Oscar Castro
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So, I mean, they don't have nothing to go out to do.
All right.
You know, they have no future over there.
It's hard.
It's a lot harder to it's a lot harder to get out of prison over there and stay out than it is here in the States.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I mean, when I got here, man, I didn't have anything.
I had no clothes, no job, no car.
All I had was the help of my parents and my family and that moral support.
And I had the want and the will to make it and to come out and be something and not just go back to prison and be another statistic.
You know what I mean?
You've got to be close to eight years.
That's when I got out, seven years.
I did seven years.
And luckily, while I was in F-Wing, a new president took over.
His name was Rafael Correa.
And he signed a treaty saying that all foreign prisoners that have 50% of their time or more are getting deported.
So luckily I was, or unluckily, I had to do my seven years or whatever.
So I get deported, you know, thank God, and just made it back to the States, man, because of him.