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      Letters From Death Row: You Have Friends Here

      Letters From Death Row: You Have Friends Here

      A Death Row Inmate in Florida writes: I’m still feeling a little down about last week’s execution. They killed Mark Asay on the 24th. I had honestly expected him to get a stay. Florida was using a new ...

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      What Really Matters

      What Really Matters

      It took several agonizing months of listening to cellmate’s stories before I realized that my innocence didn’t matter. At fifty-one, I’d had a pretty full life. This 17-year-old African American boy, arrested in front of school merely because he stood next ...

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      Inmate Contributors , Michael Henderson

      The Shake Down

      The Shake Down

        Shake down Go ahead and take it from me Shake down In the middle of the night Shake down I’m sleeping here can’t you see Shake down it’s not alriiiiiight… With me Although this sounds like a ...

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      Inmate Contributors , Michael Henderson

      Change Starts With You

      Change Starts With You

      “How am I racist? I’m Black!” Racism is something I never gave much thought to for most of my life, I just didn’t ascribe to the unconscious practice even before I began waking up. My opening quandary is an actual, honest-to-God ...

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      Trailer: Letters From Prison

      Trailer: Letters From Prison

      Some of you may have already seen this in our Spring 2017 Quarterly E-Newsletter – but it deserves it’s own post, and we want to be sure no one misses it. We are honored and ...

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      Inmate Contributors , Michael Henderson

      My Reluctant Ministry – Family

      My Reluctant Ministry – Family

      The most remarkable part of being locked up is not the lack of remorse and compassion from these prisoners, but the level of humanness of these so called hardened criminals. A man came to me the other day because, he said, ...

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      Letters From Prison: Welfare Check Please

      Here is a touching letter from an inmate in Texas who is worried about a fellow inmate he met during transit – which means he likely spent a week or less with him. #InmatesAreHuman ...

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      Letters From Prison: No Mental Health Help For Ohio Inmates

      From www.rehabcenterforwomen.org: According to a report by the Treatment Advocacy Center, in 2012 the United States had 10 times more mentally ill individuals in its prisons than the amount who are treated in ...

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      Inmate Contributors , Michael Henderson

      Letters From Prison: Our Humanity is Broken

      Letters From Prison: Our Humanity is Broken

        Some mornings when I wake for breakfast chow at 3:00 or 3:30 here in the County Jail, I can’t help pondering the question of where they are able to find so many people with the same disposition; just dripping with ...

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      Letters From Prison: Our loved one, their ward

      Please share this story widely, this family needs answers. On February 27, 2016, I received a devastating phone call from my mom. My mom is almost 74 and was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer about a year ago.  It has ...

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