Did you know that there are parole eligible men (truly rehabilitated men) who are being denied parole
year after year?
to voices from within
WRITE YOUR LEGISLATORS - PAROLE OLD LAW PRISONERS!!!
We're not talking about an 18-year-old who committed a crime yesterday or last week, and doesn't even understand how selfish and terrifying he is to his own community and family. For those kinds of people need to be captured and rehabilitated.
The travesty we're talking about are those once 18-year-old's who have been incarcerated for 15 or 20 years so far, and have been parole eligible for the last 5 or more of those years, yet they're purposely being denied parole year after year. We're talking about men who have matured, developed an adult's perspective on life, and can clearly be seen as rehabilitated even by the most untrained eye. Men who have been model-inmates, completing several educational, vocational and life enhancing programs.
Paroling rehabilitated men who have proven themselves deserving of a second chance will 1.) ease the over-crowding. 2.) give a changed man a second chance, 3.) most importantly, create room for those who are committing serious crimes as you read these very words! There are rehabilitated men who need help, opportunity, and support. They have family, friends, and jobs that are lined up awaiting their arrival, but the secret hidden agenda of parole abuse is prolonging (year after year) the second chance of countless, changed, rehabilitated men who have no voice! (a prisoner in oakhill)
Roy Rogers
Andrae Bridges
essay : HOW MUCH TIME IS ENOUGH ??
by Harlan Richards
began the process of holding prisoners as long as possible.
letter of families and friends to Parole Chairman Alfonso Graham
essay: perceptions of parole
