Tay joins us as he grants us a Bird's-eye view of what it's like being incarcerated at 18. Wise beyond his years, Tay shares some of the psychological hurdles one meets behind the wall.

Prison-ish

He asked for a different angle, different perception, a different perspective, they told him to look up... Ask n you shall receive 'birds eye view'

Street Dreams

Time is a hell of a concept. Perspective is everything.

Prison-ish (Steph)

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In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

TED

In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved group, whose liberty in the United States was never firmly established to begin with," Western says.

The Atlantic