The convicted double killer Erik Menendez, younger than Menendez brothers, ran into “mistreatment and trauma” he saw for almost three decades in the California prison system in a rare interview with “2 furious man podcast. “
“My prison was difficult,” Menendez told the hosts, TMZ in Harvey Levin and his lawyer, Mark Geragos, talking about his prison in the past time. “I faced a lot of harassment and trauma – it was a dangerous environment.”
Menendez and his brother, Joseph “Lyle” Mengnez, both are held in California’s Richard J. Donovan California Institution on life’s penalties without the possibility of probation, but according to the new Golden State Act, they could see their penalties reduce the following hearing The moon and in the end they achieve freedom.
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Lyle Menendez, left, and his brother Erik imagined in their latest CDCR Mugshots, recorded on October 10, 2024. (California Department for Repair and Rehabilitation)
“I was, violent, violently, and it was traumatic,” he said, noting that such treatment was common for many prisoners who were not involved in prison gangs.
“Prison can be difficult, and there is a lot of suffering in prison,” he said.
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Menendez, who, together with his brother, was convicted of in 1989. the murders of the shotgun He has been praised by their parents for his good behavior in the last three decades behind bars. He said he did his best to avoid returning or hiring aggressive prisoners.
“I was separated from Lyle and I remember the day I told me that Lyle had just been attacked and broke his jaw … I think he is there, I go through this here and at least we could protect everyone else, maybe if we were together.
The undisputed photo of the Menendez family appears on the screen, during the panel at Crimecon 2024 in Nashville in Tennessee, on Sunday, June 2, 2024, the brothers Lyle and Erik were convicted of chatting both of their parents in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
The brothers, who were doomed to life without conditional freedom in 1996, were finally transferred to the same facility in 2018.
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The conditions have improved over time, he added.
“I believe that [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] He does my best and I want to work with them. I know Lyle is, which really changes that culture today, “he said.” But 25 years ago, it was even a dark, more dangerous place. “
Menendez brothers, Erik, left, and Lyle on the stairs of Beverly Hills in November 1989. (Ronald L. Sobble/Los Angeles Times)
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Lyle Menendez, in the same episode of Podcasta, discussed his involvement in the Green Space prison project, which he said would continue to return to work if approved.
They exhausted all potential complaints in 2005, Geragos said earlier, and as long as the new California law entered into force, they had not hoped that they would ever achieve freedom, but continued to show good behavior and retain trouble behind bars.
The brothers are scheduled for hearing to replace the 20th and 21st March in Los Angeles. The hearing has been postponed repeatedly, first after a former Los Angeles State Attorney in Los Angeles lost their release to a re -election campaign, and again After the fire Tore through La.
“My brother and I hopefully hopefully,” said Lyle Menendez Levin at the end of the episode. “We are in prayer with our family and hopefully and just try not to go crazy in the meantime.”
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Erik Menendez (C) and his brother Lyle (L) were shown on August 12, 1991 in Beverly Hills. They were convicted of the murder of their parents, Jose and Mary Louise Menendez of Beverly Hills, California. (Mike Nelson/AFP via Getty Images)
The brothers have a separate request for Habeas by passing the courts, which could also result in their freedom, claiming that new evidence increases their claim of self -defense.
August 20, 1989 attracted behind their parents, Jose Menendez and Mary “Kitty” Menendez, from the rifles and killed them in his living room Beverly Hills. The brothers claimed that they did so in self -defense, claiming that their father would kill them when they threatened to expose him as a abuser of children.
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Although about two ten relatives have forgiven them and publicly support their release, their mother’s brother is vehemently opposed and previously said Fox News Digital through his lawyers to believe he is a motive for greed.
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After killing their parents, the brothers went for a $ 700,000 consumption that included luxury cars, Rolex watches and even a restaurant.
