(14 Dec 2024)
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Minneapolis – 13 December 2024
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New Brighton, Minnesota – 13 December 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsie Lynn Becklin, University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Researcher:
"So really the impetus to getting into trouble was that I had become addicted to drugs. And so this crime was related to getting money – Drug money. I pled guilty to what’s known as misprision of a felony, which actually, in kind of English terms, means failure to inform the police the crime had occurred. So that was what I had pled to at the time."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsie Lynn Becklin, University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Researcher:
"About, I think a year after I was released from confinement, I was found out I was pregnant with my child. And there was really this, like, major ‘aha’ moment for me with my son. He was one (years old), and I was living at home with my parents. I had, like, no job, no education, you know, no future. Like I was, you know, I had a felony on my record. I had substance use history, you know, all these things. And he was one. And I just remember, like looking at him and realizing that his whole life was, like, really dependent on what I did with mine. And I think it was within a few days, or maybe even the next day; I was like, I went to the community college to sign up and decided that I would pursue school so that my son hopefully would have a future."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsie Lynn Becklin, University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Researcher:
"I had seen quite a few justice-impacted people getting PhDs in things like social work and kind of studying incarcerated issues. But finally, I actually ran across a guy named Stan Andrisse, who happens to be a professor out West, and he runs a program called – at the time it was Prison to PhD – P2P. It’s now known as Prison to Professionals. And so once I saw him and knew that he was a scientist similar to me and that he was just as impacted, I knew it was legal for me to apply."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsie Lynn Becklin, University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Researcher:
"Then I started volunteering. His program really takes justice-impacted people, whether they’re inside still or whether they’re on outside, and they just provide a mentorship platform. So they provide some education on how to apply to school. You know, getting through all those kinds of steps, how to pick a program, how to do all of that, and then the individuals get matched with a mentor and then a tutor. So, a tutor is traditionally a college kid who’s just looking to do something good. But mentors are other justice-impacted people who have pursued education, that can kind of help support and guide them through the unique issues that we face in higher education. And just kind of provide that community network that we need."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelsie Lynn Becklin, University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Researcher:
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Minneapolis – 13 December 2024
8. Wide University of Minnesota laboratory
STORYLINE:
There was roughly 1,540 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned by President Joe Biden on Thursday in what was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
She found out she was pregnant after she’d been out of custody for about a year. She said she had her “aha moment” when her son was 1 year old.
AP video shot by: Steve Karnowski
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