Wayne Brewton-Bey: Supporting Survivors (Life After A Second Chance Series #4)

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In Episode 4 of the "Life After a Second Chance" series, learn about Wayne Brewton-Bey and his views on forgiveness and second chances.

Incarcerated for over 38 years, Wayne has dedicated his life to supporting survivors of crime. As a human service worker and prison reform community leader, Wayne is very open about how remorseful he is about the past, but is ensuring that he does all he can to be supportive of others who may have be survivors or people victimized by crime. He leads victim awareness programs in Baltimore that brings survivors and perpetrators together for mediation, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

When Wayne is not doing prevention and awareness work, he can be found spending time with a young boy by the name of Trui and a cat he rescued named Dylan. Recently, his organization celebrated 500 days without a homicide, and it’s this kind of reformation and community building that makes him proudest to do this work.

Hear directly from Wayne about supporting survivors in this episode of the Maryland Parole Partnership "Life After a Second Chance" series.

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Video by Nehemiah Bester. Portrait photos by Nicole McCann and other photos provided by Wayne Brewton-Bey.

TRANSCRIPT

00:05 – 00:06
Nehemiah Bester
Who is Wayne Brewton-Bey?

00:06 – 00:18
Wayne Brewton-Bey
Well, I’m an individual, who love helping people. I'm an individual who, want to see our people win.

00:21 – 00:34
Wayne Brewton-Bey
I’m an individual that is very compassionate, very understanding, very remorseful, and overall, just a good person.

00:37 – 00:38
Wayne Brewton-Bey
I was incarcerated for approximately 38 and a half years. The work that I do is human service. So, it's nothing more rewarding to provide individuals with the appropriate resources needed to help navigate their way through this madness out here.

00:56 – 01:12
Wayne Brewton-Bey
So, it’s not a job to me, it’s something that I welcome, I run to because it’s something that I enjoy doing. I do have a victim awareness program where I do bring victims and perpetrators together for healing, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

01:12 – 01:25
Wayne Brewton-Bey
We try to, not demonize the individual but, you know, show individuals true worth and stuff. You know what I mean? This is mighty work, but it is very rewarding though.

01:28 – 01:30
Nehemiah Bester
What does a day to day look like for you?

01:30 – 01:45
Wayne Brewton-Bey
Hang out with a little two-year-old little kid named Trui. So that's my little rock. Him and I just, chill and build, you know what I mean? That's my little boy.

01:48 – 01:50
Nehemiah Bester
What made you want to do this work?

01:50 – 02:22
Wayne Brewton-Bey
Well, I'm proud to say that we are going on over 500 days without a homicide. So that's something to be very proud of. When I was away, man the only thing I ever prayed for was my freedom coming home and helping my people.