Hello, I've never written you before, but I hope you get well soon. :) Hopefully, when you get this letter you'll be feeling perfectly fine again. Well - as fine as you can in prison at least... ~Jamie
Nate- I am saddened by the torture you have endured , esp at Waupun. I have A son who has also been assaulted while at Waupun- and after obtaining the entire PREA records( which is a very difficult and expensive task to do) the ACLU has agreed to take this case on against Waupun. I Have forwarded your name to the attorney representing my son as well. The way Waupun handles any and all PREA concerns and complaints is against both the federal act as well as the WI act. If a call or complaint- even a concern- is made in good faith there is to be NO punishment. Punishment is only to be used when it can be proven That there was a motive for making a false claim. 85% of PREA cases filed at Waupun in 2015-2016 resulted in punishment - even thou these investigations were found to be incomplete, interviews performed by untrained personal, none of the PREA guidelines followed but no punishment to be brought upon the WI DOC. I'm a strong woman who has already stood face to face with the warden at WCI and will continue to fight for humane treatment for all in the DOC custody. These reports that are not completed correctly are across the board- inmate/inmate as well as staff/inmate. Please know there are people out here that demand the institutions follow the rules, just like we all have too. As You know WCI is so very good at failing to get appeals and such out to Madison in the timeframe- I have all appeal forms at my home and send them in as needed (in order to meet the deadlines that they try to prevent you from meeting by withholding the mailing of your letters) and because of that – my sons "lying about/ to staff" was reversed. I wish you luck- and I hope that all the "nagging" I've done with the ACLU will pay off to all of the incarcerated men and women in the Wisconsin Department of corrections – it sickens me to know that they are getting extra money every year to improve their previous standards when they can even meet the basic ones
Hello James, Hope you're doing alright. Personally, I'm an atheist and don't believe in any god, but I think if there is a hell and you truely regret what you've done you won't go there. I think god should be fairer than humanity. :) I just think "heaven" and "hell" make everything seem really black and white, you know. But no one's an absolutely pure angel, neither is anyone completely evil. It's always gray, y'know. And everyone makes mistakes - some are just worse than others.
Yeah it's kind of a pity that you can't sell them - or even make a lot of people see them. Mind if I ask if you have references for your artwork? Or do you just draw it from your mind? That's be really impressive.. Because I can't draw sh*t from my mind... :D Say, could you tell me more about the prison you're in? Ahh, I'm probably really insensitive, sorry. But I'm wondering if it's like the horrible prisons that I see in TV or at least a bit humane.
Oh I'm only 16 years old, so I'm not really studying at like a university yet, just in regular school (would be high school in America, I think). But lately I've been thinking about studying psychology. I want to help people when I grow up. You said you were paranoid - if I could make people feel good, let them forget fear, greed, etc. or help them overcome a tragic past (like if you have a really bad childhood), that would be great. I mean, a lot of serial killers for example had really bad childhoods that I can't even imagine. Of course that doesn't justify their actions, but if someone would've reached out and helped them soon enough, maybe everything would have gone different.
Sorry for writing so much, I may have gone a little overboard. :) I look forward to reading from you again! Jamie
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I've never written you before, but I hope you get well soon. :) Hopefully, when you get this letter you'll be feeling perfectly fine again. Well - as fine as you can in prison at least...
~Jamie
You know WCI is so very good at failing to get appeals and such out to Madison in the timeframe- I have all appeal forms at my home and send them in as needed (in order to meet the deadlines that they try to prevent you from meeting by withholding the mailing of your letters) and because of that – my sons "lying about/ to staff" was reversed. I wish you luck- and I hope that all the "nagging" I've done with the ACLU will pay off to all of the incarcerated men and women in the Wisconsin Department of corrections – it sickens me to know that they are getting extra money every year to improve their previous standards when they can even meet the basic ones
Hope you're doing alright.
Personally, I'm an atheist and don't believe in any god, but I think if there is a hell and you truely regret what you've done you won't go there. I think god should be fairer than humanity. :) I just think "heaven" and "hell" make everything seem really black and white, you know. But no one's an absolutely pure angel, neither is anyone completely evil. It's always gray, y'know. And everyone makes mistakes - some are just worse than others.
Yeah it's kind of a pity that you can't sell them - or even make a lot of people see them. Mind if I ask if you have references for your artwork? Or do you just draw it from your mind? That's be really impressive.. Because I can't draw sh*t from my mind... :D
Say, could you tell me more about the prison you're in? Ahh, I'm probably really insensitive, sorry. But I'm wondering if it's like the horrible prisons that I see in TV or at least a bit humane.
Oh I'm only 16 years old, so I'm not really studying at like a university yet, just in regular school (would be high school in America, I think).
But lately I've been thinking about studying psychology.
I want to help people when I grow up. You said you were paranoid - if I could make people feel good, let them forget fear, greed, etc. or help them overcome a tragic past (like if you have a really bad childhood), that would be great.
I mean, a lot of serial killers for example had really bad childhoods that I can't even imagine. Of course that doesn't justify their actions, but if someone would've reached out and helped them soon enough, maybe everything would have gone different.
Sorry for writing so much, I may have gone a little overboard. :)
I look forward to reading from you again!
Jamie