I want to thank you for your post. I've been appalled by so much of what I've heard about our nation's prison systems, and this is the first post that I came across while looking online for material written by prisoners about their experience. I've heard in the past that writing to prisoners is a good thing to do, but after reading your post, I feel very inspired to actually be proactive and do so in order to educate myself.
Thank you for writing these. I'm sure that you've gone through a lot and you should know that you are doing a lot of good by expressing the realities of prison life to the outside world. It's (unfortunately) rare to be able to hear from the perspective of someone who's actually experiencing it. I haven't read all of your posts yet, but I plan on doing so. Each one that I've read so far has had a large effect on me.
There are many aspects of the system that anger me, and have angered me for years. I'm sorry that you, among so many others, have had your life so greatly effected by a very flawed system. Know that you've inspired me to do all that I can do, as an individual, to try and make things better.
Rich, I just looked up the cost of Connecticut tags. After getting your car checked out for %15, it costs about $80 for tags (depending on the type of vehicle).
After reading a couple of your letters on http://www.prisonactivist.org/, I'm writing to make a request that could end up being a win-win situation. We are writing a book about "felonism" about the socially accessible and institutionalized prejudice against people with felonies and people who love them. We "invented" this word to identify our years of frustration (and witnessed felonism imposed on MANY more). You can see our federal case in Dixon v Holland – 1999. We also won in the TN Supreme Court in 2000 when his illegal sentence was overturned.
This is the 1st book on felonism. Most of it will be comprised of stories by people in various walks of life who have personally experienced and / or demonstrated felonism. Would you be willing to write a chapter for our book? I cannot promise you money, but if your article is used AND IF it generates enough for each contributor (including us) to receive $500, we will make a one-time-payment to every contributors included in the book. The worst that could happen is that each published contributor could say they have been published. It is my hope to start a blog in the near future that would be a showcase contributors who are not published in the book.
Story must be real (but please change names and possibly locations to protect the innocent and guilty), personal, and specific. Please include descriptions of the emotional, physical, legal, mental and /or spiritual impacts you have experienced from felonism. We will send release forms to be signed by all contributors before publishing.
We have thee goals: eliminate the negative affects of felonism, eliminate generational incarceration, and transformed all prisons into healing centers. Big goals, but people laughed at Dr. King's dream that black and white children could unite and be treated equally. Racism isn't dead, but it's no longer legally institutionalized. These can happen..
If you make a submission, please send it to P. O. Box 128071, Nashville, TN 37212 or email it to felonism@gmail.com. You are welcome to share this request with others.
You made my day also. I struggle with the trouble of "every little tiny thing goes wrong...yeah goes wrong" (Janis Joplin) well tonight it got to the crying point, and for me, well I'm tough...and people...like jb...how can they sleep at night, I wonder. So many ignorant people...in my life as well... so here I'm balling in my car, a ten year old Toyota Corolla (every thing i own fits iside) in the Walmart parking lot thinking how worthless I feel my life has been. And I read that I made your day. And I stop crying! I make a little attitude adjustment. I realize that the most important things in life are not things (of course) but people. And we made a connection on this crazy little website I found one day as I research all things prison...
I'm renting a two bedroom apt. tomorrow. I've met Billy three times at Holman prison. I am going to be occupied with some clandestine tactics...did I mention we know who did it? He has a dream team law firm, but Alabama doesn't take to New Yorkers telling them they are wrong.
I will write a real letter when i get settled.
Oh, I cut my own hair! Ha ha! You should see how lopsided it is.. I kind of like it...I'll send you a picture.
Tell your friend...well I don't know what to tell him. It's gotta be frustrating.
Hey Floyd, this is G, Calvin's european friend. Sorry to hear you are going through this ordeal, sounds unreasonable and truly unnecessary an aggravation. Know my thoughts are with you as i read your blog. Keep at it and try to stay positive. Ciao.
Then why did you steel his boots? You got a foot fetish? Didnt you do that to the fisherman you killed as well? I love reading your blog to be completely honest but I dont get the feeling your all that truthful. Whats the real story about your helicopter escape and the exwife? Read your blog and havent found to much about that. How about the sex charge with a minor? Well you asked for comments and questions. Lets here the answers
I hope this note finds your health well. I am writing on behalf of The Prison Birth Project. We received your solidarity letter and wanted to reach out to thank you for your support. Also, we wanted to see if you had any objections to us printing your letter in our newsletter. Sending our support.
RSS
Thank you for writing these. I'm sure that you've gone through a lot and you should know that you are doing a lot of good by expressing the realities of prison life to the outside world. It's (unfortunately) rare to be able to hear from the perspective of someone who's actually experiencing it. I haven't read all of your posts yet, but I plan on doing so. Each one that I've read so far has had a large effect on me.
There are many aspects of the system that anger me, and have angered me for years. I'm sorry that you, among so many others, have had your life so greatly effected by a very flawed system. Know that you've inspired me to do all that I can do, as an individual, to try and make things better.
I just looked up the cost of Connecticut tags. After getting your car checked out for %15, it costs about $80 for tags (depending on the type of vehicle).
After reading a couple of your letters on http://www.prisonactivist.org/, I'm writing to make a request that could end up being a win-win situation. We are writing a book about "felonism" about the socially accessible and institutionalized prejudice against people with felonies and people who love them. We "invented" this word to identify our years of frustration (and witnessed felonism imposed on MANY more). You can see our federal case in Dixon v Holland – 1999. We also won in the TN Supreme Court in 2000 when his illegal sentence was overturned.
This is the 1st book on felonism. Most of it will be comprised of stories by people in various walks of life who have personally experienced and / or demonstrated felonism. Would you be willing to write a chapter for our book? I cannot promise you money, but if your article is used AND IF it generates enough for each contributor (including us) to receive $500, we will make a one-time-payment to every contributors included in the book. The worst that could happen is that each published contributor could say they have been published. It is my hope to start a blog in the near future that would be a showcase contributors who are not published in the book.
Story must be real (but please change names and possibly locations to protect the innocent and guilty), personal, and specific. Please include descriptions of the emotional, physical, legal, mental and /or spiritual impacts you have experienced from felonism. We will send release forms to be signed by all contributors before publishing.
We have thee goals: eliminate the negative affects of felonism, eliminate generational incarceration, and transformed all prisons into healing centers. Big goals, but people laughed at Dr. King's dream that black and white children could unite and be treated equally. Racism isn't dead, but it's no longer legally institutionalized. These can happen..
If you make a submission, please send it to
P. O. Box 128071, Nashville, TN 37212 or email it to felonism@gmail.com. You are welcome to share this request with others.
Thank you,
Linda Polk
Bella
I'm renting a two bedroom apt. tomorrow. I've met Billy three times at Holman prison. I am going to be occupied with some clandestine tactics...did I mention we know who did it? He has a dream team law firm, but Alabama doesn't take to New Yorkers telling them they are wrong.
I will write a real letter when i get settled.
Oh, I cut my own hair! Ha ha! You should see how lopsided it is.. I kind of like it...I'll send you a picture.
Tell your friend...well I don't know what to tell him. It's gotta be frustrating.
Lynne
Whats the real story about your helicopter escape and the exwife? Read your blog and havent found to much about that.
How about the sex charge with a minor?
Well you asked for comments and questions. Lets here the answers
I hope this note finds your health well. I am writing on behalf of The Prison Birth Project. We received your solidarity letter and wanted to reach out to thank you for your support. Also, we wanted to see if you had any objections to us printing your letter in our newsletter. Sending our support.
Peace.
Marisa Pizii