Kane Magruder

My background is very complex. Although I am multi-skilled in various fields. I believe I excel at building, whether that's homes, engines or team building.

My whole life i have been driven to help others and to try and assure others happiness or safety. My father instilled that in me and it's what I saw him display all the time while being an alcoholic for 35 years.

For as long as I can remember if I could work I did. Summer jobs cuttin4g grass, raking leaves, delivering newspapers. I enjoyed working, it made me feel important, needed. Plus I kept money and as a young man wanting to play video games, go to movies I needed it. My mother raised my sister and I pretty much on her own, from the age of 4 I was with my mom. At 14 I started staying with my dad during the summer. This is when I really found my niche for building. My father had several friends whom owned businesses, auto shops, construction, concrete businesses. I also found my niche for stealing.

It was at 16 when I was introduced to a jail cell for the 1st time and eventually landed in Training school for boys(Charles H. Hickey). I was there for 10 months and once I was released I felt like I was a grown man. I wanted to act grown, do grown up things. I still worked, I had to because my mom wasn't ready for me to come home with her so I stayed with my dad and eventually got my first apartment at 18 with my girlfriend who was pregnant with my first daughter. That being said, when vanessa was born I needed more money that my jobs were paying so i started robbing and selling drugs. Which landed me in the middle of a 32 man sealed indictment in Carroll County. At the time one of the most prejudice places in Maryland. I eventually received 12 years for a robbery and I beat the drug charges on a technicality, ie...

• 18 U.S.C. § 2511, which prohibits the interception of wire, oral, and electronic communications and the subsequent disclosure or use of illegally intercepted communications;

The charges were dropped. I served 7 years after coming home and violating for failure to report.

Over the next 15years I would be in and out of prison mainly for charges stemming from my drug addiction.

I was never offered Section 8-505 - Evaluation of criminal defendants for my addiction.

During the years of my incarcerations I have never been lazy, always proactive at studying my case law and doing research around that. Well I started to get really good at interpreting the law and finding ways other men could utilize loop holes in their cases using other cases and statutes. Once I was sent to federal prison, it all changed for me. What I thought I was doing as a law clerk in state prison, I couldn't touch most of the guys in the law library. But Im resilient and I stayed in the library watching, listening, learning wanting to grasp all that I could. It was a great experience for me. I truly believe that I needed to go back to prison this last time to learn all that I did. I have wanted to advocate for inmates everywhere from the first time I stepped into a prison. Anyone can tell that the system isn't just broken. It's obliterated! What "they" say it was designed for was never the reason to begin with, and it has never started to scratch the surface of that initial goal. I left the Feds to finish an 8yr sentence. While back in the state system I was able to put to work all that which I had learned while I was in the various federal prisons. I helped over 10 men regain their freedom thru simply studying their cases and reviewing their post conviction minutes and motions seeing where either the prosecutors were egregious in proving their cases. Yet in almost all cases the men were convicted anyway. No Fair and Impartial juries or trials were heard or given. I have started to study the UCC, wanting to better understand commercial law and seeing how it refers so much to our day to day lives. As well, by me being a business owner I want to operate accordingly to the laws.

I want and desire so much to have a chance to hold a position such as the one you are offering so that I can give back and to give those men and women still incarcerated some hope. With them knowing that there is someone out here who is just like them working on their behalf to try and legislate better standards and fight to get laws and statutes changed or amended. I don't want to out of line, but I need this. I know I was called to do this type of work.

Eastern Correctional Institution 2018-2020

• Automotive Technician Certification/ MD Cert.
• Suicide Prevention Specialist
• * Peer Mentor Specialist (A.A & N.A)

* For men who were still struggling with using while incarcerated.




Central Md Correctional Facility

• Law Clerk/ Inmate Representative

Mentoring 2 Manhood (M2M)

World Wide Community (501c3)