Otisville

I never- [laughs]

My boy Dante went to Rikers, and he did two years at Otisville, which is in, in, uh, upstate New York, and he was like-

What'd he do?

I don't know.

In other words, if you want to act like children, you want to laugh, you want to giggle, you want to be, you know, a little silly or whatever, we're going to treat you like kids.

At Otisville Prison in upstate New York, inmates with the Youth Assistance Program want them scared.

Because

once upon a time, we were you.

That's why we're here.

These inmates want the kids to know life behind bars is serious.

These knives were all confiscated from inmates at Otisville.

Deacon Eugene Borman runs the program.

91.1 MHz FM from a transmitter and radio tower in West Orange.

The station is also heard on 91.9 FM, and the Mount Hope transmitter in Otisville, New York, reaches the Catskills, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania on 90.1 MHz.

So what is a megahertz? The number of cycles, or times that a wave repeats in a second, is called frequency.

Frequency is measured in hertz, referring to the number of cycles per second.

There's two ways to look at it.

When I was in Otisville, I missed my family terribly.

I missed the ability to speak to my family.

You're only entitled to 100 hours a month.

I have 51 days left on this home confinement.

But while I was there in Otisville, I spent 51 days in solitary confinement.

And the conditions, clearly, that I was subjected to Despite the fact that they're abhorrent, broken window, flies in there, 100 degrees, no ventilation, right? The food was subpar garbage that you couldn't even eat.

The toilets were broken.