You did a smart thing starting a TH-cam channel. This is from a retired State of Ohio corrections officer, who worked 35 years in several state prisons. Many prison inmates talk about doing something productive with their lives when they get out. You actually did it. Congratulations!!!
I've got a 71-year old uncle up in Vacaville doing 25 to life. Went in back in '91. Every time he's up for a parole hearing he gets rejected. I'm thinking it's because he's old, my grands are gone, my mom and most of his other sibs are gone. He was never really close to his nieces or nephews so he's got nothing to parole too. He chooses to remain incarcerated and sabotages himself.
Big Herc , I work in a hospital that has a contract with the DOC. There’s nothing more sobering than an older convict who’s dying in prison. We also care for inmates who have been attacked by other inmates. You don’t see the realities of prison portrayed in rap songs or videos.
@@charlesvincent4127 I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight and the sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that but prison is no fairytale world
If you never do anything illegal, never go to prison, live a moral and righteous life, the world won't care about you either. Everyone has their own little sphere of friends, family and acquaintances. Anyone outside that sphere doesn't give a damn about you.
People need to understand that time is a non renewable resource. You don’t get it back. It’s the one resource that you lose continuously over time. Time is extremely precious, and these crash dummies squander it, foolishly and without thought.
my sister's serving hard time in Maryland. Right now, the cells are about 90 degrees and she's dreaming of air conditioning. These kids on the streets have no idea how poor the quality of life is inside
@moseskongi4746 u sound ignorant. Most people in prison aren't even bad people they just made a bad decision and got caught. But the conditions in their can turn u into a mentally ill animal if left their long enough. Un natural conditions can cause u 2 act out un naturally.
The guards and warden administration buildings have coldest AC ice cold but the dorms or pods the living areas of course do not have AC Texas prisons get so damn hot their tin buildings 55 grown men on top each other literally hell on earth last place you'd want to be Terrell Unit,Robinson,Ferguson,Darrington Walls @@Scott-xf5xb
Thank you Big Herc for keeping it real! When I was 33 years old, I was arrested for the first and only time, and that was enough for me! When I had my day in court, the judge dismissed all charges against me (based on a technicality). I took that to the bank. I have not been in trouble since. I am 53 now. The last thing I need now is trouble! I will walk away!
Love the channel...and as a CO...everything u speak of in this video is facts...can't count how many War stories I have heard...and unfortunately even hear when they get out, they going right back to the gang life, robberies, shootings...its kind of sad when u think about it...keep up the good work...Salute from NJ
5:00 - I have a friend who was found guilty of murder and he had JUST turned 21. Fight was over a woman, and my friend made a bad choice. He went in at 21, and he will be in his mid 40's or maybe early 50's by the time he is out. His entire life will be gone. No adventures as a young man, no career prospects, those are the best years. I think he'll be getting out soon and I don't think I'll reconnect. Anyway, yeah it sucks going in young because thats gonna be the only way to live that they know and your best years will be gone, and if you do behave once you get out you will have no financial opportunities
Part of my medical career was spent as a prison physician. I can tell you that this man here is telling the truth and nothing but the truth from A-Z. If you young and bangin and still have just one brain cell working in your head, you better be tuning it in on EVERYTHING he just said. Keep up this beautiful work Herc!👊🏽😎
Your life "time" is one of the most precious things you have. You go the wrong way, you not only hurt others but yourself and WHEN you get caught...not if, your life time is no longer your own and is lost..it can't be made back. Be a stronger person and live and build on the outside of a box and bars.
When I was young I knew one guy just out of high school a nice Jewish kid who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag got caught by Pennsylvania State troopers back in 74 with a large bag of weed. He wasn't selling he was just a weed head. Long story short he got busted, took a plea and did around two years but he came back horribly depressed and suicidal and killed himself less than six months later. Found out from his brother he was tossed around like a bag of candy with no need to say the details. Needless to say his misfortune was a lesson for many of his friends including me. After that anytime if anyone asked me to some dealing or try to goad me into a stupid fight I walked away.
Big Herc always speaks from the heart and damn I can sit and listen for hours!.. Too bad the lost souls are blind to the light that would lead them to something better than being in a pit.
Everything happening on the streets is just a show that's a re-run. And the problem is that these young dudes ain't been around long enough to have seen the show repeat itself. That's why the statement "You out of touch...you don't know how it is out here." is always the first thing out of their mouth when you try to school them.
This generation is different. There’s zero respect for the older generations anymore. Even in my day, the 90s, youngsters drew a line when it came to their elders. These days, they just knock them out for fun. It’s a problem.
My brother told me a story about prison commissary. My sister-in-law, my brothers wife, is named Hannah. Hannah's mother got a collect call one day from Davey. Davey used to date Hannah right around high school and maybe a year after but started associating with unsavory people so she ended it. Turns out that Davey went to prison for a string of auto thefts and armed robberies and was sentenced to 30 years. Now Davey is calling Hannah's mother because he lost touch with Hannah. Hannah's Mom explained that she's married, has been married for 10 years, has two kids and isn't interested in talking to Davey. Davey said he just needs her to put some money, for old times sake, on his account so he can get some ramen noodles and candy bars. Hannah was appalled that he would even call asking for something like that. I'm thinking that Davey was calling everyone he'd ever known even remotely in the hopes of getting cash. How pathetic and degrading is that?
An older and much wiser guy than me once wrote on a chalkboard {yeah, I'm that old}: young guys should listen to old guys, because old guys know stuff...
I am white and I was about 25 years old that black American kids get "the talk" about what to do when they get in contact with the police. I had that talk when I was around 8-9. Good to see that you are trying to help in keeping people out of there!
I was a guard in one of my state's level II for a couple of years. Level II is the lowest level could be in with an "all day sentence" there were a lot of 65+ year old inmates (maybe 15%) in level II.
I watch pretty much every video. I never did time, but I spent A LOT of years stuck in the ghetto. I know enough to know Big Herc is speaking the truth. Prison is somewhere you just don't want to go. I've seen the people who've been there. You don't want to be them. You don't want what happened to them to happen to you.
U telling the truth ive have a clean record listening to my oldest brother He been in state farm prison in gochland virginia for 5 Years in the 80S telling me stories he now 63 Retired from dominion power work there 32 years
I did county time. I met this one inmate who I could tell he was going to be a in and outer all of his life. He was talking about all the crimes he was going to commit when he got out. The man didn’t value his time.
I met that guy once, he had game over tattooed on his eyelids, and knew every jail and prison in California, where the CO's were easy, where the food was good, he was a fountain of useless knowledge. He inspired me to stop being a scum bag and turn my life around. That man kept me out of prison.
Facts, facts, facts Big Herc. I do a lot of mentoring. I’m also a football coach. I’m always talking this same shit you’re saying right now To these kids constantly!.
You are well spoken and intelligent. I like the way you speak and think. You're a big guy but not a bully. I would vote for you if you ran for office, councilman, etc. You could make a difference.
I did six months at the age of 39, I felt like the old man on the block back then. Didn't straight me out it took another twenty yrs but I managed to stay out of trouble.
Its like a lot of things in life, that way you thought was hard and tried to avoid turned out to be the easy way. And that easy way you take turns out to be really damn hard
I remember seeing a newer episode of Lockup/Lockdown and this older inmate in his 40's/50's who did things the old ways was faced with the reality those days are gone, it showed him doing his work duty and when the camera pulled away for dramatic effect it showed the next generations of these kids/punks making gang signs, being loud and flashy, making fools of themselves like they're preforming for the camera because they are, They're part of the Generation that's always Online and "Chasing Clout".
The streets are fucking stupid. I'm talking the police stopped me and questioned me because I'm facebook friends with a girl who's brother got kidnapped. Ive never even met they guy and I smoked a blunt with his sister once and added her on FB. That's it. It was so fucked. Literally even talking to people with family members in the streets can get you all cot up. frfr Go to College, play videogames, be a rapper or a become an athlete. Leave that street shit alone
I was a federal CO for several years. Inmates never bothered me. Fellow staff could be treacherous. I'm thankful to the inmates (convicts) who led me, steered me, and guided me along the way. They're not our friends, but some were trustworthy and outstanding.
Haven’t watched Big Herc in a long time, good to see he hasn’t changed, still talking sense.
I'm back too
@@bryanthompson12same
lol. Same.
USELESS N. THEY ARE THERE OWN OPPRESSOR NOW
same . herc is chill as , watching a guy like wes , fn stresses me out !!
You did a smart thing starting a TH-cam channel. This is from a retired State of Ohio corrections officer, who worked 35 years in several state prisons. Many prison inmates talk about doing something productive with their lives when they get out. You actually did it. Congratulations!!!
Cold reality is the majority who need to listen to this msg. Will only learn the hard way.
Sometimes i wonder if fate is just that
Or never learn. Choices though.
The type of guys willing to clap male booty cheeks and not say shit
I've got a 71-year old uncle up in Vacaville doing 25 to life. Went in back in '91. Every time he's up for a parole hearing he gets rejected. I'm thinking it's because he's old, my grands are gone, my mom and most of his other sibs are gone. He was never really close to his nieces or nephews so he's got nothing to parole too. He chooses to remain incarcerated and sabotages himself.
Big Herc ,
I work in a hospital that has a contract with the DOC. There’s nothing more sobering than an older convict who’s dying in prison. We also care for inmates who have been attacked by other inmates.
You don’t see the realities of prison portrayed in rap songs or videos.
If you ever get released you're gonna see that the rest of the world don't care about a old has-been ex-con. The world moved on without you
And most criminals can't comprehend that. They think they get respect for being locked up when they don't.
That sounds like a line out of The Shawshank Redemption.
@@charlesvincent4127 I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight and the sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that but prison is no fairytale world
Totally underrated comment
@@pontiacGXPfan
If you never do anything illegal, never go to prison, live a moral and righteous life, the world won't care about you either.
Everyone has their own little sphere of friends, family and acquaintances. Anyone outside that sphere doesn't give a damn about you.
People need to understand that time is a non renewable resource. You don’t get it back. It’s the one resource that you lose continuously over time. Time is extremely precious, and these crash dummies squander it, foolishly and without thought.
Thank you
my sister's serving hard time in Maryland. Right now, the cells are about 90 degrees and she's dreaming of air conditioning. These kids on the streets have no idea how poor the quality of life is inside
They don't have AC in the bighouse?
@@Scott-xf5xb *Da fuck wood they spend money to turn on air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter to keep a bunch of animals comfortable?*
@moseskongi4746 u sound ignorant. Most people in prison aren't even bad people they just made a bad decision and got caught. But the conditions in their can turn u into a mentally ill animal if left their long enough. Un natural conditions can cause u 2 act out un naturally.
@davidlinehat4657 because most of them never been anywhere
The guards and warden administration buildings have coldest AC ice cold but the dorms or pods the living areas of course do not have AC Texas prisons get so damn hot their tin buildings 55 grown men on top each other literally hell on earth last place you'd want to be Terrell Unit,Robinson,Ferguson,Darrington Walls @@Scott-xf5xb
Thank you Big Herc for keeping it real! When I was 33 years old, I was arrested for the first and only time, and that was enough for me! When I had my day in court, the judge dismissed all charges against me (based on a technicality). I took that to the bank. I have not been in trouble since. I am 53 now. The last thing I need now is trouble! I will walk away!
Dude your not even a street dude, you just got busted for a DUI
@@seansullivan7928what the hell does it matter?
Love the channel...and as a CO...everything u speak of in this video is facts...can't count how many War stories I have heard...and unfortunately even hear when they get out, they going right back to the gang life, robberies, shootings...its kind of sad when u think about it...keep up the good work...Salute from NJ
Dude you deserve way more props man 🙏
LIFE SENTENCE = ZERO HOPE = NOTHING TO LOSE.
This is why they give them the illusion of getting out someday.
One thing about the “FEDS” is they rarely lose, if ever.
Big Hurk you’re awesome you make so much sense. The culture is in need ,if only people would pay attention to you.
💯
I think TH-cam is bs'ing Herc with the Subscribercount too.
5:00 - I have a friend who was found guilty of murder and he had JUST turned 21. Fight was over a woman, and my friend made a bad choice. He went in at 21, and he will be in his mid 40's or maybe early 50's by the time he is out. His entire life will be gone. No adventures as a young man, no career prospects, those are the best years. I think he'll be getting out soon and I don't think I'll reconnect.
Anyway, yeah it sucks going in young because thats gonna be the only way to live that they know and your best years will be gone, and if you do behave once you get out you will have no financial opportunities
Part of my medical career was spent as a prison physician. I can tell you that this man here is telling the truth and nothing but the truth from A-Z. If you young and bangin and still have just one brain cell working in your head, you better be tuning it in on EVERYTHING he just said. Keep up this beautiful work Herc!👊🏽😎
Absolutely right on. Every young man needs to hear this all the best Herc.
Your life "time" is one of the most precious things you have. You go the wrong way, you not only hurt others but yourself and WHEN you get caught...not if, your life time is no longer your own and is lost..it can't be made back. Be a stronger person and live and build on the outside of a box and bars.
When I was young I knew one guy just out of high school a nice Jewish kid who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag got caught by Pennsylvania State troopers back in 74 with a large bag of weed. He wasn't selling he was just a weed head. Long story short he got busted, took a plea and did around two years but he came back horribly depressed and suicidal and killed himself less than six months later. Found out from his brother he was tossed around like a bag of candy with no need to say the details. Needless to say his misfortune was a lesson for many of his friends including me. After that anytime if anyone asked me to some dealing or try to goad me into a stupid fight I walked away.
He’s 100 percent right. I hope this makes somebody think twice before they do some stupid shit
Big Herc always speaks from the heart and damn I can sit and listen for hours!.. Too bad the lost souls are blind to the light that would lead them to something better than being in a pit.
Young Black Men need to see things. I know a lot of old Black Men sitting in prison. If you get out of prison cannot fit into life.
Yup, doesn't take long to get institutionalized.
Facts
If you're a lifer, you WILL be that old man on the tier
That’ll be depressing realizing your prime years will be behind bars stuck with a bunch of MEN and no Women around 😂😂😭😭💀
Unless you off yourself before then.
Not true my uncle has life and he isn't the oldest man in the teer
@@justinc4924 He will be at some point
@@ejd2901 no there r guys like 70 there he only 28
Everything happening on the streets is just a show that's a re-run. And the problem is that these young dudes ain't been around long enough to have seen the show repeat itself. That's why the statement "You out of touch...you don't know how it is out here." is always the first thing out of their mouth when you try to school them.
Big Herc prolly one of the realest ones out here.
One of the few AA that actually talks a lot of good sense, with a good heart. Respect my brother!
This generation is different. There’s zero respect for the older generations anymore. Even in my day, the 90s, youngsters drew a line when it came to their elders. These days, they just knock them out for fun. It’s a problem.
Another HOME RUN. You’re not pissin’ n the wind. SOMEONE DIDN’T TAKE THE WRONG ROAD BECAUSE OF YOU.
BRAVO, Big Dog.
Paradigm was the word you were looking for. Great video! Thanks for sharing.
My brother told me a story about prison commissary. My sister-in-law, my brothers wife, is named Hannah. Hannah's mother got a collect call one day from Davey. Davey used to date Hannah right around high school and maybe a year after but started associating with unsavory people so she ended it. Turns out that Davey went to prison for a string of auto thefts and armed robberies and was sentenced to 30 years. Now Davey is calling Hannah's mother because he lost touch with Hannah. Hannah's Mom explained that she's married, has been married for 10 years, has two kids and isn't interested in talking to Davey. Davey said he just needs her to put some money, for old times sake, on his account so he can get some ramen noodles and candy bars. Hannah was appalled that he would even call asking for something like that. I'm thinking that Davey was calling everyone he'd ever known even remotely in the hopes of getting cash.
How pathetic and degrading is that?
It’s a sad reality for a lot guys in prison that no one talks about
An older and much wiser guy than me once wrote on a chalkboard {yeah, I'm that old}: young guys should listen to old guys, because old guys know stuff...
Yeah I’m 28 and that why I listen to Herc💪🏾
@@zaytime4156Years ago, I used to hear people say, “Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time!”
Herc has a crib with a pool. 🔥
No wigs were split or cheeks were clapped in this episode.
Are you disappointed? LOL
Next episode
@@leerhode1021yes unfortunately
360 months. Let that sink in.
That’s a mortgage 🤣
crazy because big meech and T took that exact deal.😂
wow. that bees 30 yrs.
Keep spittin truth my friend- no worries about the haters , you're doing the right thing ✌️
I am white and I was about 25 years old that black American kids get "the talk" about what to do when they get in contact with the police. I had that talk when I was around 8-9.
Good to see that you are trying to help in keeping people out of there!
Hopefully he'll read this... hey Big Herc my bad I haven't subscribed after years of watching I feel guilty. Your message truly resonates. Ty
It's all good. Glad you're here.
I was a guard in one of my state's level II for a couple of years.
Level II is the lowest level could be in with an "all day sentence" there were a lot of 65+ year old inmates (maybe 15%) in level II.
I watch pretty much every video. I never did time, but I spent A LOT of years stuck in the ghetto. I know enough to know Big Herc is speaking the truth. Prison is somewhere you just don't want to go. I've seen the people who've been there. You don't want to be them. You don't want what happened to them to happen to you.
One of your best, Big Herc.
Thank you for this information Big Herc,you're speaking facts 💯
6:20 😂😂 I’m dying , The nerve of these 🥷🏾’s man
U telling the truth ive have a clean record listening to my oldest brother He been in state farm prison in gochland virginia for 5 Years in the 80S telling me stories he now 63 Retired from dominion power work there 32 years
I did county time. I met this one inmate who I could tell he was going to be a in and outer all of his life. He was talking about all the crimes he was going to commit when he got out. The man didn’t value his time.
I met that guy once, he had game over tattooed on his eyelids, and knew every jail and prison in California, where the CO's were easy, where the food was good, he was a fountain of useless knowledge. He inspired me to stop being a scum bag and turn my life around. That man kept me out of prison.
100% Facts, Big Herc!!💯😀🫶🏾💜🙏🏾✝️🇺🇸
Facts, facts, facts Big Herc. I do a lot of mentoring. I’m also a football coach. I’m always talking this same shit you’re saying right now To these kids constantly!.
…good spit..appreciate your channel…really touched on something…I have a friend that’s been in for 36+ years…good dude, long story…would like to share
Deep shit dawg, and maybe these young kings will listen and get the message before its too late.
Big Herc keeping it REAL & RAW! Thank you Big Herc! 💯👍
These YTers who did prison time heavily reinforce I do NOT want to end up in prison. These stories are like scary campfire tales.
Good work Big Herc. Keep it up
I saw it when I was at Jesup FCI.
I'm white and I watched the ignorant dudes plotting to do the same thing that got them there in the first place.
You are well spoken and intelligent. I like the way you speak and think. You're a big guy but not a bully. I would vote for you if you ran for office, councilman, etc. You could make a difference.
Herc, where's the link in the description, for the takeover at the cafe? I want to give, throw a few bucks towards the cause.
Big Herc keep doing what you do !
I did six months at the age of 39, I felt like the old man on the block back then. Didn't straight me out it took another twenty yrs but I managed to stay out of trouble.
Its like a lot of things in life, that way you thought was hard and tried to avoid turned out to be the easy way. And that easy way you take turns out to be really damn hard
Thank God for you!
Thank you big herc for all these videos and advice you give
I watch these to keep myself in check
Hey big herc you heard of the big bust in NYC of these drill gangs. Just like youve called it.
Keep it coming Big Herc
To me, if you’re pass 55 with no family to help you when you get out, you might as well stay in prison
I would rather be homeless in the streets then go back.
That was a good skateboard moves. What kind of wheels did you use SIMS snakes? Were those tracker trucks on your board ?
Hear you brother. God Bless✅️💯🖖
As always well said Herc.
Big herc has me crying “oooo youngster you have another one in you”. What an asinine comment
Salite Herc youre o e of the few who speaks truth. Respect 💯
Solid dude.
the streets for a player is the place to be
Entertainers cant talk about social events they would be shelved immediately best bet is what your doing on this channel keep up the good work.
9:07
It's by design, Big Herc.
Man You are a blessings.....keep it up
Big Hurk respect my man
Manchester uk 🇬🇧 England 🏴 showin the love ✌️
I remember seeing a newer episode
of Lockup/Lockdown and this older inmate in his 40's/50's who did things the old ways was faced with the reality those days are gone, it showed him doing his work duty and when the camera pulled away for dramatic effect it showed the next generations of these kids/punks making gang signs, being loud and flashy, making fools of themselves like they're preforming for the camera because they are, They're part of the Generation that's always Online and "Chasing Clout".
Yoo that pigeon in the background was cooking 😂😂
Channel BEYOND Awesome.
Preach it 🙌🙌
I worked in a state pen and was surprised at how many"OGs" were just as ignorant as the youngsters. It's too bad.
cool video, thanks man
A lot of wisdom on this channel
Big Herc speaking some truth on media and agenda, keep letting them know homie.🤔
No sympathy here Sir...Everyone makes their own choices. ESPECIALLY when you keep going back! No sleep lost here.
good persepective on 'your friends will be gone once out...' -J
I got some rich white kid perspective for prejudice etc....frat boy buys mba kinda stuff...
My older brother has about 7 years left on a 30 year bid. He’ll be 64 years old. My younger brother has 2x Life++ he just turned 38 this month.
The streets are fucking stupid. I'm talking the police stopped me and questioned me because I'm facebook friends with a girl who's brother got kidnapped. Ive never even met they guy and I smoked a blunt with his sister once and added her on FB. That's it.
It was so fucked. Literally even talking to people with family members in the streets can get you all cot up. frfr Go to College, play videogames, be a rapper or a become an athlete. Leave that street shit alone
I was a federal CO for several years. Inmates never bothered me. Fellow staff could be treacherous. I'm thankful to the inmates (convicts) who led me, steered me, and guided me along the way. They're not our friends, but some were trustworthy and outstanding.
Outstanding people don't end up in jail. Sounds like you got conned by the cons.
VERY """ INFORMATIVE """💥💥💥💥💯
Big Herc still busting checks
Ive seen some respected, but ive also seen some get really treated like trash. Kind of how you carry yourself.
More truth!
One hundred 💯, spot on , facts, etc etc , TY HERC cool man, lets go , f all them fools young and old lol
When i see a hardened muscular prisoner i domt think (thats a real man there) i think (he must of made some DUMB decisions)
Valid gems
Herc had to give up a raw one. Loved this.
REAL TALK
Respect.
Real talk, 100%.
U robbed a bank that’s gangsta. These boys would do well to listen to
Dopest channel on youtube.