What Arthur Williams Jr. has said about Federal prison incarceration

Williams says his father's wife acted as the confidential informant who led the Secret Service to him, and that she received a longer sentence than he did after pleading insanity.

“And then she was the confidential informant. But when she went to court, she pleaded insanity”

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Williams says his father died of a heart attack on the morning of the day he was released from his first federal sentence.

“the day I got out of prison, he died. No. Yeah, had a heart attack”

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Williams says he and his son were housed in the same prison dorm and that the two and a half years there taught him to be a father.

“And that's where I learned to become a dad, man. The next two and a half years, man”

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Williams says roughly 78 percent of people released from prison return, and that his own trajectory is unusual.

“sadly, almost 78% of people go back. Small percentage of us that make it out”

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