Please Let Me Stay

[Lewis]

Inmate Gets Arrested Again After Refusing To Leave Jail
Getting someone to leave jail rarely takes more effort than taking him in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...f99e4b0b7a963392739?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

 

[AirDancer]

I don't find this particular case to be all that unusual.

Jail/prison offers a fairly secure place for some people. Three meals a day, a bed ... security from the outside world.

Family members in law enforcement have mentioned in passing the number of people who had been released from jail/prison, only to commit another crime in order to return to jail. When these people are questioned as to why they would do such a thing, especially in light of having just regained their freedom, and the people all reply a version of the same answer: "I don't know how to live, how to be, on the outside. Jail is home; it's safe."

 

[Blake]

I have two cousins who are correctional officers. They've told me plenty of stories of inmates who accrue charges near the end of their sentence, or evil kill themselves outright when release time is around the corner. For a lot of prisoners, jail is all they know. At least there's three hots and a cot to look forward to. But outside? You can't vote, can't find a job, you likely don't have any prospects on gainful employment or a place to stay, nothing. That's scary.

Lately I've been looking online for how to send letters to prisoners, but I haven't had any luck. Every system I've found requests an inmate number, and I don't want to mail anyone in particular, but I'd like to send letters of hope and light and encouragement to the pen and trust in faith that they find themselves in the right hands. If anyone can help me out with that, feel free to PM me.

 

[AirDancer]

Lately I've been looking online for how to send letters to prisoners, but I haven't had any luck. Every system I've found requests an inmate number, and I don't want to mail anyone in particular, but I'd like to send letters of hope and light and encouragement to the pen and trust in faith that they find themselves in the right hands. If anyone can help me out with that, feel free to PM me.

Find a prison ministry in your area & talk with someone there. There are some inmates who receive no communications from the outside; in many ways, they've been forgotten/dismissed by their family/friends. You might even consider volunteering with a prison ministry. It would be another way to help those who are incarcerated.

 

[Blake]

Find a prison ministry in your area & talk with someone there. There are some inmates who receive no communications from the outside; in many ways, they've been forgotten/dismissed by their family/friends. You might even consider volunteering with a prison ministry. It would be another way to help those who are incarcerated.

I've been thinking on it but I don't know if I'm quite ready for that leap, mainly because I don't want that to be something I start up and don't finish. That'd be a terrible thing to do. Letters may be more impersonal, but it's something I can do right now. Next step I suppose is to find a prison ministry.

 

[AirDancer]

I've been thinking on it but I don't know if I'm quite ready for that leap, mainly because I don't want that to be something I start up and don't finish. That'd be a terrible thing to do. Letters may be more impersonal, but it's something I can do right now. Next step I suppose is to find a prison ministry.

Your minister might have some information about local or nearby prison ministries.

 

[Lewis]

But outside? You can't vote,

Thst is a crazy law and it needs to be overturned

 

[th1b.taylor]

Lewis, I love the hair but return to that doctor and demand the return of your skin pigmentation, you make an ugly white boy!

When I was a member of the Glory Bound Prison Ministry we dealt with a gentleman we dubbed Smiling Mike. Mike was in prison for killing a Police Officer by, while the Biker Gang held the Officer captive, placing a pistol between his eyes and blowing his brains out the rear of his head.

At the time of Mike's trial, we had a moratorium on the Death Penalty in Texas, giving Mike, 17 when he did the crime, a Life Sentence.

When Mike was released on Life enduring Parole and the ministry, he had been 35 years inside the Walls and was confined in the Walls Unit at the time I met him.

When Mike was released he was, for a year or better, plagued by the thought of, "all I need do is hold up a Seven Eleven and I can go home." Mike was institutionalized! Only because a bunch of freeky Christians, working with him from day to day did Mike succeed. It took the people in the Ministry signing for him to get any kind of a job and Mike only eft the Walls Unit because he knew our Ministry was committed to serving him.

It can be very comforting for a man to know he is not responsible for himself and it can be very discomforting to know that the last time you were responsible for yourself, you were screwing the pooch so badly that you were arrested and thrown into the confinement of a Jail.

This man wants to live right but feels he is unable to do so alone, at least that is one possibility that I see.

 

[Lewis]

Taylor wrote
Lewis, I love the hair but return to that doctor and demand the return of your skin pigmentation, you make an ugly white boy!

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[jasonc]

Thst is a crazy law and it needs to be overturned

so they after stealing. et all should have their 2 amendment rights restored ? felony. states are to restore to the ex-kon the right to vote.

some lines have been passed an cant be undone

 

[Lewis]

Jason, give me a break man, if they did their time let them vote, give me break dude. And then they won't let them get jobs and the jail becomes a revolving door.

 

[jasonc]

Jason, give me a break man, if they did their time let them vote, give me break dude. And then they won't let them get jobs and the jail becomes a revolving door.

I never said that they shouldn't only that the state they live is the one that must restore it. we aren't federally registered to vote .I merely say that they forever if a felon lose the right to own, a gun. never ever to be soldier, or leo.
they just are slow to restore those rights. which I think is silly.

 

[Lewis]

Jason here in Philly and other places judges will tell you in court years ago, if you join the Army you will do no jail time, but if you don't you are going to do these 5 years. Many people who broke the law have given their lives for this twisted country.

 

[Brother Mike]

so they after stealing. et all should have their 2 amendment rights restored ? felony. states are to restore to the ex-kon the right to vote.

some lines have been passed an cant be undone

Free people should have the same rights as everyone else. They take away so many things from people getting out of Prison, that it makes it to hard on them, and the groups that are not related to the state impose things on them.
Like being a Truck driver, you can't have had drug offences to be a truck driver. Can't get food stamps, can't work at a whole lot of Job's like banks. A person should have a right to prove themselves, and change.

As for me, I almost bolted out the prison door when they opened it for me. I had ZERO thoughts of wanting to stay.

I've been thinking on it but I don't know if I'm quite ready for that leap, mainly because I don't want that to be something I start up and don't finish. That'd be a terrible thing to do. Letters may be more impersonal, but it's something I can do right now. Next step I suppose is to find a prison ministry.

Not all prison systems allow the use of computers. IL is one of them. That makes it very hard to cherry pick a inmate to write to who wants you to write to them. There is a Major move of power and anointing in Prisons, and large Christian groups there.
your best bet, and a big step is to go to the county Jail and see if you can set up a time to visit inmates for a bible study. it really depends on the Jail, the Staff time, and what groups are already going there. I checked into my own Sheriff department to see if I could set up a time to hold bible studies. I did it while I was locked up, with amazing results, why not again. I have a past felony, so I am not sure how that is going to fly. I already spoke with the Sheriff, and I have two other groups taking up time slots.

Another option (More expensive) is to hand deliver ministry letters to a Prison and have them sent to the inmates. Plan on 3,000 letters. This is How Kenneth Copeland does it, and Joyce Meyers. Joyce sent my prison boxes and boxes of her books that were passed out to everyone. Through that you can get people to write back that want to hear more of the good news.

I was also checking this site out.
http://www.writeaprisoner.com/homepage.aspx

Not sure what that is all about.

Mike.

 

[jasonc]

Jason here in Philly and other places judges will tell you in court years ago, if you join the Army you will do no jail time, but if you don't you are going to do these 5 years. Many people who broke the law have given their lives for this twisted country.

That is old.Google the Launten berg act
If I beat my wife.I end my career
If convicted.the army already has gangs in it.

 

[Lewis]

That is old, but it was being done even in my time like Viet Nam

 

[jasonc]

That is old, but it was being done even in my time like Viet Nam

There was a reason why it stopped.I had platoon sgts,squad leaders in my unit who were charged and convicted in the army of domestic violence.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I think the Colson Center does a lot of prison reform work, including programs to help ex-inmates once they're out in society again.

I just can't imagine...I live in a small, southern town. People around here thought I was a convicted felon, so they made my life a living hell (a simple background check would have helped prevent a lot of this, lol). If I actually had a felony...ugh. I think we should focus on freeing people from bondage, not continually shaming them.

 

[Lewis]

There was a reason why it stopped.I had platoon sgts,squad leaders in my unit who were charged and convicted in the army of domestic violence.

But he is already in, I am talking about people on the street man.

 

[jasonc]

But he is already in, I am talking about people on the street man.

They are retired. That was in the early 90s.do that now.it's over.I wouldn't want to raise adult kids who have been jailed and anger issues.I have that problem already with men who have no record.