Clip: Season 12 Episode 4 | 54s | Video has closed captioning.
Stevie Walker-Webb, who lived in a community-built prison cell for 24 hours as a representation of solitary confinement, shares his hopes and fears for incarcerated people with mental illness like his brother. Waday Walker has stayed in solitary for 122 days after being arrested during a mental health crisis.
Aired: 04/18/24
Stevie Walker-Webb: I'm only suffering for one day.
My brother's been suffering for I think the most difficult part is this right here, to be honest Is having set somewhere to represent my brother, to represent hundreds of thousands of folks who are incarcerated wrongfully, and to like, feel a kind of a fear, a cynicism, that this will be a moment that and that no legislative action will be taken.
This is something that affects people of all races, of all sexual orientations, of all genders, of all socioeconomic levels.
I feel a deep responsibility to make sure that this moment do and that we all don't just look as something that's sensationali That's the hardest thing, is to feel like nothing's gonna
