Hello James, No problem! I don't except instant-messaging like answers from you, given the circumstances. ;) Mhh, I'm perfectly fine without religion to be honest. When I was very little I was kinda catholic...ish. At least I used to pray with my grandma, but someday I just didn't believe in "god" anymore. :> But! Let's not talk about that. Everyone shall believe what they want to. :) I'm particulary interested in your art, to be honest. Do you draw a lot? And can you also draw people? Haha, they're far from reaching old age..:) My mother has just turned 40 and my step-father is... Uh... Like 37? And my real dad is an ass, so nope, I'll definitly not serve him!:P Fortunately I have a really good relationship with my mum (and stepdad). And they're not religious either, so they won't force me do worship anything, haha. I wasn't even baptized, because my mother wanted me to choose for myself~
Hey! Oops, sorry for making you feel old. :P You're 29, aren't you? Hope my math is not off... (Like it always is, haha) Mind if I ask where you come from - I mean, nationality? How old are the people who write you on average? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only young person who visits this site when I read through other comments, haha. I told some friends of mine about the betweenthebars "project" and one was actually quite interested in it, but they're mostly to lazy to write something. Siiiiiigh. :P So you have been arrested with 17 the first time? Daamn, for what? Since when are you in the prison you are in right now? And for how long are you going to stay? Haha, I think I'm doing something positive with my life already. :> Actually, I'm thinking about studying psychology and becoming a psychiatrist - because I want to help people.
Youre welcome!:) Say - can you draw as well? People who write pretty can often draw really good. Thank you so much for your "step by step" instruction! Really sweet. My friend actually gave me an idea. It's impossible for me to send handwritting letters to you by mail, but maybe I could scan them and let the lovely betweenthebars-team print out the pictures for you...:) I wrote them a mail about that, let's pray that it's going to work! I mean, leaving aside that handwritten letters are more fun and also feel more special, it would also be great practise for me. :D
I'm looking forward to read from you again~ Be well! Jamie
Ciao Robert, thanks for your reply. As you mention the high cost of the Death penalty is new to you, let me drop some more information for you, specifically about Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania's taxpayers have paid an estimated $272 million per execution since the Commonwealth reinstated its death penalty in 1978, according to an investigation by The Reading Eagle. Using data from a 2008 study by the Urban Institute, the Eagle calculated that cost of sentencing 408 people to death was an estimated $816 million higher than the cost of life without parole. The estimate is conservative, the paper says, because it assumes only one capital trial for each defendant and it does not include the cost of cases in which the death penalty was sought but not imposed. The total cost may exceed $1 billion. An earlier investigation had estimated a cost of at least $350 million, based on the 185 inmates who were on death row as of 2014, but additional research into the cases that had already been overturned, or in which inmates died or were executed prior to 2014, revealed a total of 408 people who had been sentenced to death. Pennsylvania has carried out only three executions under its current death penalty statute. State Senator Stewart Greenleaf, a Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, "We're scratching for every dollar that we can right now. To continue to spend that kind of money is hard to justify." The Eagle's investigation also uncovered geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty. 60% of all death sentences came from just four counties: Philadelphia, Allegheny, York, and Berks. Death sentencing rates also varied dramatically, with about a third of counties handing down zero death sentences, while three (Columbia, Cumberland, and Northumberland) had 5 or more death sentences per 100 murders. Somerset District Attorney Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser, who has filed one death penalty case in five years as District Attorney, said, "I think our system is broken. It doesn't do justice to any one of the stakeholders, in my opinion, not the taxpayers, the victims or the defendants. It doesn't work." Reading your response to Jamie I guess you'd agree with Tupac, The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone... Take care, Julia
I haven't written yet - this has really hung on I felt some better today and went to church with a friend - she's been patiently waiting - and made it through the day. Went to Amber's this evening and now I'm going to bed. They're taking me to the beach tomorrow - a nice gesture and I know they're doing it for me - but they don't get that I like the ocean and the rocky cliffs, but I'm not overjoyed about the sand. I'll enjoy it though - they're doing something special for me. :) Anyway I should get a letter done this week:) I love you - more and more :)
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No problem! I don't except instant-messaging like answers from you, given the circumstances. ;)
Mhh, I'm perfectly fine without religion to be honest. When I was very little I was kinda catholic...ish. At least I used to pray with my grandma, but someday I just didn't believe in "god" anymore. :> But! Let's not talk about that. Everyone shall believe what they want to. :)
I'm particulary interested in your art, to be honest. Do you draw a lot? And can you also draw people?
Haha, they're far from reaching old age..:) My mother has just turned 40 and my step-father is... Uh... Like 37? And my real dad is an ass, so nope, I'll definitly not serve him!:P Fortunately I have a really good relationship with my mum (and stepdad). And they're not religious either, so they won't force me do worship anything, haha. I wasn't even baptized, because my mother wanted me to choose for myself~
Looking forward to hearing from you again!
~Jamie
Oops, sorry for making you feel old. :P You're 29, aren't you? Hope my math is not off... (Like it always is, haha)
Mind if I ask where you come from - I mean, nationality?
How old are the people who write you on average? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only young person who visits this site when I read through other comments, haha. I told some friends of mine about the betweenthebars "project" and one was actually quite interested in it, but they're mostly to lazy to write something. Siiiiiigh. :P
So you have been arrested with 17 the first time? Daamn, for what? Since when are you in the prison you are in right now? And for how long are you going to stay?
Haha, I think I'm doing something positive with my life already. :> Actually, I'm thinking about studying psychology and becoming a psychiatrist - because I want to help people.
Youre welcome!:) Say - can you draw as well? People who write pretty can often draw really good.
Thank you so much for your "step by step" instruction! Really sweet. My friend actually gave me an idea. It's impossible for me to send handwritting letters to you by mail, but maybe I could scan them and let the lovely betweenthebars-team print out the pictures for you...:) I wrote them a mail about that, let's pray that it's going to work!
I mean, leaving aside that handwritten letters are more fun and also feel more special, it would also be great practise for me. :D
I'm looking forward to read from you again~
Be well!
Jamie
thanks for your reply. As you mention the high cost of the Death penalty is new to you, let me drop some more information for you, specifically about Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania's taxpayers have paid an estimated $272 million per execution since the Commonwealth reinstated its death penalty in 1978, according to an investigation by The Reading Eagle. Using data from a 2008 study by the Urban Institute, the Eagle calculated that cost of sentencing 408 people to death was an estimated $816 million higher than the cost of life without parole. The estimate is conservative, the paper says, because it assumes only one capital trial for each defendant and it does not include the cost of cases in which the death penalty was sought but not imposed. The total cost may exceed $1 billion. An earlier investigation had estimated a cost of at least $350 million, based on the 185 inmates who were on death row as of 2014, but additional research into the cases that had already been overturned, or in which inmates died or were executed prior to 2014, revealed a total of 408 people who had been sentenced to death. Pennsylvania has carried out only three executions under its current death penalty statute. State Senator Stewart Greenleaf, a Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, "We're scratching for every dollar that we can right now. To continue to spend that kind of money is hard to justify." The Eagle's investigation also uncovered geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty. 60% of all death sentences came from just four counties: Philadelphia, Allegheny, York, and Berks. Death sentencing rates also varied dramatically, with about a third of counties handing down zero death sentences, while three (Columbia, Cumberland, and Northumberland) had 5 or more death sentences per 100 murders. Somerset District Attorney Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser, who has filed one death penalty case in five years as District Attorney, said, "I think our system is broken. It doesn't do justice to any one of the stakeholders, in my opinion, not the taxpayers, the victims or the defendants. It doesn't work." Reading your response to Jamie I guess you'd agree with Tupac, The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone... Take care, Julia
Anyway I should get a letter done this week:)
I love you - more and more :)