Ellis Jones

All the other kids are asleep.

I'm eating pizza and ice cream watching Chappelle's show or like late.

I think there were basketball like basketball finals or hockey or some shit going on at the time.

Like it was total coast of six months and I have to go live with my dad.

I didn't have to go back to the streets or anything like that.

Like.

And, uh, yeah, I got out two months after my 18th birthday and, uh,

This was always—there was actually a guard in JDC when I first got locked up.

He looked like Matt.

He looked like you.

Like, but he was like a Queens guy, like, talked like Queens, you know?

And I told him the story.

He's listening to me, and he's like—and then he just cracks up laughing.

He's like, you can't even make this shit up.

I'm telling you, I need to write a show.

He's like, I can make a sitcom about the shit that I hear in this place.

And I'm like, thanks, man.

Like there's nothing you can do about it for me.

You know, there was also a guard in, uh, in the bootcamp who I told him that story or no, he realized that I was like advanced.

A lot of these kids are like semi literate high school dropouts.