Amika Mota
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So she had taken my sidecar's towel from the shared showers.
And so, yeah, my sidecar flipped out and started cussing out this old woman.
Throwing punches in the day room was like the worst place you could fight because you're basically in front of the cop shop.
Some cop came to the door and basically was like, roll it up.
I was classified as a failure to program.
And I ended up being, you know, put in isolation.
We had a date on the calendar when they were coming.
It was like, you know, every call, I get to see you, Mama.
You know, I get to see you in a few weeks.
I asked the sergeant, please let me call my kids or my papa.
I had to call papa and tell him that I couldn't visit them.
I mean, there became a point when I realized...
that being the type of mom I wanted to be to my kids from the inside was impossible.
And now I had taken someone's life.