Folsom State Prison

tunnel of darkness, which they're like coming in and out of.

And I live two miles away from Folsom prison.

Oh, wow.

So I have a lot of dark energy right by me.

I'm just in awe because this is blowing my mind.

Talk about an intense case study.

The portal underneath the trampoline and you being two miles away from Folsom Prison is just mind-blowing because as you were talking about it, I was like, where's this dark energy? Where would it be coming from? What makes...

her property her family so special to attract all these different sort of entities and stuff like that right not just the ghost but the poltergeist and like all these other entities and i'm not gonna blame it all on the prison but right i feel like the connection between the proximity of the prison and where you guys were living plus the sensitivity the gift that you all have of again, I don't want to give you titles if you don't accept them, but some sort of mediumship, being able to sense and feel the other side, it just, it seems like it just all coalesced together.

I'm Alex Bell.

Over the past three years I have sat down with inmates and prison staff inside San Quentin, Folsom and Solano state prisons to see what's changed.

Tonight we break down the biggest issues facing California's prison system and ask both candidates for governor what they would do if elected.

Roughly 30,000 people leave California prisons each year.

They weren't on Skid Row or any of the Hepatitis Hotels and Vaughn wasn't white.

So Vaughn goes to court and he is tried for the attacks on William and Kenneth and the judge gave him 32 years to life and they shipped his ass off to Folsom Prison.

Okay, so they've got Vaughn in the box for breaking in and fucking somebody up, but that ain't no killing charges, nay? What's the fuck up with that? Well, here's what things get interesting for Vaughn.

The police do some super-duper go-go-gadget-go-detective work, and the next thing you know, they done linked Vaughn to all them damn murders from Skid Row and Hollywood.

Record long as your arm.

Graduate from Folsom.

Some of them never learn.

How about the number two man? Don't know.

What was that name again, the ex-con? Ernest Morgan.

Your L.A. number, 178435.

Folsom numbers, 12968.

Reason I got pepped on is the thief could have hurt his leg jumping out of the back window of the bar.

And then you ended up getting kind of close to them in a career or in a journalistic sense, right? You did a pretty important story about them.

You know, in 2018, I was invited by the band to go with them to Folsom Prison in Northern California.

And it was a combination of things.

They were marking the 50-year anniversary of a very famous Johnny Cash record that he recorded at Folsom Prison.

And it was right about the same time where they were marking 50 years of being in a band.

So I was able to go with them into maximum security prison for a day and spend some time with them in a very famous chapel that was part of the Johnny Cash song.

You know the fellow that drives for him? Eric? Mm-hmm.

Well, he was released from Folsom and Leggett's custody when he was 18 years old.

Murdered his father.

Nice

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San Quentin or Folsom Prison? [laughs]

I'm, I'm, uh, I'm still not, I'm still looking for one.

[laughs]

Yeah.

You've a huge back catalog to dip into.

Of course, you, uh, y- no show, uh, would be complete without, uh, playing, uh, the hits Ring of Fire, Hurt, and so on, um, Folsom Prison Blues.

But-