Menendez brothers discuss bullying and trauma in prison in rare public remarks, new podcast interview

Convicted double murderer Erik Menendez, the younger of the Menendez brothers, dished on the “bullying and trauma” he’s seen over nearly three decades in California’s prison system in a rare interview on the “2 Angry Men Podcast.”“Prison was hard for me,” Menendez told the hosts, TMZ’s Harvey Levin and his own attorney, Mark Geragos, speaking of his incarceration in past tense.“I faced a lot of bullying and trauma – it was a dangerous environment.”Menendez and his brother, Joseph “Lyle” Mendnez, are both being held in California’s Richard J.

Donovan Correctional Facility on life sentences without the possibility of parole, but under a new Golden State law, they could see their sentences reduced at a hearing next month and ultimately achieve freedom.“I was picked on, bullied, violently, and it was traumatic,” he said, noting that such treatment is common for many inmates who are not involved with prison gangs.“Prison can be hard, and there’s a lot of suffering in prison,” he said. Menendez, who alongside his brother was convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, has been praised for his good behavior over the past three decades behind bars.“I was separated from Lyle, and I remember the day that I was told Lyle just got assaulted and got his jaw broken…I’m thinking he’s over there, I’m going through this over here, and at least we could protect each other, maybe, if we were together.We were not even allowed to be together.”The brothers, who were sentenced to life without parole in 1996, were finally transferred to the same facility in 2018.Conditions have improved over time, he added.“I believe that [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] is doing their best, and I want to work with them.

I know Lyle is, at really changing that culture today,” he said.“But 25 years ago, it was an even darker, more dangerous place.”Lyle Menendez, in the same podcast episode, discussed...