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Joe Rogan Experience: A Journey from Detroit's Streets to Solitary Confinement and Redemption

Published July 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:38:56

That's. That this. We're supposed to be the most advanced society that's ever existed, but yet we still. Which is crazy, right? We're. We're. The United States of America is supposed to be the most prosperous advanced society on earth and we have the highest level of prisoners. Yeah, we have more people in prison in the United States than any other country by a long shot. Absolutely. Absolutely. (1:38:56–1:39:06)

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“Detroit was the third wealthiest city in the world until they started moving jobs overseas.”
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“There's no rehabilitation.”
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“Guy who used to work for the Innocence Project. And I worked for the Ike Perlmutter center for Legal justice. And it's mostly dealing with…”
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“Dealing with corrupt DA's, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt everything. Corrupt cops. And people just get railroaded because they need to hang a…”
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“We probably have an appreciation of freedom that's just different from everybody else's.”
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“The system is just set up to punish. They're set up to just lock people up so they're off the streets so other people don't have to deal…”
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“They are going to get out, most of them, and they're not going to be rehabilitated.”
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“Oftentimes they're hardened and it's oftentimes even worse.”
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“There's so little effort put into how to fix things.”
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“What do you do that you can help these people contribute and you can have them come out of jail actually a better person.”
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“In a lot of the environments where these prisons are located, there's no other jobs.”
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“The fact that prison is an industry is also insane. The fact that privatized prisons are an industry.”
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“Private prisons are. They want more people in there because that's how they make money.”
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“It was our own government.”
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“Detroit goes from being one of the wealthiest cities in the world to one of the poorest cities in America.”
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“They didn't want to pay the union wages. They didn't want these factory workers making a great living.”
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“These same communities decade after decade after decade that are deeply impoverished and filled with crime.”
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“No course correction, nothing being done on a federal level to try to correct [deeply impoverished communities].”
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“We invest so much money into these non profits overseas and all these different things.”
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“California, there's a new fire. I don't know if they put it out yet. Laguna beach, did they put that fire out?”
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“You can't get fire insurance.”
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“I have friends who have houses now that they can't get insured for fire.”
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“It's hard to sell your house now if you're in an area like, I have a Friend who's trying to sell her house, but it's in an area that's too…”
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“Leaving these communities the way they are and not doing anything to try to fix them is, to me, it's the biggest failure of our government…”
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“How many of those guys could get out of jail and be excellent tattoos?”
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“Oftentimes people that aren't educated are some of the most incredibly talented people.”
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“I know people that are very successful that aren't gratitude. They don't have gratitude.”
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“I know so many people that are, like, very successful but very unhappy.”
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“There's a lot of people that just don't understand how to think. And that's something we don't teach people at a young age and how to think.”
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