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Ellis Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2759 total appearances

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Like, just fucked up all day.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And he's trying to play it off.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So I called him out on it one day.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And he's like, have you tried Jamaican ganja?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I'm like, no, obviously not.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I got kidnapped, brought here, and I've been behind a wall for a year.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So...

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

We somehow cooked up a scheme where there's only two sports that you could play.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Basketball and tennis.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Because this used to be a hotel.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And the Mormons bought it and turned it into this prison, put bars in the windows, and now it's a school.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So there were a couple of beat-up tennis rackets, and basically the white kids played tennis and the Spanish and black kids played basketball.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Not stereotypes.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

It was just they didn't even โ€“ when I went to go play basketball, they would throw the ball at my head, pretend they were passing it, throw it at my head to knock my glasses off because they just didn't want me out there.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So โ€“

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

What we did was we would knock the ball, the tennis ball, over the fence, and you got to take a staff member out there to go with you, and we'd blaze it up.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I got so stoned and so paranoid that I think I only did it maybe twice, and I just refused.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I could have smoked every day with this guard.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

It would have been no problem.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I was like, yeah, I can't be in this strict boarding school where I'm being looked over constantly, and I'm stoned to the bone because it's just powerful shit.