DOJ-OGR-00004757.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE** **Document 300** **Filed 06/15/21** **Page 14 of 32** **L4TPDAYS** **1. Mr. Coates, but she read some books by Mr. Coates. She read a few books by Mr. Baldwin. So those are fantastic books to read. The fact that she's reading those books and participating in discussing the topics and the subject matters of those books means a lot.** **2. It can take weeks to talk about why, but those books and books like that, when you read them and you talk about them, you discuss them, it opens your mind up and it takes you away from the criminality and more to thought processing and understanding how life really works. So I thought those were very important.** **3. She also has significant community support. Her mother is in support of -- albeit, very ill, but still supportive. Her brother is, her aunts are, her uncle is. I believe some other people, maybe one or two, are on the line right now. But she does have that family support, and I think and I'm sure will assist her, when she gets released, to ensure that she doesn't come back to court.** **4. Finally, and this is most important -- not most important but very important to me. This Covid-19 lockdown, and she even participated in the other lockdown regarding a particular inmate. MCC, over the last 18, 19 months, have been nothing short of -- I mean, I'll say it on the record -- I think it's been inhumane.** **5. I don't think our society is being as just as it is.** **SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.** **(212) 805-0300** **DOJ-OGR-00004757**