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LETTER FROM INSIDE- AUGUST 2012

AUGUST 2012
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SHAWN BROWN (58639066)

8/13/2012                  7:04:33 AM

Letters From In Side

To Whom it may concern

To add to your endeavors in getting signatures to bolster the parole/65% petition. I think it will be a great Idea to get a donation from inmates, to establish T-shirts that has the 65%/parole logo on it, for the support of such... And you can create a 65%/parole website as well, for the public... Its on thing to get families of incarcerated inmates,but, its another to get those as well, from the public, that do not have friends/family members incarcerated.. Now I know this cost money, but, its a get ass try to get the message out this way as well and inmates will see, how, serious this movement is... And you can get pictures of the shirts made and send a picture to those that donate so that they can see where there money went at..

FCI FAIRTON

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 420

FAIRTON, NJ  08320

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CEDRIC LAMONT DEAN (11907058)

8/20/2012                                  12:06:30 PM

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Safeguard Atone Validate Educate (SAVE)                                                                                       www.cedricdean.com

                                                                                                                                               cedricdeansave@gmail.com

AUGUST 20, 2012

MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL PUBLIC

FROM: Cedric Dean, President

SUBJECT: Comprehensive Strategy for Stopping the Violence

Across the world, violence has reached epidemic rates and, as a result, our children are living shorter than their parents. Violence has been recognized as a problem for decades, but efforts to address this crisis to date have been insufficient. SAVE is committed to redoubling our efforts to solve the problem of juvenile violence within a generation through a comprehensive approach that expands on effective strategies, engages families and communities, and galvanizes both public and private sector resources.

Approximately 16 children in America are killed by gun violence daily - a rate that exceeds the number of soldiers killed daily in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The misuse of handguns is a leading contributor to juvenile violence and fatalities. Recent trends show an upsurge in arrest of adolescents for murder, assault and weapon use. The small number of youth who commit the most serious and violent offenses are becoming more violent. Present juvenile courts, foster and protective care programs, and shelter facilities are inadequate to meet (all) the needs of children, who become violent, commit serious offenses, addicted to or who abuse alcohol and other drugs, particularly nonopiate or polydrug abusers. The emphasis must be placed on preventing youth from becoming delinquent to begin with.

The incidence of juvenile delinquency can be reduced through public recreation programs and activities designed to provide youth with social skills, character education, enhance self esteem, and encourage the constructive use of discretionary time. Without effective intervention, many more children will endure imprisonment and premature death that will put a strain on our economy and the criminal justice system. Allowing 1 youth to leave school for a life of crime and drug abuse costs society millions annually, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. We must act to improve the wellbeing of our children and avoid spending billions of dollars to incarcerate them.

Therefore, I have set a goal to solve the problem of violence within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a successful rate. SAVE will lead a national public awareness effort to eradicate the epidemic of violence. We will encourage involvement by actors from every sector - the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, as well as parents and youth - to help support and ignite the work of all levels of Government in improving the welfare of all children. But to meet our goal, we must accelerate the implementation of successful strategies, like our January 2013 Save a Child Month initiative, that will prevent and combat delinquency and violence. Such strategies include updating prevention and intervention policies in a way that addresses the root causes of the violence, ensuring safer communities and schools, as well as increasing occupational education and empowering parents and caregivers with the information, tools, and resources they need to make good decisions for themselves and their children. To succeed, these efforts must be shared and strategically targeted, and accountability should be evident. They will help our children develop lifelong moral habits, ensuring they reach their greatest potential toward living law-abiding and prosperous lives. To these ends, I hereby direct the general public to do the following:

(a) implement SAVE's effective methods of preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency, including our methods that specifically focuses on preserving and strengthening families so that juveniles may be rehabilitated in their homes;

(b) conduct SAVE's effective programs to prevent delinquency, to divert juveniles from the traditional juvenile justice system and to provide critically needed alternatives to institutionalization;

(c) increase the capacity of Houses of Worship and Community Centers to conduct SAVE's effective delinquency prevention and rehabilitation programs and provide research, evaluation, and training service in the field of juvenile delinquency prevention;

(d) encourage parental involvement in treatment and alternative rehabilitative programs; and

(e) provide for coordination of services between Government and Community-based agencies and promote interagency cooperation in providing such services.

I hereby authorize the publication of this memorandum to the public.

USP TERRE HAUTE

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 33

TERRE HAUTE, IN  47808

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CEDRIC LAMONT DEAN (11907058)

8/20/2012                                     12:06:34 PM

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Safeguard Atone Validate Educate (SAVE)                                                                                  www.cedricdean.com

                                                                                                                                              cedricdeansave@gmail.com

AUGUST 20, 2012

MEMORANDUM FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CITY OFFICIALS

    FROM: Cedric Dean, President

SUBJECT: Blue Ribbon Commission for Saving Children

Securing our Nation's communities from senseless violence is crucial to our ability to safeguard, atone, validate, and educate at risk children and teens. My Campaign is undertaking substantial steps to expand the safe, secure, and responsible use of SAVE programs. These efforts are critical to accomplishing many of my Campaign's most significant goals.

An important part of a sound, comprehensive, and long-term anti-violence strategy is a well-considered policy for prevention and intervention and other aspects of the back end of the gang violence cycle. Yet the Nation's approach, developed by policy-makers without firsthand knowledge of what it truly takes to reform a misguided mind, has not proven effective. Fortunately, over the past decade and a half of incarceration, I have learned a great deal about effective strategies for transforming notorious gangsters into law-abiding gentlemen. My Campaign is committed to sharing this advance knowledge to meet our objective to dismantle the juvenile pipeline to imprisonment and premature death.

Accordingly, I request that you establish a Blue Ribbon Commission on implementing SAVE's evidence-based practices and appoint its members. Those members should include ex-gang members and ex-felons from a range of criminal backgrounds and with a range of perspectives, and may include participation of appropriate behavioral health professionals. The Commission's business should be conducted in an open and transparent manner.

The Commission should conduct a comprehensive study of SAVE's policies for safeguarding, atoning, validating, and educating the misguided, including implementation of our January 2013 Save a Child Month (SACM) Initiative in your respective community. The study should include an evaluation of our advance occupational education program that will revitalize distressed communities in your area, resource cost-effective prevention and intervention programs, and the minimization of juveniles participating in violent activities in a manner consistent with law enforcement dismantlement of gangs goals.

In performing its functions, the Commission should consider a broad range of educational and policy alternatives, and should analyze the budgetary, behavioral, environmental, educational, economic, financial and management issues, among others, surrounding each alternative it considers. When appropriate, the Commission should also identify potential statutory changes.

The Commission should provide an interim report to you within 90 days of the date it commences, and that report should be available for public comment. The Commission should provide a final report to you by January 1, 2013 detailing implementation of SACM. The Commission should be made up of non-salary members; however, you should provide funding and administrative support for the Commission, as you determine appropriate, so that it can complete its functions within these time periods.

Additionally, all judicial agencies and divisions should provide necessary information and assistance to the Commission as you or the Commission may require for the purposes of carrying out the Commission's functions, to the extent permitted by law. Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to require the disclosure of classified, proprietary, law enforcement sensitive, or other information protected under governing law. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, solicit any right or benefit, substantive or political, for any member of Safeguard Atone Validate Educate, its affiliates, associates, or any other person.

I hereby authorize this memorandum to be published for public circulation.

CEDRIC DEAN

USP TERRE HAUTE

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 33

TERRE HAUTE, IN  47808

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LETTER FROM INSIDE- JULY 2012

JULY 2012
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RUFUS ROCHELL (08628017)
7/2/2012                                 12:03:30 PM
LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE

We often ask ourselves, what has this country came to, especially when you take a look at the criminal justice system in referance to people of color. My name is Rufus Rochelle, presently incarcerated at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex-Low. I have been imprisoned 24 years and counting for conspiracy with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine. I was sentenced to 420 months with no chance of parole. I was never caught with a single grain of drugs, no wiretaps, no undercover buys, just hearsay evidence. Tell me is this justice?   

FCI COLEMAN LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1031

COLEMAN, FL  33521

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CHRISTOPHER LARONN BROWN (22139057)

7/6/2012                                     8:32:38 AM

LETTERS FROM INSIDE

I  like for the  world to know the federal government is holding

me in prison and i don't meet there statute as a title 18 922 (g) (1)

defendant. The statute say's you must have a prior conviction that

exceeds one year imprisonment, i don't have one so therefore i don't

meet the statutory threshold. The used a north carolina class (i) felony

in the indictment which was a 6 to 8 month probation sentence, you can

never exceed one year imprisonment for such a case. See Simmons v.

united states,649 f3d 237( 4th cir. 2011) see also supreme court  case

Rosend carachuri.

FCI ESTILL

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 699

ESTILL, SC  29918

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NICHOLAS D DEANGELIS (71691004)

7/6/2012                                       10:47:45 AM

LETTERS FROM INSIDE

somewhere in this great nation sits a soul destined to spend decades behind walls and fences not far from him or her is one who has already accomplished this not too easy task. my wish is that the future of those who have emerged this machine remain cognizant of its appetite in order to inform the next generation that it need not be their future. my wish is that we who have logged decades already in the jaws of this beast with more decades in front of us be the example of a redeemed human. that we be the light to the world which illuminates that rehabilitation, in spite of the lack of federally fostered rehabilitation that it does still exist and it dos show itself in second and some times third chances which sadly the federal sentencing schemes seem to have destroyed. let the word go forth that we are  accountable beyond the decades of incarceration leveled upon us that we are worthy of liberty restored that we are a part of the human family who can and do bring change to the men and women we once were .

FTC OKLAHOMA CITY

FEDERAL TRANSFER CENTER

P.O. BOX 898801

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK  73189

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IVORY WILLIAMS (04733095)
7/9/2012                                            10:18:50 PM

LETTERS FROM INSIDE

My name is Ivory Williams and I am currently in Federal Prison on a crack cocaine charge, I think it would be very unjust for congress not to make the Pipeline case retroactive for the people that has been in prison when it's helping the people that just come 2 prison .It has a lot of people been in here that need to get back out there 2 there love one's so I pray that you all make it right for everybody that's in here .It has a lot of people in here that are career offender's but there not violent but they have a lot of time on there hand when if they was 2 just come in the system they wouldn't even get all the time they have now so again I pray that you all give us all some kind of mercy and make it retroactive because we are human and most of all we all are somebody  son,daughter,mother and father and we deserve the fairness just like everyone else .Thank you for your time.

                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                      Truly,your's

Ivory Williams                 

FCI YAZOO CITY MEDIUM

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 5888

YAZOO CITY, MS  39194

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BRYANT KEITH BENTLEY (21138018)

7/10/2012                                     9:19:47 AM

LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE

WHEN MANY PEOPLE THINK OF ANGELS, A SPIRIT OR GHOST IS WHAT COMES TO MIND; A BEING WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS, AN ENTITY INTANGIBLE AND DIVINE.

MY VIEW IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR, BUT I GIVE IT A MORE THOROUGH INSPECTION; BECAUSE RECENTLY I SAW AN ANGEL, AND I WAS INSPIRED BY HER PERFECTION.

HER HAIR FLOATED WITH THE WIND AS SHE APPEARED TO BE GLIDING ACROSS THE FLOOR; HER FACE ILLUMINATED LIKE THE SUN, AND HER VOICE EXPOUNDED A HEAVENLY ENCORE.

HER EYE'S WHICH ONLY SEE THE GOOD IN PEOPLE, WHILE BEING ABLE TO SHUN AN EVIL PRESENCE; HER BREATH OF VIEW, PROBITY AND DISCERNMENT, DESCRIBES HER DIVINE ESSENCE.

HER NOSE IS PERFECT, THE COLOR OF FINE BRASS, AND TO ACCEPT THIS IT MIGHT BE HARD; FOR SHE IS ABLE BY THE MERCY OF OUR LORD, TO SMELL THE SWEET SAVORS OF GOD.

THE LUSTER OF HER LIPS ARE NOT TO BE COMPARED TO THE IMMACULATE WORDS SHE SPEAK; THE TRUTH OF GOD WITH FIERY ZEAL, THAT NO SINISTER COULD EVER BREACH.

HER NECK WAS LONG AND SMOOTH, NO BLEMISHES COULD BE FOUND; STRONG AS AN OAK, BUT SOFT LIKE MELTING BUTTER, PRESTIGIOUSLY WORLD RENOWN.

THE GARMENT SHE WORE SAID PRUDENCE AND VIRTUE, NOT A FIGURE PARADE; THE SUBSTANCE OF HONOR, RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY, THE WOMAN THE LORD HAS RAISED.

HER FEET WHICH STAYS ON THE PATH OF GOD, AND ANGEL, LO AND BEHOLD; FOR WHEN I HAD ASKED THE NAME OF THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THIS IS WHAT I WAS TOLD......."AMAZING GRACE"!

FCI BENNETTSVILLE

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 52020

BENNETTSVILLE, SC  29512

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CHARLES LLEWLYN (60206004)

7/11/2012                              3:48:44 PM

Letters From Inside

It is my belief that history will not treat this generation kindly. In the history of mankind no country has ever perpetuated a war against its own citizenry except the United States. On a daily basis I meet fellow convicts faced with the prospect of dying in prison due to a death-in-prison sentence for a non-violent drug crime. Imagine the prospect of waking up every day knowing that your only escape is death. This in my view constitute mental torture of the worst kind worthy of intervention by the United Nations or Human Rights Watch.

 What makes this issue more glaring is that the  Columbian purveyors responsible for exporting tonnage of kilograms into the United States can received no more than 30 years in prison while a young blackman accused of distributing more than 50 grams of crack cocaine(now 280 grams) faced a potential life sentence. The absurdity of such situtaion defies logic in a country that pride itself on human rights. If the United States can enter into a treaty with Columbia that under no circumstances will one of their nationals received a life sentence, why can't the United States afford the same respect to its own citizens. It stands to reason that there must be some ulterior motive we are unaware of.

Suffice it to say, this absurdity should be brought to the forefront and members of Congress be asked pointed questions as to the underlying reasons why this disparity in treatment. The public needs to be educated to the egrgious acts been carried out in their names.

Charles Llewlyn

FCI JESUP

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

FEDERAL SATELLITE LOW 

2680 301 SOUTH

JESUP, GA  31599

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KEVIN EDWARD ARCHER (08570040)

7/12/2012                                1:18:18 PM

Letters From Inside

The reality is, until corruption and criminal behavior at the lowest levels of government is stopped, you will never be able to deal with it at the highest levels. everyone is running around tripping over the Fast & Furious scandal... But the F & F is only allowed to happen because lower-level corrupt practices are tolerated and not resolved until the stench reaches too high for deniability, and then there's accountability... At this facility, which is a maximum security penitentiary, there are incidents of correctional staff using inmates as their own personal hit squads... There is the almost daily embezzlement of taxpayer funds into the pockets of correctional employees... There are correctional staff at this facility who do not have the mental capacity or stability to handle the responsibility of the job, and so their actions are constantly being swept under the rug... Of these are C.O. Stonebraker, C.O. Sims, C.O. Demis(who commited suicide after his actions could no longer be hid), C.O. Gilbert, Lt's Crooks and Brice... All these individuals are abusing their authority on a daily basis and it will not be dealt until someone is killed behind their behavior... I know this will never get printed because people mhave no real desire to know the truth when it comes to things like this... but there it is...

USP TERRE HAUTE

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 33

TERRE HAUTE, IN  47808

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STEPHEN AGUIAR (03722082)

7/13/2012                                       7:35:47 AM

Letters From The Inside

I am currently serving a 360 month sentence.  DEA placed a GPS device on my vehicle WITHOUT A WARRANT.  The device immediately sent minute-to-minute pings to a DEA server that operates over an internet connection at anytime.  Through these minute-to-minute warrantless searches, shaped the DEA investigation into my being a primary target.  Based on daily warrantless searches, DEA then executed several administrative subpoenas obtaining phone records for several phones of suspected targets.  Administrative subpoenas DO NOT require a warrant.  It is a benefit of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), allowing DEA to obtain all incoming/outgoing calls and cell site location?switch information.  As the investigation gained momentum through continuing warrantless GPS searches, all my email records, my space records, credit reports from all three agencies, and phone records (including cell site location/switch info) also WITHOUT A WARRANT.  DEA then applied for and were granted the use of (NOT through a warrant based on probable cause, but rather a so-called "specific and articulable facts" standard that the number sought by the Government entity is relevant/material to an ongoing investigation...again part of the ancient ECPA) multiple pen register and trap and trace devices for several phones of suspected targets that provide all incoming and outgoing calls, cell site location information, and GPS coordinates of the phones in real time.  Shortly thereafter, DEA applied, and were granted orders for several Title III wiretap authorizations through the Department of Justice in Washington DC.  based on its warrantless fishing expedition.  Following weeks of intercepted communications DEA executed several arrests.

      The US Attorneys office entered into cooperation agreements with any defendant who agreed to cooperate against any other defendant who's attempted to prove innocence.  Even knowing the "proffers given by these defendants were extreme exaggerations or blatant perjury, the US Attorneys Office encouraged, orchestrated, and manipulated these fabrications to convince a jury to convict.  Mid-trial, it was even proved that several of these defendants were not being truthful.  As a precaution to save its case and in a desperate effort, the US Attorneys Office then used the Attorney General's power of immunity promising (off the record) a defendant who had not cooperated with the US Attorneys Office a lesser sentence in exchange for testimony it knew to be exaggerated.  Only then did that defendant agree to testify and testified that he was not promised a lesser sentence to the jury, but yet after several convictions, the US Attorneys Office recommended through a motion to the Court for a lesser sentence for that defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Rule 35(b)...

FCI ALLENWOOD MEDIUM
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 2000 

WHITE DEER, PA  17887

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BARON ANTHONY EWING (14921018)

7/16/2012                                6:33:29 PM

LETTERS FROM INSIDE 



HEY SEXY, YEAH I GOT THEM BEAUTIFUL SEXY PICS FROM MY LOVELY WIFE, BABY, YOU HAVE THE BODY OF A GODDESS, BUT I GOT SOME ISSUES WITH YOU TO, THEM SPANDEX'S WAS SURE FITTING YOU THAT DAY, BUT WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING WEARING SOMETHING LIKKE THAT WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR HUSBAND, THAT ASS WAS SO FAT IN THAT PIC, AND I GOT JEALOUS INSTANTLY BECAUSE I COULDN'T SEE WHAT THEM OTHER NIGGAS WAS SEEING IN PERSON. YOU LOOKED SO CHARMING DURING THE WEDDING, I CAN JUST IMAGINE YOU IN YOUR WHITEDRESS WITH THE TRAIN GOING OUT THE DOOR. WHAT A PLEASANT SIGHT TO SEE. BABY, YOU SURPRISED WITH THE PICTURE OF MY SON, THAT DUDE DON'T LOOK LIKE NOTHING I PICTURED HIM TO LOOK LIKE. HE HAS GROWN INTO A YOUNG MAN, AND THE WAY HE LOOKS IS LIKE HE HAS NO UNDERSTANDING, I HATE I MISSED ALL THEM YEARS OUT OF HIS LIFE, HOPEFULLY I CAN SAVE HIM FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STREETS. BUT FROM THE WAY IT LOOKS THE STREETS HAS GRASPED HIS ATTENTION. I JUST SENT HIM A LETTER AND I HOPE THAT HE WRITES ME BACK SO THAT I CAN GET A FEEL OF WHAT HE IS LIKE AND WHAT SENSE OIF DIRECTION HE IS HEADED. I LOVE YOU BOO AND THANKS ALOT FOR BEING HERE IN THE TROUBLED TIMES, I LOVE YOU AND I APPRECIATE YOU TO THE FULLEST, AND KNOW THAT MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEPER THAN ANY OCEAN. LOVING YOU UNTIL THE END OF TIME YOUR HUBBY TEDDY

FCI ESTILL
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 699
ESTILL, SC  29918

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SHAWN BROWN (58639066)

7/20/2012                   12:06:28 PM

Letter's From Inside

Troubling Times Out Colorado"

A lot of law maker's and civilians will say that, guns are a terrible problem in our society. However, what took place at Century 16 movie theater in colorado, many would view this act as an criminal intent/act what have you.. But, for a 24yr old to disply such an act, its beyounf criminal... ITS MENTAL!! As a federal inmate, I watch as buses pulls up daily to drop of inmates, ages 18-24 are mental impared.. Suffering from depression/dimentia. A lot of our children today are sick(mentally) And the sad part about it is, us as parents are doing a poor job in raising our children. We are not vigilantenough in there behavior, to see if there is early signs of trouble that, will play out, in a criminal act like the one displayed in colorado..

When you think of a 24yr old, you think college, working, dating women etc Pulling, mass murders like this!! It has to be something in the home, not the water.... Its not up to the law makers to father/mother our children at the end of the day.. We have to do this! We were all born innocent children, what happen to our innocense? Its sad what took place in colorado and I speak for the guys at fairton federal institution, a lot of guys are sadly hurt.. And its not a white thing.. So many of us say, only a white person will do something like this. Its our problem as human beings.. Know one wants to live, acording to gods way of living.. We wanna kill, get high, indulge in crime, commit adultry etc. This world in going straight to hell in a paper bag.. No tough on law is helping either.. We are not godly people today on earth, this is why we have so much mischief on earth today.. May God, help us all.... Shawn Brown #58639-066, P.O. Box 420, Fairton, N.J. 08320

FCI FAIRTON
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 420
FAIRTON, NJ  08320
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TOLULOPE AKINROSOTU (42402053)

7/22/2012                                 7:34:21 AM

LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE

                                                        

SHARE YOUR COMPASSION. DIRECT YOUR OUTRAGE. RESURRECT A LIFE.

Support a worthy cause spend a few moments of your time to be inspired by the resilience and determination of one prisoner who refuses to be silenced or addled with despair.

Tolu Akinrosotu is first time nonviolent drug offender who was incarcerated in May 1993, when he was 23 years old.  He received a 30-year, 3-month mandatory sentence, a fine of $50,000 and, 5 years of "supervised  release".  Tolu has now serving the 20th year of the sentence, it amounts to nearly half of his 42 years on earth! He has exhausted all appeals without relief.  His sentence has been essentially rendered unconstitutional by Supreme Court's rulings in Apprendi/Blakely/Booker-FanFan etcl.  Yet, Tolu continues to languish in prison under an a now illegal sentence because the rulings were not retroactive.  W-h-e-r-e i-s the [J-U-S-T]-i-c-e in that?

Without an act of Presidential Executive Grace, Tolu has no hope of being released before November 2, 2019, three months before his 50th birthday. Tolu has spent his time in prison productively, he is a changed man and no good purpose is served by keeping him imprisoned for another 7 years at a cost of  $210,000+.  Learn about Tolu's Quest for Mercy.  Join us in bringing his story to the attention of the President

Here's how you too can be an agent of change: Visit www.clemencyfortolu.com, sign Tolu's online petition, share the link with your friends, like his page and blog about it in your online travels.  Let the President hear you and know your compassion, desire and support....Grant Tolu Clemency.

With Graitude,

Friends, family and supporters

www.clemncyfortolu.com

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000

WHITE DEER, PA  17887 ______________________________________________________________________________

GARY J ANDERSON (26703038)
7/23/2012                                12:49:37 PM

LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE

Why did it take congress fifteen years to finally change the 100 to 1 ratio crack law? How long will it take them to finally change the unfair and unjust mandatory minimum laws? And will they do the right thing and make the changes retroactive??

FCI FORT DIX

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 2000

FORT DIX, NJ  08640

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TIMOTHY L TYLER (99672012)

7/24/2012                                     12:19:27 PM
LETTERS FROM INSIDE

Hello, I was just thinking about the shooter at the Batman movie. If the town decided that he should not get the death penalty then he would end up serving his life in prison without parole. My name is Timothy Tyler with a federal prison number of 99672-012. I was arrested in 1992 and charged with Conspiracy to distribute LSD. I plead guilty for some private reasons and was sentenced to Life in federal prison which means that I must die in prison. So here it is twenty years later. I am in prison serving life. So I wonder if shooting all those innocent people is no worse than what I did. I sold 13 Sheets of paper with LSD on them. Perhaps it is time for the American public to reconsider what is a serious crime. I was featured on the Stossal show thanks to Julie Stewart from FAMM (Families Against Minimum Mandatory's). They were showing several people that are incarcerated in this country including me last week on Fox Business. I am now gay since it is said that without affection people go crazy. Pictures of me can be seen on a website some people started for me called Gratefultruth.com.  I am a non violent avid Grateful Dead fan. I wonder if you as the public agree that I should have the same sentence as a massive Killer. If not then perhaps signing on to support a clemency for me would be more appropriate. 

Sincerely,

Timothy Tyler

USP CANAAN

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 300

WAYMART, PA  18472

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TOLULOPE AKINROSOTU (42402053)
7/29/2012                                    11:47:13 PM
LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE

A HOPE FOR A SECOND CHANCE: If you believe that justice is NOT served when the punishment is grossly out of proportion to the crime

If you believe that people, especially young people, do dumb things that they soon deeply regret

If you feel that people can grow and change for the better

If you feel that sometimes people who have made mistakes deserve a second chance

If you believe that a second chance, after serving 20 years on a 30-year sentence for a first time NONviolent drug crime is not too audacious a hope to have, here is your chance give action to your belief.

Please visit http://www.clemencyfortolu.com

Learn about Tolu, his case and his quest for presidential clemency.  The humanity in you will be compelled to agree that surely, Tolu has paid enough for his crime and that he deserves your support and the support of other fair-minded people.

Sign Tolu's petition and share his petition and cause with your friends and in the social media.  Help bring Tolu home to his family and friends.  Justice delayed is justice denied.  

Thank you for your time and support

http://www.clemencyfortolu.com

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000

WHITE DEER, PA  17887

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TOLULOPE AKINROSOTU (42402053)

7/29/2012                                   11:48:22 PM

LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE 

IN PURSUIT OF OPPORTUNITY: Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "If opportunity doesn't come knocking, build a door in its path." Brilliant inspiration.

My name is Tolu. I'm on a quest for presidential mercy... Building MY door in Freedom's path.

Freedom from a 30-year mandatory sentence for a first time, nonviolent drug conspiracy. Freedom from almost 20 years of regret, remorse, separation from family and, stagnation of my life. Freedom from Loss and chronic despair.

Please visit me at http://www.clemencyfortolu.com

Help me build my door to clemency by signing my petition to President Obama.  Share it with your friends and the world on Twitter, Facebook, all social media and the blogosphere.  PLEASE lend me your support.  Every signatures counts.

Faithfully,

Tolu Akinrosotu

http://www.clemencyfortolu.com

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000WHITE DEER, PA  17887

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BENJAMIN SORRELL (41731074)

7/29/2012                              1:03:49 PM

Letters From the Inside

Crazy and Unreasonable Punishment

I am a Federal prisoner.  I am a bank robber, a carjacker, and a gun criminal.  These things are all true.

I am a son, a brother, and a friend.  I am a college graduate, a nonprofit volunteer, and a hope-to-be- entrepreneur.  These things are also true.

I am slightly over halfway through a ten year sentence.  While I do think my sentence is too long, I don't think it's crazy or unreasonable. An important consideration in my sentencing was the danger to innocent bystanders I carried with me into each of those banks.

Let me pause a moment to say that I am actually sorry for the things I did.  Some of my victims were very frightened during my crimes, and I hate that I steeled myself to look at their fear without compassion.  I am sorry.

There are others less fortunate than I.  As I said, my sentence is neither crazy nor unreasonable.

I worked with a Ukrainian in my prison job.  I think he was innocent.  Not in a jail-is-full-of-innocent-guys way, but in a he-didn't-know-about-the-cocaine way.  In an actually and factually innocent way.  He was also inocent about how the US courts work, so he took his case to trial.  He has since been released back to Ukraine.  I wish him well, and I'm sorry my country stole a decade and a half from him.  Crazy and unreasonable.

I work with another friend whose sentence is crazy and unreasonable.  He is seeking executive clemency from the President.  You can learn his details at www.clemencyfortolu,com.  I can only imagine the personal animosity required to drive such a sentence.

It feels like I am taking too long to get to the point, so here it is.  When I am released in about four years, I will work hard never to break the law again.  If I were released tomorrow, I would work equally hard never to break the law again.  America is paying too much money to keep people locked up for too long.  We are often locked up long past the point that it stops serving any purpose.

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000

WHITE DEER, PA  17887

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EUGENE STINSON (17386014)
7/30/2012                             7:48:44 PM
LETTERS FROM INSIDE

 I think we as ppl community and society as a whole need to learn to crawl before

   we can learn to walk.

                      starting with our country and its laws along with the people whom govern our laws.

    First there are many of you who lobby for us inmates daily,actions in which we apprecitae and thank you for.

 But with that being said, there are many things the public and society needs to understand be fore it can make a firm stand.

The new good time bill that is being suggested by many is a positive and start to doing some good. but 1st things 1st

 there is a 15% good time bill thats already on the books.but is not being followed by law. we the incarcerrated community are to recieve 54days of good time a year but only recieve 47 of those 54days. i dont know why , but this is a fact.so you see before we can lobby for any additional good time, i believe the original good time % should be addressed. thank you for your time and ill keep intouch.

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000

WHITE DEER, PA  17887

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EUGENE STINSON (17386014)

7/30/2012 8:04:43 PM 

LETTERS FROM INSIDE

On the topic of the most popular topic of the ATF "fast and furious"

 I know of many cases that are more faster and more furious than this public spill over.

   of gun running. there is a company located in ansonia conn.who manufactor firearms. this company has convicted felons

  handeling firearms daily. these employees are allowed to test fire and posses said firearms. felons whom have adnitted to stealing and reselling the companies firearms on the black market for a personal profit.To date none of these convicted felons"employees"  have been arrested or fired for their actions.but whom have been allowed to collect unemployment for

a brief period of time , until they have been redirected to a different branch of the company.

all under the watchful eyes of the atf. with out any arrests or sanctions for these violations. the most serious of which is the gun controll act.. look at the world and its violent events.Is this the actions that the public can allo to go un addressed?

FCI ALLENWOOD LOW

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 1000

WHITE DEER, PA  17887 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SHAWN BROWN (58639066)
8/13/2012                     7:04:33 AM
Letters From In Side

To Whom it may concern

To add to your endeavors in getting signatures to bolster the parole/65% petition. I think it will be a great Idea to get a donation from inmates, to establish T-shirts that has the 65%/parole logo on it, for the support of such... And you can create a 65%/parole website as well, for the public... Its on thing to get families of incarcerated inmates,but, its another to get those as well, from the public, that do not have friends/family members incarcerated.. Now I know this cost money, but, its a get ass try to get the message out this way as well and inmates will see, how, serious this movement is... And you can get pictures of the shirts made and send a picture to those that donate so that they can see where there money went 

FCI FAIRTON

FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

P.O. BOX 420

FAIRTON, NJ  08320

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LETTER FROM INSIDE- AUGUST 2012