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Is he guilty or really an innocent man railroaded for a crime he did not commit? Those are the questions to which the fans of Siccaturie ‘Jah Cure’ Alcock have been longing for true answers. But I believe that the man whose voice now dominates the airwaves with ‘True Reflections’ may be guilty as charged after I read the harrowing account by the victim of the rape. Even though there were some small loopholes and gut checks in her story, I believe for the most part that she has no doubt that her rapist was ‘Jah Cure’.

If he were really innocent, why has no one come forward with fresh evidence like an alibi placing him somewhere else on that fateful night. Or why has he never ever said something like, I didn’t do it, I was somewhere else at the time? I believe that he deserves to serve his time for whatever role he played in the terrible run of events that occurred that night. He should serve his time, and stop professing his innocence. As we all know, every man is prison is innocent. That’s just the way it is. Maybe it’s his name that did him in, Alcock, which broken down could be ‘all cock’, and we could safely presume that it was in his nature to be a horny young bastard. 'Jah Cure’, who was transferred to the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre from the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in 2004, and has been recording several songs at a studio that was built there. He has recorded two albums for VP Records, and has had had notable efforts such as ‘Run Come Love Me Tonight’, but his biggest-hit-to-date is no doubt the plaintive ‘Longing For’. Alcock had his application for parole turned down last year despite a passionate campaign launched by his clique of concerned friends, family members, and entertainers. This was after he became eligible for parole on July 28, 2003. 'Jah Cure' was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on April 26, 1999, for two counts of rape, robbery with aggravation, and illegal possession of firearm, all arising from the same incident. He received this sentence at age 19. Commissioner of Corrections Major Richard Reese said that Alcock’s earliest date of release, if he does not breach any regulations, is July 28, 2007. However, if he breaks any rules, he could stay in prison until July 18, 2011.

August 13, 2005 General Penitentiary, Kingston, Jamaica Jah Cure interviewed by Josef Bogdanovich DSR: Given the nature of the charges against you, do you think your charges were excessive? Jah-Cure: Everything was excessive sentence was excessive charges was excessive. DSR: Do you think you could really survive 15 years in prison? Jah-Cure: I would have to survive it, because one thing that I know is that I was not going to die, because I see man surviving up to twenty-five. DSR: Do you feel sufficiently rehabilitated to be re-integrated into society? Jah-Cure: Well the system doesn’t rehabilitate one, you know, one rehabilitates themselves and I didn’t really need no rehabilitation but, I capitalized on some ways in which I needed to capitalize on, so I feel I got a chance to rehabilitate myself. DSR: What has the experience of being in prison been like for you? Jah Cure: It’s the roughest experience. It’s a life time experience. It’s the roughest thing that I have ever been through. I don’t think that life can get worse than this for me. DSR: Have you been able to get along with your fellow prisoners? Jah-Cure: I get along with most everyone because, true, I have loved and I studied human psychology, which is used by everyone. I don’t have a problem getting along with people. DSR: Are you scared? Jah-Cure: You cannot be scared when you have the love from the Almighty. Remember that. DSR: Has your creativity been affected by your incarceration? Jah-Cure: No! But prison doesn’t build you. It kills you, so when you really can push through here so; it’s like a rose through the concrete ya!! Knowing that concrete is something hard and you don’t know how a rose would come out through the burst part, but, it’s just Jah works. DSR: What keeps you going? Jah-Cure: Well the prisoner’s keeps me going. DSR: What is your motivation behind bars? Jah Cure: Hearing the fans, singing my music, and knowing that there is someone out there who hears me, loves me.

DSR: You seem to be more creative now than you were several years ago? Jah Cure: Yeah, well, I mean I am now capitalizing on all ways possible and building for when I go back out into society. I want to be able to win souls and be a great man. I want to be much better than before, so in my mind it’s a mind frame because you have to get there in your mind before you get there in your flesh. So in my mind I have already gotten there. DSR: Where do you go in your mind to pen such wonderful songs? Jah-Cure: I go the farthest that is mainstream in my mind, but, before I go to mainstream I go physically in the flesh. DSR: Are you earning from your creative efforts? Jah-Cure: Yes. I am earning physically, spiritually, almost in every way, because you never can loose in a work like this cause music speaks the universal language. DSR: Are you satisfied that while you are in jail, your earnings are in good hands? Jah-Cure: Yes. My income is set up inna way. I have my mother and my agents out there and they are monitoring I Cure Music Company. DSR: Do you think that the music contributes to the present level of crime and violence? Jah-Cure: Yeah mon! You have to know what your saying but, I am not going to smash no artist. Just know what you’re saying because the world is listening. DSR: What is your favorite all-time song? Jah-Cure: A Beres Hammond, that says. “Warriors don’t cry, lots of folks will hate you, not because they want to but sometimes they don’t even know why.” DSR: How did you get involved with DownSound Records? Jah-Cure: I first got involved with them, let me see, a year ago or so with a tune that I recorded with them called “Congo Man” on the Maroon Riddim. Then a month ago “True Reflection.” We recorded that here in GP.

The video, everything. I like DownSound, everything they do. Big up! DSR: Which dancehall and reggae artistes do you admire and why? Jah-Cure: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Yami Bolo, Sizzla, Capleton because they are my inspiration and when I see them make mistakes I can capitalize and come good because I see their down fall and their greatest errors in certain aspects of the business. DSR: Who is Jah Cure? Jah-Cure: Jah Cure is just somebody who is loving and free spirit and gets miserable whenever things is not right, a nuh nutten a ghetto we come from. DSR: What was your first job? Jah-Cure: My first job was to pin up bags in a supermarket two days Friday and Saturday and collect a little $60, anything drop down behind the counter was mine. DSR: Who was the first person you ever loved? Jah-Cure: Well, the first person I have ever loved is Shamara and it seems as if no other love ever got so real and a just so it go. DSR: When was the last time you cried? Jah-Cure: The last time I cried was when I came to G.P and I saw how G.P was wicked and I was wondering why I left Spanish Town and Spanish Town was so smooth and I was doing all good and I never did anything. It was like a secondary heaven coming to a first degree hell.