channel:- TheSkinDeep
Published On:- 2017-December-13th
Added On:- 2021-September-2nd
Link - Part Of The Problem, Or Part Of The Solution | {THE AND} Johnny & Khalil (Part 3)
Channel:- TheSkinDeep
Published On:- 2017-December-13th
Added On:- 2021-September-2nd
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- The Day I Left Prison Was The Scariest | {THE AND} Johnny & Khalil (Part 1)
- Participants
- The Redeemed
- Khalil Cumberbatch | The Redeemed
- Profile
- After a life of crime, Khalil was able to turn his life around and now helps improve the criminal justice system.
- Watch more uplifting stories of redemption with The Redeemed on A&E, exclusively on Facebook Watch!
- Here is the link to the series on Facebook
- Videos
- Khalil Cumberbatch | The Redeemed
Channel:- Facebook
Published On:- 2020-November-2nd
Added On:- 2021-September-2nd
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- Khalil Cumberbatch | The Redeemed
- Profile
- Khalil Cumberbatch | The Redeemed
- {THE AND} – Johnny Perez & Khalil Cumberbatch
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{THE AND} – Johnny Perez & Khalil Cumberbatch
What Life Behind Bars Does To Young Men | {THE AND} Johnny & Khalil (Part 2)
- Johnny Perez:- Daughter
- My daughter came to see me
- She had grown so much taller.
- I did not even know her
- She asked me
- Why are you in here?
- I said to her because I broke the law
- She quizzed more
- I replied
- Because of white privilege
- Because I already had a record
- Her response
- Why did you not just get a job
- You should have lived within your means
- Most vulnerably, you should have thought of me
- Johnny to Khalil:- What is the pain in me you will like to heal
- Daughter
- The pain you have in not being there for your daughter
- Me assuming there is still some pain there
- Father
- You not having a relationship with your Dad
- Not referring to a relationship with a father figure
- Daughter
The Redeemed
Khalil Cumberbatch | The Redeemed
- Prison
- OG
- OG Said to me “Please go back to school and give yourself an opportunity to put some good in the world and potentially take away some of the wrongs I had placed in it”
- Legacy
- When I left prison, my legacy was not something I was not proud of
- It was important for me to find something good
- Renewal
- AIDS
- I started a job as an AIDs patient advocate
- I worked with AIDs patients and their families
- AIDS
- Arrested for Immigration Violation
- Went back to school
- Was one week away from getting my graduate degree when my doorbell rang
- My wife opened the door
- And, it was the police
- They came to arrest me because of my armed robbery crime
- This was 10 years later
- But, because of the severity of the Armed Robbery crime
- Armed Robbery
- Top Tier targeted by Homeland Security for deportation proceedings
- Anxiety Attack
- Dragged me back into the system
- Spent 5 months back in Prison
- I told my wife I wanted to be sent back to my home country of Guyana
- I just wanted a way to get a little closer to my children
- Advocacy group
- My wife
- My co-workers
- They all got together and advocated on my behalf
- They asked a single question of the system
- How much punishment is really enough for an individual?
- Forgiveness
- Andrew Cuomo
- Fast forward two months later, I received a pardon from New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo
- Andrew Cuomo
- Tell My Story
- I decided to tell my story as a person who had survived two sides of imprisonment
- Violent Crime
- Immigration Hold
- I decided to tell my story as a person who had survived two sides of imprisonment
- Non-Profit
- New York is United for Justice
- Telling a story
- Damaging people as individuals and generations
- Asked one day what did we do?
- I fight like hell for a better society
- OG