Reason First: G-Dep Earns Associate Degree Behind the Wall

America is spoiled. On almost every level. The poorest kid kicking around Mississippi is immeasurably richer than an executive in Iran. The same goes for the prison system. It’s cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And of course, there is access to snacks, TV, weight rooms, yoga, dental, and mental health and overall well-being. Incarceration centers have become breeding camps for the best care that sometimes bests people at home.

Rapper G-Dep who is currently serving a 15 year sentence for a second degree murder conviction that he realized he had committed in 2010. It was a botched robbery which left a man dead in 1993 but Dep didn’t know until nearly two decades later.

Now, though, with his eyes set on a bachelor’s degree, the former Bad Boy MC is trying to get out of prison early. With the fact that he has achieved this academic feat, he can look forward to attaining that next level in his scholastic career.

At one point, getting out of prison seemed bleak. G-Dep sensed that it would be a long haul. Up to this juncture, he has seen his fortune turn in his favor as he prepares to petition for an early release.

With his talent and the new hardware that he just received, he has new opportunities to exit out of the penitentiary and become a rational, selfish member of society again.

While there are prisons around the world that whip on inmates and beat them down like dogs, for the most part, the United States is far more lenient than in other territories around the globe.

G-Dep earned a degree in liberal arts and plans to pursue a bachelor’s in business.

He’s taking it “day to day” because he’s been behind the wall for so long. In the time that he could possibly see freedom before the previously designated release date, he has improved himself and created a lane for him to possibly be set into liberty.

All of the time that he has spent in prison has allowed him to clear his mind and know that he is a man that has paid his debt and is ready to prove that he could be a model individual on the outside.

Only in America can someone be rehabilitated two to three times after being incarcerated. G-Dep has everything going for him in relation to his future. His whole entire career may be elevated within the timeframe that he clears those doors.

This country puts a premium on education and presents as many educated people as possible, even though it is third in the world in the most colleges and universities.

For the prison population, reputation, behavior, and credentials go into whether a prisoner can engage in the school system. From GEDs to doctorates, prisoners have the ability to raise their stations and continue on as if they weren’t convicted felons.

And that’s something to be made a point of as well. Some lifers still educate themselves. Why? Because they have nothing better to do? The reality of it is that inmates still can improve themselves if they’re not complete monsters. Drug dealers and prisoners who are like G-Dep who actually turned himself in once it dawned on him that he had committed the crime, his honor and honesty shines through and permits anyone to recognize that.

If he is able to take his business skills to the outside, he’ll consider all of the people that counter him out and say he’d rot behind bars. They granted him an associates degree. And now he’s capable of taking his know-how and apply it.