Donnie, Thanks for your letter! Your words once again moved me almost to tears, putting men in cages for crimes is just not always the answer. Do I think some men belong in cages for their entire life? Hell yes, but not all of them, it gives the idea that you cant be rehabilitated and that your not worth trying to fix. Writing lifers was a hobby for me when I was younger and its been years since I have taken the time to remember you all but with a brother on death row and another on his way there once his verdict gets read I realize that the people behind the walls of Americas prisons are not all bad people. I wonder sometimes how a person on death row or spending life in prison thinks about tomorrow or how they wake up everyday with motivation to do anything. If I was walking in your shoes I would surely be broken beyond repair and unable to cope, I admire your strength to even write me let alone write in this blog. I wonder about you often and what you enjoy and about who you were before a lifer became your MO. I will gladly get the information you need I am just not really sure how to do so... I am going to try to find his post to you and get it sent out as soon as I can. I don't have a lot to offer you but I can offer you a friendship and hope that not every human on the outside thinks of you as an animal. I actually found the letter he sent you I am adding a transcription of it after this message I hope it is the letter you were looking for and I hope it helps, not sure if its the rite thing or not but I hope so. I hope your doing well and surviving in there, If there is anything else I can do for you let me know! Keep your head above water, Love always Erica
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Thanks for your letter! Your words once again moved me almost to tears, putting men in cages for crimes is just not always the answer. Do I think some men belong in cages for their entire life? Hell yes, but not all of them, it gives the idea that you cant be rehabilitated and that your not worth trying to fix. Writing lifers was a hobby for me when I was younger and its been years since I have taken the time to remember you all but with a brother on death row and another on his way there once his verdict gets read I realize that the people behind the walls of Americas prisons are not all bad people. I wonder sometimes how a person on death row or spending life in prison thinks about tomorrow or how they wake up everyday with motivation to do anything. If I was walking in your shoes I would surely be broken beyond repair and unable to cope, I admire your strength to even write me let alone write in this blog. I wonder about you often and what you enjoy and about who you were before a lifer became your MO. I will gladly get the information you need I am just not really sure how to do so... I am going to try to find his post to you and get it sent out as soon as I can. I don't have a lot to offer you but I can offer you a friendship and hope that not every human on the outside thinks of you as an animal. I actually found the letter he sent you I am adding a transcription of it after this message I hope it is the letter you were looking for and I hope it helps, not sure if its the rite thing or not but I hope so.
I hope your doing well and surviving in there, If there is anything else I can do for you let me know!
Keep your head above water,
Love always
Erica