right now. The Isaiah factor
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And as usual, thank you guys for
staying up late with us here on
The Factor Uncensored. The
prison system in Kentucky is in
the middle of a major scandal.
The probe by a newspaper has
revealed more than two dozen
employees were caught having sex
with inmates over a 16 month
period. Two of those workers in
trouble are behind me on the
screen Trista Fox and Amanda
Coca. Earlier this month, coca,
who is in on the right, was
charged with third degree. She
allegedly had been getting it on
with an inmate half her age.
Fox, on the left, was charged
December of 2022 after another
officer claims to have found her
sexing an inmate. Overall, the
investigation found. Take a look
at this five nine cases of
worker inmate sexual offenses in
five years. This is, of course,
is a reminder that inmates are
not able to consent to sex even
if they say it. It doesn't
matter. My next guest say
they're glad to see the covers
being blown off. These kinds of
crimes. Our guest two here on
The Factor Uncensored. Glad to
see you both. You guys know what
it's like to be incarcerated and
to see this free for all going
about the problems that we have
seen in this article, and is it
disturbing to you? Marci, let's
begin with you. It's not
disturbing thing. It's
disturbing that this kind of
thing is just now coming out.
And I'm happy to see it in the
public's eye. The more people
that are talking about it and
bringing an awareness to this
type of thing is just a good
thing. To help resolve it.
Right. And when you spent your
time behind bars, did you see
anything like this? Did you
witness anything like this?
Absolutely I was obviously
housed on a female unit, so it
was a different kind of, uh,
violence than I think men see on
their units. But absolutely
inappropriate relations with
officers. Officers bringing in
contraband, um, absolutely
sexual harassment and any time
an officer that's in power has a
relationship with someone with
no power, zero power. That's
time. All right, Khalil, your
thoughts and what you have seen
behind bars. Thank you very
much. Um, I think the big
underlying issue here just like
what Marci is saying, is this
systemic in the prison system as
whole of correctional officers
taking advantage of inmates,
whether being male or female, I
mean, even in a federal prison
last year in Dublin, California,
where they, uh, called it rape
club or even the warden himself
was sentenced due to rape and
sexual abuse. Uh, when we
understand that these
correctional officers are taking
vulnerability in that position,
in regards to bringing in
contraband for making money on
the side or even for sexual
abuse. At the same time, we need
instances where there are some
consensual, even though legally
you cannot consent to these type
of matters. But overall, though,
in the prison system there are
correctional officers even
acting like criminals themselves
and what you have described,
Khalil, is something that since
systemic. And do you think it's
where wardens or, uh, deputy
wardens may be aware of what's
going on and they just turn a
blind eye and say, that's just
the way things work? Yeah And
and this is a whole cover up
upon a cover up. These aren't
just single issues. It might
start with a ward and or a
captain or lieutenant overseeing
this and maybe looking the other
and these individuals are not
calling it out and stopping it
becomes this systemic thing. It
becomes like a cancer and it
grows. And what have, if
anything, did you see when you
were there? Khalil. Yeah I mean,
there were a few instances, uh,
I mean, those instances where I
was at, though, they were
consensual. Um fortunately, they
legally, they cannot consent to
that. Uh, but you hear stories
all the time from federal
prisons that there are, uh,
systemic abuses and even
bringing in contraband of this
nature. And do you guys think it
should be consensual? I mean,
even though it's not forced. But
you said, Marcy, if you have
consensual. It would be rape or
it. Explain that to us. Well,
absolutely. If someone
approaches me, um, and for a an
intimate relationship or a
relationship outside of prison,
guard and prison, uh, offender.
Right. Prison inmate. Then I
feel obligated because because
that person has complete control
over my life. That officer can
say one lie that will take my
freedom from me. My possibility
at parole, and even get me free
world charges. So absolutely,
it's intimidating. And as a
woman, navigating that can be
really tricky. You have to learn
how to not make eye contact, how
to avoid, how to not go into
private places with those
officer. Does that make you feel
uncomfortable? So how do you
guys for, uh, what do you think
can be done by behind bars to
address this problem, these
decades, hundreds of years now
behind bars is there anything
that can be done? It's going to
require huge oversight. And that
calls an overhaul for the
uh, whether they're unions or
their institutions, uh, it needs
to for them to hold each other
accountable and create even
maybe legislation for that to
create some type of deterrence
for these correctional officers.
legislation, without an overhaul
, I believe this is going to
continue to grow. And, Marci, do
you agree legislation would take
an oversight? That's what it
would take to get this under
control. Absolutely. And in
addition to just a change in the
prison culture, when we start
looking at incarcerated
population as people that have
made some choices or, or went
down a wrong path and ended up
then that's when we're going to
start to see change. All right.
Well, we want to thank you both
for joining us here on The
Factor Uncensored. We value your