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Robert Pezzeca Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
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gfletcher96 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. Thought is was a very fascinating read and perspective on God and homosexuality. Also glad to hear that you are not suffering any more.

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Tanvimongia Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Dear LaRon,

I am so happy to hear that prisoners at Waupun Correctional Institute are finally fighting back against the mind control programs that are meant to "rehabilitate." When I found out about the overuse and abuse of solitary confinement it truly shocked me and hurt me to my core. This is no way to treat a human, in fact is the so antithetical to the idea of being human. I have read some of your writings on your blog and it seems to me that you have such a pure heart and wonderful soul. It seems that you truly see the beauty in this universe and the purity that exists within our fellow human beings. It is long long overdue that prisoners and citizens stand up to the prison's use of solitary confinement. It is in NO human's right to inflict such deep pain and suffering to his fellow man. Your fight is gaining national attention as it rightfully should. For too long our society has been absolutely blind to the way our prison system treats its fellow prisoners, for so long I was bling to this as well, it only takes a little research on prison blogs to see the total psychological abuse that happens right in our own backyards. It almost reminds me of something from the medieval times. I want to wish you the best on your hunger strike. To fight to the death means that your cause comes deep from within you. It is time for solitary confinement to end in this country and your fight will shape the lives of thousands in years to come. It is time for the institution to fulfill your demands that no one spend more than a year in solitary confinement. I want to wish you strength in the days and weeks to come. I know that you will be in your cell starving and feeling weak but I wanted to send you strength from the outside. A true noble and pure cause will never lose hope and thousands of people are in support of you. You might not see it but i urge you to feel it. I stand in solidarity with all the wisconsin prisoners and all prisoners around america that are subject to psychological abuse. I believe that your actions will ring in eternity and I know that this was your journey and destiny. May god bless you, may you find strength in this hunger strike, and may the government find the human empathy to stop such abuse. I stand in solidarity with you. I would love to keep in contact with you as it is my mission to stop/restrict solitary confinement in America. It is a matter of our shared common humanity and the single consciousness that all living things share. My address is 2340 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704. All the best.

love and peace
--Tanvi Mognia

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Julia Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. Keep on writing!

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Donny Welch Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
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Melanie Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Hi Teddy, Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post.
If someone wants to help you they could also go to https://www.municipalrecordsearch.com/dallastx for an updated list of citations that require payment. They'll need your license number (which you already provided) and they'll need your birth date too, which I'll share for you because I know it...9/24/73. Don't give up on your dream-it hasn't been erased, it's just on hold for right now! Talk to you soon, Melanie

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susan Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Hi Daniel,

I am not sure what to say besides: I am listening. I feel your pain with you. I know the feeling of wanting to heal with someone, and having to heal on your own - and that powerlessness of not knowing how/if their healing is going.

I don't want to interfere with the important process of acceptance, but some thoughts that also came to mind were: How can you use this pain to accomplish your goals of living a functional, responsible, and safe life? How can you help people *like* your ex-wife and daughter to heal, with the idea that that means someone out there is helping them heal too?

Best,
Susan

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Tanvimongia Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Everyday I question why God decided to allow solitary confinement to grow so popular in the US. I can't find any justification for it in my head. It extracts all forms of beauty, of love, of joy, of happiness from a human's heart. The jailers are more sick than the ones they lock up. It is cruel without a doubt. everyday I wake up and i know that while I am waking up to sun shining through my window and a free heart, thousands of men are waking up in the same concrete tomb that they have woken up to year after year. it breaks my heart it truly does. but i will fight everyday in anyway I can to stop this torture. Jesse you are a beautiful soul from what I have gathered from your writings. You are not a murderer but they have chosen to define you as such. you have such a goddamn beautiful soul. more than any prisoner whose writings I've read. There is something so different about you that I can't put my finger on. You have a form of pure love. It seems to me that you would sacrifice your whole being for someone or something that you love. Your love seeps through the walls of these prisons and it has reached my heart. You are eternal and you are beautiful. It hurts me to know that everyday you are being dehumanized but I hope that this universe gives you something to hold on to. Maybe in your next life you will be full of joy and freedom. Bless your heart Jesse. You are loved.

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Tanvimongia Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Dear Mustafa-El Ajala,

Solitary confinement is a DISGRACE to our common humanity. prisoners lose their right to live in a free SOCIETY. but no where in their sentence were they sentenced to cruel INSANITY. thousands of prisoners in this country are being buried alive and this is the most outrageous civil rights issue that is happening on American soil. Someone needs to report this to the FBI there needs to be investigations as to what really goes on in these prisons. Your strength is infinite and your work to fight segregation is so wonderful. I don't know anyone in prison but this issue grabbed me by the throat. Currently Wisconsin prisoners are holding a hunger strike to protest long term solitary confinement. I stand in solidarity with these prisoners and prisoners all around this country who are subject to the most INHUMANE conditions. I've been sending letters to people to demand DOC accountability. I wish I could just end it myself right now. The problem is, not enough people know how brutally the US treats its prisoners. It is one of the worst prison systems in the entire world. It needs to end. we need change and we need it NOW.

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