Hi Nathaniel, I read and am intrigued by your postings. I just wanted to drop you a note that I will try and write you shortly and perhaps we can start a friendship. I live in Wisconsin. Best, Amanda
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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.
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Amanda
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