A claim of Corizon is they bring together a wealth of expertise, the latest in methodology and technology. All aimed toward providing the best-in-class service to state and local governments throughout the nation. As a man who speaks with guards and inmates alike from facilities Corizon is contracted with, most of the people I interviewed asked me to please look into the healthcare at their facility.

There is a big difference when a person with my experience inspects, interviews and reports on prison healthcare. Being an outsider I could report the truth without fear of retribution. As part of Corizon’s mission, They claim to have developed an extensive system of performance and accountability measures. These indicators allow them to better understand and improve upon the effectiveness of their healthcare processes.

If that is true, and lets give them the benefit of the doubt and say it is, why haven’t they called me yet? If CEO Rich Hallworth is serious about accountability, I am hear and willing to consult for them.

Better healthcare for inmates saves YOU the taxpayer a lot of money. When an inmate gets out of prison and has medical issues that could have been taken care and wasn’t, it cost YOU. I understand the inmate mentality and what is important. I also understand business. I could help Corizon’s bottom line, moral, and the inmates. Everyone would win.

My goal is to help a part of society that most people forget about.

Larry Lawton, Founder and President of Lawton911 and the Reality Check Program DVD.

Going out to dinner with Angelo and hearing the stories was amazing, but what was even better was his compassion and love for people. I gave Angelo a real nice bottle of wine when he opened his gym in Hollywood, Florida and he not only never forget that, he never forgot me when I went away to prison for making some bad choices.

Angelo always asked Mark how I was doing and he wanted to see me. I am upset with myself for not making more time to go see old friends when I got out of prison. It is a great lesson to be learned. Life waits for no one and God is the ultimate referee.

My prayers and thoughts are with Angelo’s family and friends. He touched many people in ways that can’t be described and I was only one of them.

Thank you Angelo for making me a better person.

God Bless

Larry Lawton

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom (one male and one female) will host on any given day. Lee Webb serves as the CBN News anchorman.

The show will be about redemption and Mr. Lawton has appeared on the Huckabee show (watch the segment here), the Healing Today show seen on CTN (Christian Television Network) (watch the segment here) and numerous other TV and radio shows.

Mr. Lawton wants to show people that change is possible and people do change. “God has missions for all of us, you just have to recognize it and accept it. The saddest part of life would be going through the motions without having a purpose. Love what you do, work hard and everything will work out” said Lawton.

During the interview with Mr. Lawton, you can see he gets frustrated with people who don’t want to help the youth. He truly cares. He understands politics very well and we spoke for hours on his views of the upcoming presidential race, local politics, and future of the country. It was nice talking to a man who is very passionate, optimistic and never gives up. More on my interview with Larry Lawton in future posts.

Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is the new vice president of sales for Lawton911. With seven years of corporate sales experience and a passion for helping teens and young adults, Chris is a natural fit for a growing company with worldwide aspirations.

The key is, is your son mature enough to understand the full consequences of his actions? Every child is different. We know the male brain doesn’t fully developed till around 24 or 25 and the female brain doesn’t develop till around 22 or 23.

With that said, I always advise parents to get the DVD and watch it themselves. Only you can determine if your son should see the DVD. Maybe you only want him to see part of the DVD. The DVD will help you and give you information you can use to communicate better with your son.

I am sending you a complimentary DVD, but for anyone else, use promo code LARRY and get $10 off the DVD. Good luck and never stop being pro-active.

Sincerely,

Larry Lawton

To learn how to get the Reality Check Youth Program in your area, click here

The event is open to the public for youth between the ages of 11 and 17. The two hour program is part of the grant program given to the Reality Check Foundation by the city of Palm Bay CDBG (Community Development Block Grant)

Mr. Lawton speaks nationally and was just informed that the 700 Club, a christian based TV show on CBN (Christian Broadcast Network) will be coming to Brevard county on February 8th to interview Mr. Lawton.

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom (one male and one female) will host on any given day. Lee Webb serves as the CBN News anchorman.

To read more about the 700 Club, click here

Newt Gingrich lost any hope of winning Florida by aligning himself with the worst politician in state history. Bill McCollum.

Former Congressman and Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum was, and is, nothing but the biggest insider and political hack this state has ever seen. He doesn’t care about the people, he cares about his political position. I saw that first hand. As a Congressman in central Florida he refused to answer letters from his own constituents, friends and family of mine, because it didn’t serve his interest.

The republican party needs to wake-up. As an independent, I support a man who has good ideas, a man who is willing to change with the times because we all do, has morals and good judgment. For Newt to have McCollum head up his Florida operation is a sign of poor judgment. Newt should have looked up McCollum’s poor standing in Florida. All he had to do was see how McCollum did against Governor Rick Scott.

Judgment is what the presidency is all about and Newt failed. Go Mitt Romney, and that is from a man who follows politics, been to Washington and works with governments all over the country.

I stay out of politics for the most part but seeing Bill McCollum’s face on TV next to a possible presidential nominee is scary. What position would President Gingrich give Bill McCollum? That was enough to make me write this blog.

Lawton911 and the Reality Check Program DVD deal with people and agencies who want to help young people. We care about the young people and the future of this country. As I tell my students, “The company you keep tells me a lot about who you are”.

God Bless this country and all the citizens in it.

Larry Lawton

Sometimes you have to rattle the cage to get some answers. If they want to play politics, I can do that to.  I get asked all the time, what is the problem with the youth of today? We read in the papers and see on TV all the negative things our young people do. Yes, some of it is true and we as a society should be looking for answers and ways to change the serious negative trend we are on. HOW DO WE DO THAT?

Schools administrators and boards need to be more pro-active with understanding the youth as they have the best platform to help kids. The problem with school officials is they feel that if they ask for help with teen issues they will be perceived as not doing their jobs. Not doing your job is ignoring the serious problems we have.

I am sick and tired of hearing how well the Brevard county school system is doing. BULLSHIT…. The Brevard county school system is failing miserably when it comes to leaving a certain portion of our youth behind.

If you aren’t an athlete, a straight A student and come from a low income neighborhood, you are left behind. I am called daily by teachers, principals and parents asking me to come in to their school because it is so bad. Heritage High in Palm Bay is overrun with drugs, assaults, gangs and kids are dropping out and not wanting to go there. I here that from the kids themselves.

I have a program with independent quantified data with the success of helping our youth make better choices and one school board member told me they don’t have time in the day for my program, that every minute is account for. What issue is more important than our youth doing something that will land them in jail or dead? Are they waiting for another Columbine?

I have been quiet about a lot of things in the county for too long. It is time to open some eyes. Please go to my http://www.facebook.com/RealityCheckProgram and Like the page. Tell your friends and help me change a broken system. If the way the Brevard public school system is the future of the space coast, we have a lot of problems.

Larry Lawton

To learn more about what I do, go to Lawton911

Scared Straight – We Need the Reality Check Program DVD in the Brevard Public School system

How Ex-Con Larry Lawton’s Life Has Inspired

Thousands of Kids to Stay Out of Prison

A Goodfella Becomes a Good Guy

How America’s most notorious jewel thief got rich,

got caught, and got his life back on track

By

Larry Lawton,

Founder of Lawton911 and the Reality Check Program

and

Peter Golenbock,

7 Time NY Times Bestselling Author

C2012

Gangster Redemption – Table of Content

Chapter 1  Who Wants to F*ck Miss Armellino…..3

Chapter 2   Earner for the Mob……25

Chapter 3   Loyalty………………….48

Chapter 4   The Daytona $800,000……….58

Chapter 5   Diamonds Are a Guy’s Best Friend…..79

Chapter 6   The Single Life……..94

Chapter 7   The Last Heist……119

Chapter 8   Journey to Atlanta…….132

Chapter 9   The Worst of the Worst…..145

Chapter 10   An Atmosphere of Violence….16

Chapter 11   Coleman and Jesup………..185

Chapter 12   The Abu Gahrib of America……..198

Chapter 13   Yazoo and Forest City………..219

Chapter 14   Free At Last………….231

Chapter 15   The Beginning of the Realty Check Program…..246

Chapter 16   The Realty Check Program Takes Off…..258

Chapter 17   Spreading the Word…..273

Chapter 18   The Reality Check Program…….289

Chapter 19   It Works……..311

Afterward

Chapter 1

Who Wants To F*ck Miss Armellino

From his jail cell in the hole, he could hear the tier door open.   The sound of footsteps was getting louder.

They’re coming for me, he thought.

“Cuff up, Lawton, he was ordered.

He knew better.

“What did I do?” Lawton wanted to know.

The four huge guards the size of gorillas opened his cell door and charged at him.   They jumped him and beat him.  His face bled.  His body hurt.  They didn’t care.

After they beat him they carried him out of the cell, put him in a room, stripped him naked, and strapped him down in a four-point position so he was spread-eagled.  They cuffed each leg and arm to a post.

His eyes, half-closed from the beating, saw the hulking figure of one of the guards standing over him.   He could see the guard unzip his fly.   He took out his penis, and he let loose a stream of urine that splashed against Lawton’s face.

As the guard was peeing, he said tauntingly, “Lawton, you keep writing senators.  You think you’re going anywhere?”

Lawton closed his eyes, and he could taste the salty urine running down his face.  One of the guards then spat out a large gob of spittle on him as he walked past.

“You think you’re bad, Lawton,” said one of the guards.  “Keep writing senators.”

Strapped down, immobile, naked, and covered with pee, he was left there alone with his thoughts for more than three and a half hours.

This may well have been the lowest point in Larry Lawton’s life.

At one time he had been tight with the Gambino mob.  He had been a big earner for the mob, stealing over $15 million in jewels in a string of jewelry store robberies.  His take was millions of dollars.  He lived like a king.

I was a millionaire, thought Lawton.   I owned a limo, horses, homes, expensive cars.

Once he had a family, a beautiful wife and two beautiful children.   He had lost it all.

Woozy from the beating, strapped naked to a steel bed frame, the smell of urine in his nostrils, he thought to himself, How did I end up like this?

*

When Larry Lawton was growing up, he lived at 3255 Hatting Place in the Bronx in the shadow of the Throgs Neck Bridge.  From the back of his modest two-story bungalow home he could see the trucks and cars going over the bridge toward Queens, and he could hear the horns and the sounds of the traffic.

His Locust Point neighborhood was Irish, German, and Italian.  It was a neighborhood with its fair share of bookies and gangsters, but it was also a place where if you were a kid the old ladies would watch out for you.  If you did something wrong on the block, your mother somehow would find out about it.

It was also a place where strangers weren’t tolerated and blacks and Puerto Ricans could get hurt.

“You couldn’t come into our neighborhood,” said Lawton.  “This was the Seventies.  If somebody we didn’t know came down to the jetties to go fishing under the Throgs Neck bridge, we’d take Molotov cocktails and throw them at their feet.  The fire would be on the rocks all around them, and that would make them jump in the water.  Nobody was allowed in our neighborhood.”

One family that lived near the Lawtons was the wacko O’Reillys.

“It was a big old, Irish family with six kids.  They were all crazy.  A psycho family.  I loved them. They had this old station wagon with the muffler dragging, and the dog chasing the car.  They had a rough time of it with money.  Billy Joe, who was my brother’s age, once went into the local bowling alley, the Fiesta Lanes, and he left wearing the bowling shoes.  My buddy Dennis said to him, `Billy, you have the shoes on.’

“He said, `These are better than mine.’  So he took the shoes.

“One time Billy Joe was playing football with us, and his mother Wilma came out and yelled to Billy, “Come home and put up the Christmas lights.”

“Fuck you, Wilma,” he said.

“Billy, go home.”

“Fuck you.”

She said to me, `Larry, give me that football.’

“Don’t give her the football,” Billy Joe yelled.  He turned to his mother and said, `I’ll break every window in the fucking house.’

“I didn’t know what to do.  I threw the football up in the air.

“One time Wilma broke a stickball bat over son Eddie’s shoulder.

“He said, `What are you going to do now, Wilma?’

“She came out with a metal pipe, hit him with it, and he was down for the count. Another son broke his arm and didn’t even bother to get it fixed.  He played sports left handed and became ambidextrous.  They were so nuts, but they were tough—and loyal as the day is long.”

Gangster Redemption Coming Out Soon……

You will find this book, truthful, heartbreaking and inspiring.  Larry Lawton gave his heart and soul to this book and wanted to thank everyone for their patience while he completed this two year project.

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You DO NOT have to be sentenced to attend the live Reality Check Program. Being pro-active is the best thing a loved one can do. Opening a persons eyes to the consequences of bad choices is the first step in helping your loved one.

The Reality Check Program helps adults and Juveniles see where they are headed if they keep making bad choices. Understanding what the prison system is REALLY like opens eyes. It’s about choices and making good decisions.

To Register:

Call 321-327-2921 M-F 9am – 5pm

You can register and pay on-line.  Click Here   A counselor will call to confirm your registration. Please enter a phone number on your registration.

Susan Bartelstone is a recognized expert on crime prevention and was nominated for the Crime Victims Service Award by the Department of Justice. Two very prestigous organizations in our countries biggest city, the NY Woman’s Agenda and the Immigrant Domestic Violence Services of New York honored Susan as well.

Larry Lawton will bring a unique prospective to the topic as Mr. Lawton has a book coming out shortly and has been working on a TV show for the past six months. “It is an honor to be invited on this great show’ said Lawton. When Larry first started the Reality Check Program, Susan recognized the positive nature of the program and how it can help crime victims all over the country. “The less people doing crime, equals less victims of crime” said Susan.

“Susan helped launch my career” said Larry. Larry appeared on Susan’ show back in 2009 and after the show was heard in NYC he was called by the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to do a TV skit. Once he did the TV skit he was called by a TV production company and was also called by the Huckabee show with Governor Huckabee. “What a range of shows, from a liberal show like the Daily show to a conservative show like Huckabee. Can you get any more different on views” said Lawton.

Lawton911 and the Reality Check Program DVD are all about one thing. Helping teens and adults understand the consequences of their choices. Mr. Lawton has been to Congress, speaks all over the country and has no political view publicly.

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