Sentence with God’s Gift in Mind Age: 62 Family: Wife, Denise; 5 Children; 3 Grandchildren Plea Offer: 70 Months: Without Cooperation Plea Offer: 98 Months: WITH Cooperation (all things hidden) Guideline sentence at trial: 0 – 18 months Trial Tax: Sentence: 225 months/19 YEARS! Served: 63 Months Doing this section is one of the hardest narrative’s I have ever written. Not knowing God’s path for my life, focused in this potentially transformative environment, God’s…
Do We Really Want Justice Reform Or Is It Just A Nice Thought? I have read the compressed volumes of Gulag Archipelago at least 7 or 8 times. It’s about the former Soviet Union and how it shot itself in the foot, by forming a “snitch” society that got so out of control that family members made up lies about each other just to avoid going to prison. I believe we are falling into the…
Elderly inmates want to be useful! We are a group of elderly prisoners writing to you from Federal Corrections Institute at Terminal Island in California. Our hope is that you will hear our stories and help us along with members of the elder prison community who are currently incarcerated to have a second change at a meaningful life. We face long sentences, timely health issues, and are a group that is often overlooked in the current…
77 year old goes back to prison! So, here’s what drama happened today on our prison reality show here. A gentleman who is 77 years old, finally was granted “compassionate release” about 6 weeks ago. He showed back up here last night. So we asked him what happened. Get this. He cannot work a job at his age, nobody wants to hire him. He was at the halfway house. Thing is, he’s been in prison…
INTRODUCING: THE PRISON THINK TANK Why would anyone want to listen to prisoners who have as much as 20 years experience in the prison system about subjects like; Immigration, Aids, Wildfires, Prison, Justice, and Sentencing Reform? About things like, Racism, Religion, and Gangs? How about this? Prison is a microcosm of our free society. How is it a Crip and a Blood cannot live next door to each other in the free world, yet they…
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