Clarence and Kevin have the honor of sitting down with Annette Price:

Annette Price was raised in a small town in Indiana and the last child of a single mother who had ten children. Annett is the mother of two children and has three grandchildren. At the age of 20, she was convicted for Murder and sentenced to 75 years in prison. Her sentence was reduced to 40 years and she served 20 years. While incarcerated, she obtained several degrees and earned master’s in Professional Counseling and Substance Abuse Counseling after incarceration.

Today, Annette is the Co- Executive Director of Grassroots Leadership and member of Texas Advocates for Justice.  She served a fellowship term with Austin/Travis County Reentry Roundtable. As part of her fellowship, she participated in writing a Housing Guide for Apartment Managers, which was released in April 2018. She facilitated a class called “Jail 2 Community” Reentry Program at Del Valle Correctional Complex.  She is the founder of Annette’s Behind Me: Transitional Living a non profit Transitional home for women returning to the community for prison in Austin, Texas.

Content discussed:

• Grassroots Leadership
• Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons
• Voting rights for prisoners in Maine and Vermont
• The loophole in the 13th Amendment
• Kalief Browder
• Slavery by Another Name (the phenomena of mass incarceration)
• Incarceration statistics
• 'The New Jim Crow'
• Likelihood of going to prison
• How race impacts pre-trial detainment
• Why do inmates return to prison?
• Racism in everyday  life , Racism in everyday life link 2
• Post - incarceration syndrome
• Prisoners fighting wild fires
• Unpaid labor in Texas prisons
• Barriers in loans for POC