Reginald Clytus

Reginald Clytus #485952
GBCI
PO Box 19033
Green Bay, WI 54307
My name is Reginald but everybody calls mr Reggie. I'm 20 years old. I'm Milwaukee, Wisconsin born and raised in the North Lawn housing projects in the north side I'm the youngest of three boys, well men now. I'm from single parent raised by my mother in a two bedroom unit. As you can probably imagine, I had a tough upbringing-gang, sex, drugs, violence, and crime- I seen it all . My mother tried her best to keep me and my brother out of the street life. But as it is well known, fast money, cars, and girls is always going to look better that the hard work. My mother was determined not to lets us fall through the cracks and become victims of the streets or "another number in the system " To make a long story short, both my older brothers have graduated high school, one is in college now and the other is managing a small business. As for me, I was a friend with the wrong people. My name come up in some investigation in some gang stuff that I am not even part of or know alot about, and as a result of that I got locked up my senior year of high school with 7 months left till graduation. Kind of funny when you think about it, huh? I been trying to build up my spirits and find my self since the day the handcuffs locked on my wrist. But I can't help but see the lost souls that are around me and the people that just gave up on their life. This is the hell I encounter on a day to day, basics: outside of small food portions, two showers a week, and the heating on here only 6 hours a day on segregation. This isn't for me- this life behind bars - never seeing family, never choosing when I want to eat or what I want to do with my days.
I tried out these so called jailhouse lawyers and was scammed out of my money. Turns out crime doesn't stop when you go to prison. I stayed to myself and have been trying to put legal cases and things together ever since and I'm not very good at it. I was forced into signing a statement, my rights were violated and I was railroaded every step of the way. The first so called lawyer never told me when I had a hearing coming up, never talked to my people about where I was at the time of the crime. He advised me not to testify on my behalf at the Miranda good child hearing because it would hurt me at trial. He did everything in his power to destroy me and I paid for him. I got on to what he was doing so I wrote the bar association and fired him. Well, the next lawyer took over my case and said she could get none of those hearings back and we would have to go to trial like that. A month later she came to me with a plea from the DA and said I was getting 10 years in prison and 5 years out. At first I didn't want to take the deal because I know you hear this alot but I didn't do it, I wasn't there. But she said because of the statement I can't get my hearing back I took the so called deal. That was anything but what I received- 25 years in prison and 20 years out under the truth in sentencing law. I didn't know about capped deals , appeals , motions, or anything like that . I don't know the justice system because I don't break the law.. Well, I speed and don't wear my seat belt all the time and have driven with a broken tail light. But come on, because of who I know and the side of the town I live on makes me another worthless kid from the ghetto. Not true.

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