Love our 24/7 women’s basketball coverage? Join our Patreon now and support this work, while getting extra goodies and subscriber-only content for yourself. She hopes to continue her work during her time in Connecticut and hopes that her former teammates continue what she started in Phoenix. Maybe just one person just going, taking that step forward to understand it,” she said. “That was the most, you know, touching experience for me because I’m like, this is what we needed. She didn’t tell any of her teammates where she was going on that particular appearance, but afterward many of them wanted to go with her the next time she visited. She emphasized that these conditions weren’t even in a prison, but rather in a jail, one in Phoenix.īonner said that the first step to learning is to experience something for a couple of hours, exactly what she did when she visited Estrella Jail. She also said that there were women laying on the floor or in chairs. Among the topics discussed were the sleeping conditions.īonner made a special note that the jail she visited had dorm-like sleeping quarters with three women per bunk and the top tiers of the bunks were close to the ceiling. J7:40 am Former NBA star turned Miami Heat assistant coach Caron Butler is opening up about a dark chapter in his life amid the push for criminal justice reform. Caron Butler can easily point to the lowest moment in his life the days he spent as a teenager locked in a solitary confinement cell inside a. One topic that came up during the roundtable was the conditions in prisons and jails that lead to the incarcerated populations being more at risk for contracting COVID-19. “They didn’t get the chance to nurture them, you know, sometimes it’s just, you know, no offense to you guys but baby needs Mom, it’s just something that is just, you know, the nurturing the care and the softer side of it so it was just pretty sad to see,” Bonner said. Caron Butler can easily point to the lowest moment in his life - the days he spent as a teenager locked in a solitary confinement cell inside a juvenile prison. She noted that many of the women she spoke to only got to hold their newborn for 48 hours before they were taken away. Caron Butler knows what it’s like to be incarcerated, having spent 18 months in prison prior to his UConn days and NBA career. “These moms didn’t get the opportunity to even, you know, do that, they didn’t get the opportunity to you know be better for their kids,” she said. Overall, she said that she just wanted to be able to give these women a second opportunity.īonner felt emotionally bonded to these women because she knows how much having a child changes your life. Anything I can do is, that’s what I wanted to do so.” She later added, “I talked with my director to see how can I get these women jobs and we got with a whole group of teams and you know trying to see any kind of way that we can get some job interviews, programs that they can go to, little things like you know haircuts.
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They didn’t know how to the next page or housing, they were worried about getting jobs,” Bonner said. “They were talking about how you know when they get out, they needed help to the next step.
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Sell crack while in the 5th grade, be addicted to Mountain Dew, and make a difference in the lives of thousands of kids with Caron Butler!! This is is wild tale, and we can't believe how it ends! He ran the streets, sold drugs, carried a gun, and was arrested more than 10 times, even being sent to prison at 15! Somehow, through all of that, he made a successful, and very lucrative NBA career happen. From extremely humble beginnings, he was selling both newspapers, and cocaine by age 11. This week, we track a story that has been a long time, in the making, and has aq little bit different ending than we're used to.
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