Top 5 Youtube Channels / Prison Youtube Channels / After Prison Show / Lockdown 23&1 / Wes Watson

Top 5 Youtube Channels / Prison Youtube Channels / After Prison Show / Lockdown 23&1 / Wes Watson / End of Sentance / Life after the Penitentiary. This is a personal list of my top 5 Prison Youtube channels. After Prison Show https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSonmKTLAPC2bTCF4JHQ1lg Lockdown 23&1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPB2ZA4096SESz_VZVzHoA GP- Penitentiary Life Wes Watson https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWUxLYGeeIKxxioUqL54Q8g End Of Sentence https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiOTVzNRnFnQTz531DQP9Q Fresh Out- Life After The Penitentiary https://www.youtube.com/user/FreshOutSeries At the end of his seven-year sentence for cocaine and firearm possession in 2015, Joe Guerrero was 32 years old and directionless. The Virginia native had spent much of his adult life wrestling with the state’s criminal justice system, the result, he now says, of a drug addiction that began in his teens and led to years of robbery, partying and destructive behavior. Lacking a career or any professional credentials, suffering from anxiety that made it difficult to leave home, his relationship with his family on the verge of collapse, Guerrero feared he was destined to return to prison. As a last-ditch effort to prove, if only to himself, that he was trying to repair his life, the former inmate began documenting his struggle to reintegrate into society on YouTube. He filmed visits to temp agencies and posted videos discussing his frustrations with probation. When he needed a new discount wardrobe at Ross Dress for Less, Guerrero brought his camera with him. AD At first, nobody seemed to notice. And then, seven months after he started, Guerrero posted a video about how to make a prison tattoo gun. The clip went viral, eventually racking up 2.3 million views. Listen on Post Reports: Reporter Peter Holley talks to YouTuber Joe Guerrero about his channel the "After Prison Show" Three years and more than 700 videos later, what began as a series of grainy, amateurish vlogs has blossomed into a YouTube channel with 1.2 million subscribers called the “After Prison Show.” Guerrero’s channel now is his full-time job, netting him a six-figure income that allowed him to quit his most recent job as a laborer at a concrete factory. “Until now, my life had been a constant failure,” said Guerrero, whose social media experience before prison was limited to Myspace. “I told myself that if I’m going to make it this time or if I’m going to fail, I want to show people what it’s like. A lot of people have no idea what it’s like to serve time and then try and restart their life.” The “After Prison Show” is the flagship among the growing number of YouTube channels devoted to the gritty reality of life in prison. Their growing popularity has arrived at a time when prison figures prominently in the American psyche. With 698 Americans behind bars for every 100,000 residents, the United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation on earth, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit organization that studies the impact of mass criminalization. Combining state and federal prison populations, with jails, immigration detention centers and facilities holding juveniles, the organization claims there are about 2.3 million people confined nationwide. #AfterPrisonShow #Lockdown23&1 #WesWatson