The Remarkable Story Of Sunny Jacobs — Transcript

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1. 0:00they sent me to the women's Maximum
2. 0:01Security Prison where I was put into in
3. 0:04a building completely isolated from the
4. 0:07rest of the prisoners no one was allowed
5. 0:09to speak to me I wasn't allowed to
6. 0:11associate with any other prisoners I
7. 0:13spent the next 5 years in solitary
8. 0:16confinement I only got out of my cell
9. 0:18twice a week for a shower then they
10. 0:20would take me outside for about 15
11. 0:21minutes in a courtyard with the guard
12. 0:24and then take me back in and put me in
13. 0:25my cell for another 3 or 4 days at first
14. 0:28I was confused on I was angry I was
15. 0:32frightened I was completely at a loss as
16. 0:35to what to do I was surrounded by people
17. 0:38who hated me and hate is a very strong
18. 0:43emotion I had never been hated before I
19. 0:46realized that if I stayed that way the
20. 0:48way they wanted me to be in fear and
21. 0:51anger and confusion a prisoner waiting
22. 0:54for them to decide to take my life that
23. 0:58I would be dead inside di before they
24. 1:01even killed me or figured out that they
25. 1:03made a mistake I had to do something to
26. 1:06get rid of the anger and the frustration
27. 1:09and the fear so I started doing yoga and
28. 1:11meditation and prayer it was that
29. 1:14Trinity that really saved my life for
30. 1:16some unknown reason this was part of my
31. 1:19journey if this was true for me then it
32. 1:21was also true for the guards and for the
33. 1:23prosecutor and for the judge who put me
34. 1:26there we're all Spirits here on our
35. 1:28journey and I would prefer my journey to
36. 1:31any one of theirs and so I learned
37. 1:34compassion if you'd asked me early on I
38. 1:37mean the whole thing was a tragedy for
39. 1:39me for my family as a result I found a
40. 1:44part of myself that I never knew existed
41. 1:46I learned more about freedom than I ever
42. 1:48knew before I connected with my
43. 1:50spiritual self I grew in a way that I
44. 1:53might never have grown I found
45. 1:55friendships that have lasted me the rest
46. 1:58of my life that are deeper than any
47. 2:00other friendship I could ever make and
48. 2:02then we're able to do this wonderful
49. 2:03work to help other people there's always
50. 2:05hope and you're the one who decides that
51. 2:09I chose hope and then everything changed
52. 2:13it went from dark to light and I've been
53. 2:15walking in the light ever since