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American Prisoner is a close-up look at one of America's largest drug dealers, and the way he was trapped for over a quarter of a century by his own government. The story reveals how a young black, collegiate football player, the eldest son of a poor, southern Baptist preacher gets entangled in the drug trade, rising to a major trafficker to losing everything. Thomas Ray Kennedy is hunted by the DEA and FBI, regarding his decade-long involvement in drug trafficking. Finally captured, he loses the battle at jury trial and the judge sentences him to life without the possibility of parole. With one stroke of the gavel, her decree was swift and final. Kennedy would never be a free man again. Unbelievable, considering he had never committed murder. Refusing to accept this "death by incarceration" sentence, he becomes a jailhouse lawyer and learns how to defeat this absurd imprisonment.During his journey, he realizes that he had been a prisoner long before the physical confinement - just as anyone, that's been trapped in an incorrect mindset. This discovery sets his mind free, and after twenty-five long, grinding years, he realizes his path from behind penitentiary walls. I realize I was an American prisoner long before I ever entered a penal institution. I had long since been imprisoned by the color of my skin, locked out of most legal opportunities that returned great windfalls. But instead of continuing to blame others for their backward thinking, the misunderstanding of their own imprisonment, I redirected my energy towards the positive things I could contribute in the creation of a better world.We are all American prisoners, sometimes by our own design but often by the design of others. Each person has the power to first recognize imprisonment - of whichever type - then realize freedom
