The PLRA should be repealed. It was bad policy in the 1990s — an era full of unfair, punitive, and racist criminal justice laws — and allowing it to continue today is even worse policy. As this graph demonstrates, the rate of civil rights filings in federal court immediately dropped following the passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
Thanks for the reply! I can answer your questions for sure!
You are communicating with a 35 year old female who lives in Tennessee (always been here). I am a registered nurse. I read about this website somewhere in the depths of my research into something, but I can’t remember what I was looking for. It had nothing to do with you. I was browsing through the authors on here and you were the only one I stuck with. My hobbies are atypical for a 30- something, so it isn’t weird that I would be interested in a prisoner’s writings. When I’m not reading and researching history, I am out in the cemetery cleaning graves that are over 100 years old. I use a special cleaner (same stuff that Arlington uses) and get stones to look brand new.
So, that’s a little about me. Look forward to any other writings and I hate you didn’t have the encouragement that you deserve!
I pray all is well given the circumstances. Hopefully you remember me I visited you many years ago. I'm Chucky son mother. I remember you being a good man always smiling and generous. Have you heard anything back about your case being overturned?
I was wondering if I'd hear from you. Your right it takes awhile . I don't reply to many post I read. I don't read to many either. Only ones that catch my attention in about the first sentence. Or even just a sentence from the middle. If it does then I start reading away. I'm sure it's been quite a experience for you being behind bars then with a life sentence. Your mind has to regroup itself on a level?? Sure what do I know. I can only imagine how the mind has to get right on the same page as reality. Being that freedom once was to freedom won't ever be again. Not sure how long you started your sentence . Probably don't matter if I know or not. Kinda curious is all? Curious how come your doing life? Not sure I need to know. I probably don't need to know. Curious is all. Where are you housed at? By the way your hand writing is amazing. Very neat and well worded. Me I'm no body and my writing sucks. Typing sucks my finger getting pins and needles. You go by Maze you say. Why is that? I'm full of questions . I'm not sure why. Not sure it matters if you answer or not. I'm not a person who ever asked any questions to or about anything in my life. So it seems weird as hell to me that I asked you questions. I do know a very few people who like to question . I'm well I was not that person. Look at me I'm asking questions. More because I'm curious about you. I hope you don't take that any kind of way. I'm just a girl who can't sleep most nights. Bord most nights. Sick most days . My life sentence is cancer.Anyway I trust no one and I never cared to asked anyone questions probably because I really never cared about anyone long enough to care to ask . I didn't think people had feelings or maybe I just didn't care. Cancer changed me just a little bit differently. So maybe I really do care. I just don't know. I thought I'd tell you a bit about myself. Not that it matters but maybe you can understand why I responded to your post I read. I cant remember what it was I responded to. That be brain cancer. It's not to far gone it's working its way now that it's full blown in my bones. Organs come right behind bones. Kidneys/ liver. Matter of time. I'd say within the new 6 months. But hell who am I to sat. 4 in I was told 5 years . But then it returned they say once that happens it can be less than 36 months. I just don't know but. Bird you with my nonsense. I appreciate. Heck maybe your ok listening to my world for a minute.im starting to fall asleep now. I'll be looking forward to have a letter back from you. Til then I'll be waiting
A federal study showed among healthy offenders age 65 and over the recidivism rate was 13% over an eight year followup after release compared to 67% recidivism rate for those released at 21 years old. I think this study should have delved deeper into the question of the state of health at the time of release, rather than the age. Terminal conditions should be given special consideration, it is humane. The antidotal evidence you cite Robert is heart-breaking. Who would have a good attitude in the circumstances of a medical unit? I have visited infirmaries and the conditions are far from ideal for healing or rehabilitation.
Staff shortages nationwide force the nurse to offender ratio into the inhumane category. Pain control, regularity of required meds, and mental health issues and symptoms associated with elderly conditions, all contribute to the insufficiency of the system to handle "quality of life" health care. If the humanity issue does not get your attention, perhaps the cost of required standards of care should. As more medical systems are outsourced and infirmaries are treated as cost and profit centers, the actual and hidden costs of incarcerating the elderly is ballooning out of control while at the same time, the quality of care is shrinking rapidly.
More than all that, this is a dignity-of-life issue. Pope Francis puts it like this..."We have created a "throw away" culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society's underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the "exploited" but the outcast, the "leftovers".
Is this how ANYONE should be treated? As leftovers? It is time we look at ourselves America and ask, what have we become when someone with dementia or crippling age-related sickness is warehoused in what is essentially a death camp? Come on America, we can do better.
The only reason I'm writing this is to let you know I read all your replies... however, I have told you everything I intended to. You are obsessed with my identity as if you know me or I have "stalked you". Nothing could be further from the truth. At the time of your trial I was a college student interested in attending law school and decided to goto the court house and watch trials. I happened to find yours. That's it. I haven't tried to contact you except once a few years ago when I saw you on a pen pal site. I have no memory of what it was and to my knowledge you never replied. I happened to look you up again this year and saw this site so I wrote you again.
Now, I am really not trying to be mean or argumentative, but I read your account of what happened and not only does most of it directly contradict the facts I vividly remember but it contradicted the confession you signed. Additionally, in one of your appellate decisions, the court summarized the facts of your case. This is public. Anyone can see it. You are suggesting that Wilma banged her head to death? That is simply absurd. There were brick shaped gash wounds in her head revealed in the autopsy. Massive, massive amounts of blood. Your crime was BRUTAL. I'm sorry but those are the facts and no statement you gave would have changed that. You could have testified at trial but didn't. Even your own lawyer Doug in the penalty phase told the jury "You made the right decision in the first phase. He did it." Your sentence being reversed and taken off death row had nothing to do with your innocence. It had to do with the Court not allowing certain past evidence in the penalty phase where the state had to prove "continuing threat to society" to win a death penalty. Never ever has your guilt in the crime been an issue.
Anyway, I wrote you simply to see how your life has been the last 3 decades. You chose to make it all about sex. I'm not trying to be mean to you or argue with you or do anything to make your life more difficult. I can acknowledge my mistake...I should not have written you.
In closing I am happy your son sent you a jpay and hopefully you can have a relationship with him. Everyone deserves to know their father and I hope there is something there for both of you.
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You are communicating with a 35 year old female who lives in Tennessee (always been here). I am a registered nurse. I read about this website somewhere in the depths of my research into something, but I can’t remember what I was looking for. It had nothing to do with you. I was browsing through the authors on here and you were the only one I stuck with. My hobbies are atypical for a 30- something, so it isn’t weird that I would be interested in a prisoner’s writings. When I’m not reading and researching history, I am out in the cemetery cleaning graves that are over 100 years old. I use a special cleaner (same stuff that Arlington uses) and get stones to look brand new.
So, that’s a little about me. Look forward to any other writings and I hate you didn’t have the encouragement that you deserve!
A federal study showed among healthy offenders age 65 and over the recidivism rate was 13% over an eight year followup after release compared to 67% recidivism rate for those released at 21 years old. I think this study should have delved deeper into the question of the state of health at the time of release, rather than the age. Terminal conditions should be given special consideration, it is humane. The antidotal evidence you cite Robert is heart-breaking. Who would have a good attitude in the circumstances of a medical unit? I have visited infirmaries and the conditions are far from ideal for healing or rehabilitation.
Staff shortages nationwide force the nurse to offender ratio into the inhumane category. Pain control, regularity of required meds, and mental health issues and symptoms associated with elderly conditions, all contribute to the insufficiency of the system to handle "quality of life" health care. If the humanity issue does not get your attention, perhaps the cost of required standards of care should. As more medical systems are outsourced and infirmaries are treated as cost and profit centers, the actual and hidden costs of incarcerating the elderly is ballooning out of control while at the same time, the quality of care is shrinking rapidly.
More than all that, this is a dignity-of-life issue. Pope Francis puts it like this..."We have created a "throw away" culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society's underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the "exploited" but the outcast, the "leftovers".
Is this how ANYONE should be treated? As leftovers? It is time we look at ourselves America and ask, what have we become when someone with dementia or crippling age-related sickness is warehoused in what is essentially a death camp? Come on America, we can do better.
The only reason I'm writing this is to let you know I read all your replies... however, I have told you everything I intended to. You are obsessed with my identity as if you know me or I have "stalked you". Nothing could be further from the truth. At the time of your trial I was a college student interested in attending law school and decided to goto the court house and watch trials. I happened to find yours. That's it. I haven't tried to contact you except once a few years ago when I saw you on a pen pal site. I have no memory of what it was and to my knowledge you never replied. I happened to look you up again this year and saw this site so I wrote you again.
Now, I am really not trying to be mean or argumentative, but I read your account of what happened and not only does most of it directly contradict the facts I vividly remember but it contradicted the confession you signed. Additionally, in one of your appellate decisions, the court summarized the facts of your case. This is public. Anyone can see it. You are suggesting that Wilma banged her head to death? That is simply absurd. There were brick shaped gash wounds in her head revealed in the autopsy. Massive, massive amounts of blood. Your crime was BRUTAL. I'm sorry but those are the facts and no statement you gave would have changed that. You could have testified at trial but didn't. Even your own lawyer Doug in the penalty phase told the jury "You made the right decision in the first phase. He did it." Your sentence being reversed and taken off death row had nothing to do with your innocence. It had to do with the Court not allowing certain past evidence in the penalty phase where the state had to prove "continuing threat to society" to win a death penalty. Never ever has your guilt in the crime been an issue.
Anyway, I wrote you simply to see how your life has been the last 3 decades. You chose to make it all about sex. I'm not trying to be mean to you or argue with you or do anything to make your life more difficult. I can acknowledge my mistake...I should not have written you.
In closing I am happy your son sent you a jpay and hopefully you can have a relationship with him. Everyone deserves to know their father and I hope there is something there for both of you.
Best of luck to you, Guy.
Take care
-Anonymous irrelevant human being